Eve Ensler

From the bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues and one of Newsweek’s 150 Women Who Changed the World, a visionary memoir of separation and connection—to the body, the self, and the worldPlaywright, author, and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to the female body—how to talk about it, how to protect and value it. Yet she spent much of her life disassociated from her own body—a disconnection brought on by her father’s sexual abuse and her mother’s remoteness. “Because I did not, could not inhabit my body or the Earth,” she writes, “I could not feel or know their pain.”But Ensler is shocked out of her distance. While working in the Congo, she is shattered to encounter the horrific rape and violence inflicted on the women there. Soon after, she is diagnosed with uterine cancer, and through months of harrowing treatment, she is forced to become first and foremost a body—pricked, punctured, cut, scanned. It is then that all distance is erased. As she connects her own illness to the devastation of the earth, her life force to the resilience of humanity, she is finally, fully—and gratefully—joined to the body of the world.Unflinching, generous, and inspiring, Ensler calls on us all to embody our connection to and responsibility for the world.http://us.macmillan.com/inthebodyofth...

A landmark in women's empowerment--as relevant as ever in the age of #MeToo--that honors female sexuality in all its complexityIt's been more than twenty years since Eve Ensler's international sensation The Vagina Monologues gave birth to V-Day, the radical, global grassroots movement to end violence against women and girls. This special edition features six never-before-published monologues, a new foreword by National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson, a new introduction by the author, and a new afterword by One Billion Rising director Monique Wilson on the stage phenomenon's global impact. Witty and irreverent, compassionate and wise, this award-winning masterpiece gives voice to real women's deepest fantasies, fears, anger, and pleasure, and calls for a world where all women are safe, equal, free, and alive in their bodies.

Female spoken word artists have become the spokeswomen for a new generation. This demanding oral poetry of the early 21st century has defined a vanguard of lithely muscled voices, women who think and act decisively to create their distinctive and desperately earned realities. The combination of the eminent slam movement and the upsurge of bold underground feminism has created a unique pool of women who verbally challenge society on all fronts. Editor Alix Olson (internationally touring spoken word artist-activist) brought together a variety of astounding spoken word artists for Word Warriors.Included in this collection are Patricia Smith and Eileen Myles, two of our most formidable spoken-word foremothers, Tony-award winners Sarah Jones, Suheir Hammad and Staceyann Chin, recording artists Bitch and Lynn Breedlove from the dyke-punk band Tribe 8, award-winning writer Michelle Tea, and many more. These women join other amazing artists from many different backgrounds to create Word Warriors, a powerful and comprehensive collection of work from the best and brightest female spoken word artists today.

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 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.

WE ARE THE POEMS WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR Voices is an interdisciplinary audio play and campaign grounded in Black women's stories to unify the vision of ending violence against women across the African Continent and African Diaspora. Its goal is to use art to embody and inspire solidarity-making in the collective imagination. Over two years of gathering stories, engaging in collective study, and collaborating with Black women and non-binary actors and musicians across the African continent and diaspora led to creation of this audioplay. Told through monologue, song, and poetry, Voices provides a unique space for people to gather, engage the meaning of return and diaspora, and envision a world where African women are collaborating and loving each other across cultures, borders, and customs.

(ebook Welsh translation performed in 2004 and 2024 of Eve Ensler's international phenomenon The Vagina Monologues)FERSIWN ELYFRPan ysgrifennwyd a llwyfannwyd The Vagina Monologues am y tro cyntaf yn 1996, fe'i croesawyd fel un o'r dramâu mwyaf beiddgar a thrawiadol am ddegawdau. Yn seiliedig ar gyfres o gyfweliadau a gynhaliwyd gyda nifer o ferched, mae'r gyfres hon o ymsonau - sydd yn eu tro'n ddoniol, yn flysig, yn frawychus, neu'n dorcalonnus - yn ddathliad o rywioldeb merched yn ogystal ag yn ergyd wleidyddol ffeministaidd yn erbyn trais.Cyfieithwyd y ddrama i'r Gymraeg gan Sharon Morgan a'i llwyfannu yn 2004, gan fynd ar daith o amgylch Cymru; ond dim ond nawr, ugain mlynedd yn ddiweddarach, mae hi'n cael ei chyhoeddi am y tro cyntaf un."Theatr ar ei orau - sioe bwysig, digyfaddawd a doniol tu hwnt." - Ani GlassAm bob llyfr a werthir, bydd cyfraniad o£1.00 yn cael ei wneud at Gymorth i Ferched Cymru (Rhif Elusen Cofrestredig 1140962).

