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 /5(54). With The Good Body, Eve Ensler turns her unique eye to the rest of the female form. Whether undergoing botox injections or living beneath burqas, women of all cultures and backgrounds feel compelled to change the way they look in order to fit in. The Good Body merges cross-cultural explorations with Eve’s own personal journey coming to terms with her “less-than-flat, post-forties . 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 .
Eve Ensler talked about her book [The Good Body], published by Villard. It is an examination of the various ways in which women view their bodies based on society's view of what makes a good body. In her preface to The Good Body, Eve Ensler responsibly explains her choice to write a play about her stomach when compelling world issues such as the war in Iraq or climate change need attending to. Her list of possible, and probable, reasons declares that she wrote the play precisely because women across the globe are so preoccupied with fixing their bodies that they have little energy left. If you appreciate The Vagina Monologues, then you will really love its mild-mannered sister, The Good Body by Eve Ensler. Though I have not read the script for the Monologues, I suspect the two plays are written in a very similar www.doorway.ru little to no stage cues, The Good Body reads like a book written in the first person, each chapter a new www.doorway.ru this one, Eve herself is a character.
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.”. Excerpt: 'The Good Body'. Nov. 15, -- -- Eve Ensler, author of the international sensation "The Vagina Monologues," explores what has driven women to strive for physical perfection from the. The Good Body. 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 s,” Eve writes, girls were “pretty, perky. They had a blond Clairol wave in their hair.
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