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Title: The Vagina Monologues: The V-Day Edition by Eve Ensler ISBN: 0-375-75698-1 Publisher: Villard Pub. Date: 05 December, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.24 (83 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I wear my "V" pin with pride!!
Comment: I laughed, cried, and wished I could find a bathing suit to fit my coochie snorcher while reading the book. My eyes welled-up when my best grrrl saw the NY performance and Queen Latifah sang UNITY after the Bosnian woman's piece(there wasn't a dry eye in the house, then everyone just went crazy cheering U N I T Y). I laughed, cried, and held my boyfriend's hand while seeing a performance at the college I attended. I long to take my young cousin to the play and hope it will be something she'll treasure forever.
How anyone could say such horrible things about Eve and the monologues is beyond me! #1, Eve didn't "write" the 'logues, she compiled the "stories" from interviews with hundreds of women. #2, the inception of the plays and the book were to increase awareness of vioence against women and raise money to support organizations to ensure safety to these women. #3, the story of the "pedifile" was not told by the 24-year-old, but rather the 13-year-old. #4, the only "gross" piece was the one about rape BECAUSE IT WAS ABOUT A WOMAN WHO WAS RAPED.
Rating: 5
Summary: Vaginas
Comment: This is for the fat vaginas. Hooray!
Rating: 4
Summary: Just not as good as a live performance
Comment: I think the book really misses a lot in the "translation" because seeing Eve Ensler perform the monologues brings the visual and audio inflections that make so many of the pieces work so damn well. The book doesn't allow the reader to hear the long moans and cries of celebration, or the quiet hushed sad tones, or the hand gestures. If at all possible watch her HBO special and if possible buy the HBO tape when it is available.
The most meaningful monologue of me had to do with Bosnia women and the issue of rape. I also like the monologue of the young mother (her daughter in law) giving birth. And the Bob monologue. But I agree 100% with tammyl84 about the monologue about the thirteen year old girl and the adult 24 year old woman who have sex. If this had been a male 24 yr old we would hear (rightly so) demands to prosecute and punish.
And yet, the author in her HBO production went out of her way to speak of and to women who had been sexually abused, raped and taken advantage of by adult men, and that wasn't Ok, yet an adult woman taking sexual advantage of a child was? I wish that monologue had not been included.
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Title:The Vagina Monologues ASIN: B00006673K Publisher: Warner Home Video Pub. Date: 04 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $22.48 |
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Title: Clit Notes: A Sapphic Sampler by Holly Hughes ISBN: 0802133339 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Woman : An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier ISBN: 0385498411 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 15 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Slut! Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation by Leora Tanenbaum ISBN: 0060957409 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Necessary Targets : A Story of Women and War by Eve Ensler ISBN: 0375756035 Publisher: Villard Pub. Date: 23 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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