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I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World | 
 enlarge | Author: Eve Ensler
Publisher: Villard
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 18062
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 1400061040
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.433
EAN: 9781400061044
ASIN: 1400061040
Publication Date: February 9, 2010
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Product Description
In this daring, provocative, and insightful book, bestselling author and internationally acclaimed playwright Eve Ensler writes fictional monologues and stories inspired by girls around the globe. Moving through a world of topics and emotions, these voices are fierce, alive, tender, complicated, imaginative, and smart. Girls today often find themselves in a struggle between remaining strong and true to themselves and conforming to society’s expectations in an attempt to please. They are taught not to be too intense, too passionate, too smart, too caring, too open. They are encouraged to shut down their instincts, their outrage, their desires and their dreams, to be polite, to obey the rules. I Am an Emotional Creature is a celebration of the authentic voice inside every girl and an inspiring call to action for girls everywhere to speak up, follow their dreams, and become the women they were always meant to be.
Among the girls Ensler creates are an American who struggles with peer pressure in a suburban high school; an anorexic blogging as she eats less and less; a Masai girl from Kenya unwilling to endure female genital mutilation; a Bulgarian sex slave, no more than fifteen, a Chinese factory worker making Barbies; an Iranian student who is tricked into a nose job; a pregnant girl trying to decide if she should keep her baby.
Through rants, poetry, questions, and facts, we come to understand the universality of girls everywhere: their resiliency, their wildness, their pain, their fears, their secrets, and their triumphs. I Am an Emotional Creature is a call, a reckoning, an education, an act of empowerment for girls, and an illumination for parents and for us all.
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 Breathtaking. Fascinating. Informative. Empowering May 12, 2010
Rejoice! (Maui)
Eve Ensler is brilliant. This poetry is so profound. I rarely read poetry and yet I was entranced throughout her whole book. Ensler brings up topics that need light shed on them such as the slave like conditions of the young Asian workers who make Barbie Dolls. Ensler tackles issues we and our sisters deal with. Thank you Eve Ensler! Highly Recommended.
eve ensler opens our eyes again April 28, 2010
Susan Pelican (vallejo, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this book is easy to read and understand and pretty mindblowing.
We look at the universal message to girls: please others-- and understand
more about ourselves. A must read and think about--
For Girls Everywhere April 23, 2010
Michael Dorenzo (Santa Cruz, CA)
I ordered this book after listening to Ms. Engler's talk and performance of the piece "I am an emotional creature" on TED Talks via You Tube. It was sent to me by one of my "girls" on the east coast who works at Cornell University and who sent it to all her girls, both female and male. I quickly sent it to all of mine.
I have mentored girls through my work at UCSC and in my community and family and it always brings me such joy to be around them...Hearing her perform the poem from which the book gets its name simply rocked my world. I couldn't wait to order the book.
It addresses in the most direct way the girl in all of us...that most precious of resources that we tend to abandon, repress, abuse and disown in so many ways and in accordance with so many cultural directives. It is a beautiful articulation of the wild, creative, dangerous, indomitable feminine--both an affirmation and a call to action.
I'd like to give the book to all the girls I know. I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World
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