The Good Body Tapa blanda - 2005
de Eve Ensler
The author of the international sensation "The Vagina Monologues," is back, this time to rock views of what it means to have a "good body." She is joined by the voices of women from L.A. to Kabul, whose obsessions are also laid bare.
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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."
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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 arejust 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.
Detalles
- Título The Good Body
- Autor Eve Ensler
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición Reprint
- Páginas 112
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Villard Books, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación 2005-11-08
- ISBN 9780812974737 / 0812974735
- Peso 0.3 libras (0.14 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.02 x 5.18 x 0.36 pulgadas (20.37 x 13.16 x 0.91 cm)
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Temas
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Women, Body, Human
- Dewey Decimal Code 812.54
Extracto
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Ingram Advance, 11/01/2005, Page 113
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