Bu kitap içinizdeki kiza, yani duygusal bir yaratik olan varliginiza sesleniyor ve ona istedigi hizda ilerlemesini, istedigi adimlari atmasini, istedigi renkleri giymesini sÖylüyor.Vajina Monologlari'nin yazari Eve Ensler sosyal çevre, yasanilan ülke, etnik kimlik ya da ekonomik düzeyin hiçbir genç kizin sadece bir genç kiz oldugu gerçegini degistirmeyecegi düsüncesiyle onlarin sessiz ve gizli kalmis dünyasini tüm dünyaya haykiriyor. Ve onlarin da haykirmasini ç Kizlarin Gizli Yasami Özgürce mini etek giymek isteyen, aile ve toplum baskisi gÖren, anoreksiyadan kurtulmaya çalisan, açlikla mücadele eden, seks kÖlesi yapilan, siddet gÖren ya da sadece kabul gÖrmeye ve kendi duygusal benligini yasamaya çalisan genç kizlarin gizli yasamina, onlarin sakli kalmis iç dünyasina tutulan bir ayna niteliginde.Sayfa 184Baski 2013 Türkç Inkilap Kitabevi

Ce recueil rassemble des textes écrits par une cinquantaine d'écrivaines et écrivains américains, sous la direction d'Eve Ensler et Mollie Doyle, pour servir de base à l'organisation d'événements contre les violences faites aux femmes et aux filles. Les bénéfices de la vente de ce livre parlant seront versés à La Cité de la Joie, le centre révolutionnaire fondé par Eve Ensler et le Dr Denis Mukwege, prix Nobel de la Paix, où trouvent refuge et soutien les victimes de viols de guerre en République Démocratique du Congo."Parler des violences faites aux femmes, parce que c'est un problème qui est au cœur même de ce monde et dont on ne parle pourtant toujours pas, qu'on ne voit pas, auquel on ne donne pas de poids ou de sens. Pour que les mots brisent l'engourdissement et la négation, la dissociation et la distance, les mensonges." E.E.Ce livre audio a été honoré de la Plume d'Or du Grand Prix du livre audio 2022 de La plume de Paon.

Io sono un’esplosione è il viaggio di un’attivista attraverso le ferite del nostro tempo, con l'intento di ritrovare una connessione, come individui, a un più alto obiettivo comune. Nel corso della sua quarantennale esperienza di lotta, V (il nome che Eve Ensler si è attribuita dopo aver abbandonato quello del padre violento) si è occupata di temi cruciali del nostro dalle molestie e gli abusi degli uomini sulle donne, alle tragedie dell'AIDS e del Covid-19, fino al cambiamento climatico e alla vittoria di Trump in America. In tutti questi casi, la sfera pubblica si intreccia indissolubilmente con quella privata, ecco perché i suoi racconti prendono spesso le mosse da storie la sua di figlia abusata, quella di altre donne violentate durante i conflitti per le risorse minerarie della Repubblica democratica del Congo, quelle di chi ha perso il lavoro durante la pandemia oppure di coloro che hanno contribuito a far cadere il muro di Berlino. In questo incessante movimento dall’io al noi, Io sono un’esplosione prende la forma di una raccolta di prose, poesie, sogni, lettere e piccoli i mille modi in cui lo sguardo critico di V si è posato sul mondo, eviscerando e mettendo sotto analisi le sue storture. In modo intimo e introspettivo, ma allo stesso tempo coraggioso e risoluto, questo libro insegna a dare una spinta irrefrenabile al cambiamento, ad amare e a sopravvivere all’amore, a fare i conti con i propri demoni e a riprendere possesso del proprio corpo. Perché se riconosciamo che il male e il dolore personale sono collegati, lottare per qualcosa diventa un modo per curare le ferite più profonde e riscoprirsi liberi.

Des mots pour agir est un recueil d'une cinquantaine de textes d'autrices et d'auteurs américains remarquables à qui Eve Ensler et Mollie Doyle ont demandé d'écrire des "Souvenirs, monologues, pamphlets et prières", pour être lus à l'occasion du festival de théâtre et du film « Until the Violence Stops » organisé, en juin 2006, à New York, pour soutenir le mouvement V-Day. L'objectif de ce mouvement, créé par Eve Ensler, est d'amener le problème des violences faites aux femmes sur le devant de la scène et de faire prendre conscience qu'elles sont un fléau mondial. Ces textes forts, bouleversants, personnels souvent, parmi lesquels ceux de Eve Ensler et Mollie Doyle, Maya Angelou, Carol Gilligan, Robin Morgan, Alice Walker, Jane Fonda, sont accompagnés d'une « invitation à agir » sous forme de conseils pour organiser d'autres événements du même type. L'édition française du recueil réalisée en 2009 est une version augmentée, avec des textes de Nicole Ameline, Taslima Nasreen, Rama Yade, Charles Berling et Antoinette Fouque.