|
The Vagina Monologues | 
 enlarge | Author: Eve Ensler
Publisher: Villard
Category: Book
List Price: $13.95
Buy New: $5.99
You Save: $7.96 (57%)
New (37) Used (43) Collectible (1) from $5.39
Rating:  reviews
Sales Rank: 51274
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Pages: 272
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0345498607
Dewey Decimal Number: 812.54
EAN: 9780345498601
ASIN: 0345498607
Publication Date: December 26, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
| |
| Features:
| • | ISBN13: 9780345498601 | | • | Condition: New | | • | Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed |
|
| Also Available In:
|
| Similar Items:
| |
| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com Review
"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.
Product Description
"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.
|
| Customer Reviews:
 The Vagina Monologues July 19, 2010
becky2183
One of the most amazing and insightful books I have ever read. I love the different perspectives! Everyone will relate to some part of this book. I will definitely be rereading this one again.
I love it May 10, 2010
A. M. Brinkley (Missouri)
Wow. What else can you say for The Vagina Monologues? In the book "taboo" things are brought up...our vaginas, menstrual periods, abuse... I strongly encourage any woman to read this book. I don't want to talk about it much as when you read it I want you to be moved as much as I was.
Made me wish I had one, too December 29, 2009
Jack Of Alltrades (Loth Ethtadoth Unidoth)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
This was so great, especially the "good rape" of the 13-year old girl by an older woman twice her age who plies her with vodka then rapes her. I didn't realize pedophilia was "good" when women committed it but now I understand. What an uplifting book!
|
|
|
| |
