The Vagina Monologues
by Eve Ensler
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Author: Eve EnslerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-12-26
ISBN: 0345498607
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Villard
Book Reviews of The Vagina Monologues
Book Review: Not for every woman- but definitely for me!
Summary: 5 Stars
I'd heard of this book and of several performances from many friends and I finally got a chance to read it myself when my (lesbian) roommate was given it for Christmas and brought it back to school with her. We ended up reading it out loud to each other as bedtime stories every night until we finished the book. Some chapters and topics were hard to vocalize but since we were reading it to each other we always had someone else to talk to about the feelings and issues. I think alot of people would get more out of the book if they had seen performances of it or had read it aloud. I can understand why people think the book isn't what they thought it should be. However, every story, no matter how little it had to do with my own personal experiences, made me feel better about me and made me want to go out and help others.
If readers begin to read expecting to be changed, they will be disappointed. Change usually happens when unexpected things happen to us and we react. Open minds are a must. I also wouldn't let anybody under the age of 14 or 15 read it.
Summary of The Vagina Monologues
"I was worried about vaginas. I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don't think about them. . . . So I decided to talk to women about their vaginas, to do vagina interviews, which became vagina monologues. I talked with over two hundred women. I talked to old women, young women, married women, single women, lesbians, college professors, actors, corporate professionals, sex workers, African American women, Hispanic women, Asian American women, Native American women, Caucasian women, Jewish women. At first women were reluctant to talk. They were a little shy. But once they got going, you couldn't stop them."So begins Eve Ensler's hilarious, eye-opening tour into the last frontier, the forbidden zone at the heart of every woman. Adapted from the award-winning one-woman show that's rocked audiences around the world, this groundbreaking book gives voice to a chorus of lusty, outrageous, poignant, and thoroughly human stories, transforming the question mark hovering over the female anatomy into a permanent victory sign. With laughter and compassion, Ensler transports her audiences to a world we've never dared to know, guaranteeing that no one who reads The Vagina Monologues will ever look at a woman's body the same way again.
"I say vagina because I want people to respond," says playwright Eve Ensler, creator of the hilarious, disturbing soliloquies in The Vagina Monologues, a book based on her one-woman play. And respond they do--with horror, anger, censure, and sparks of wonder and pleasure. Ensler is on a fervent mission to elevate and celebrate this much mumbled-about body part. She asked hundreds of women of all ages a series of questions about their vaginas (What do you call it? How would you dress it?) that prompt some wondrous answers. Standouts among the euphemisms are tamale, split knish, choochi snorcher, Gladys Siegelman--Gladys Siegelman?--and, of course, that old standby "down there." "Down there?" asks a composite character springing from several older women. "I haven't been down there since 1953. No, it had nothing to do with [American president] Eisenhower." Two of the most powerful pieces include a jagged poem stitched together from the memories of a Bosnian woman raped by soldiers and an American woman sexually abused as a child who reclaims her vagina as a place of wild joy.
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