Eve Ensler
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 â€œgood body.â€ â€œIn the 1950s,â€ Eve writes, girls were â€œpretty, 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 donâ€™t eat too much. They . . . donâ€™t eat at all. They stay perfect. They stay thin. I could never be good.â€,The Good Body ,starts with Eveâ€™s tortured relationship with her own â€œpost-fortiesâ€ stomach and her skirmishes with everything from Ab Rollers to fad diets and fascistic trainers in an attempt get the â€œflabby badnessâ€ 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 â€œspread,â€ a stubborn layer of fat that she calls â€œa second pair of thighs.â€ The wife of a plastic surgeon recounts being systematically reconstructedâ€“inch by inchâ€“by her â€œperfectionistâ€ husband. An aging magazine executive, still haunted by her motherâ€™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 natureâ€™s diversity; an Indian woman who transcends â€œtreadmill maniaâ€ 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 Eveâ€™s global journey from obsession to enlightenment. Ultimately, these monologues become a personal wake-up call from Eve to love the â€œgood bodiesâ€ we inhabit.,From the Hardcover edition.
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The Good Body