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Botox, bulimia, breast implants: Eve Ensler, author of the international sensation The Vagina Monologues, is back, this time to rock our view of what it means to have a “good body.” “In the 1950s,” Eve writes, girls were “pretty, perky. They had a blond Clairol wave in their hair. They wore girdles and waist-pinchers. . . . In recent years good girls join the army. They climb the corporate ladder. They go to the gym. . . . They wear painful pointy shoes. They don’t eat too much. They . . . don’t eat at all. They stay perfect. They stay thin. I could never be good.” The Good Body starts with Eve’s tortured relationship with her own “post-forties” stomach and her skirmishes with everything from Ab Rollers to fad diets and fascistic trainers in an attempt get the “flabby badness” out. As Eve hungrily seeks self-acceptance, she is joined by the voices of women from L.A. to Kabul, whose obsessions are also laid bare: A young Latina candidly critiques her humiliating “spread,” a stubborn layer of fat that she calls “a second pair of thighs.” The wife of a plastic surgeon recounts being systematically reconstructed–inch by inch–by her “perfectionist” husband. An aging magazine executive, still haunted by her mother’s long-ago criticism, describes her desperate pursuit of youth as she relentlessly does sit-ups. Along the way, Eve also introduces us to women who have found a hard-won peace with their bodies: an African mother who celebrates each individual body as signs of nature’s diversity; an Indian woman who transcends “treadmill mania” and delights in her plump cheeks and curves; and a veiled Afghani woman who is willing to risk imprisonment for a taste of ice cream. These are just a few of the inspiring stories woven through Eve’s global journey from obsession to enlightenment. Ultimately, these monologues become a personal wake-up call from Eve to love the “good bodies” we inhabit. From the Hardcover edition.

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These stories ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 12 19:35:19 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 05:34:25 -0700 2009 "I'm stepping off the capitalist treadmill. I am going to take a deep breath and find a way to survive not being flat or perfect. I am inviting you to join me, to stop trying to be anything, anyone other than who you are."

Ensler explores Bombay to Beverly Hills, delivering nar...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Apr 10 07:04:52 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 04:24:00 -0700 2009 'I am going to take a deep breath and find a way to survive not being flat or perfect. I am inviting you to join me, to stop tryin...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Apr 20 20:53:13 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 14:56:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Thu Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 11:19:52 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 11:32:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Fri Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Sat Jan 10 18:14:01 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 18:21:57 -0800 2009 1 ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 10:06:04 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 08:30:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 05 06:23:51 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 05 06:30:47 -0800 2008 It was certainly written to be performed; would it have been better if I had seen it as a performance?
The point of the book can be made in less than a paragrap...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 22 03:57:15 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 03:59:45 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Dec 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 17:32:43 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 17:38:32 -0800 2008 The Vagina Monologues, but I liked it. An interesting but not compelling commentary on womens' bodies and self-image.]]> 5 0 true false Sat Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 03:04:09 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 03:45:14 -0700 2008 1 Graceann's "Good Body" Review"

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