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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/878789549 Title: In the body of the world : a memoir of cancer and connection Author: Eve Ensler Publisher: New York Picador/Henry Holt and Company, 2014. ©2013. ISBN/ISSN: 9781250043979 1250043972 OCLC:878789549

  
  

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In the body of the world : a memoir of cancer and connection

Author:	Eve Ensler
Publisher:	New York Picador/Henry Holt and Company, 2014. ©2013.
Edition/Format:	Print book : English : First Picador EditionView all editions and formats
Database:	WorldCat
Summary:	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: GENERAL. 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.  Read more...
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Subjects	Ensler, Eve, -- 1953- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography. Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography. View all subjects
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