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Summary: If only our V's could talk...
Review: ...it would have told us how it feels during menstrual period, how it wants to be dressed up & decorated, how it wants to be called/addressed, how it wants to pleased, & a lot of other things we can & cannot imagine.More than anything else, I believe the author's purpose in creating this book is for women to be comfortable with their private parts & to accept their feminine desires & needs are jsut as normal.
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Summary: Brilliant! Brilliant!! Brilliant!!!
Review: My best friend called me one day and told me about this book and how incredible it was and how moving and riveting and how it was the best book I would ever read. The amazing part of this is that my best friend is a heterosexual male. I borrowed his copy and devoured the book in an evening. He was right. This is one of the best books I have ever read or ever will read. Eve Ensler interviewed hundreds of women and reported and interpreted their stories, their thoughts, their beliefs, their souls, their fears, and their strengths. She deals with rape, shame, masturbation, childbirth, and many other topics. The wonderful thing is that she deals with these sensitive areas with humor, grace, understanding, and empathy. This is a work of celebration - celebration of women, celebration of survival, celebration of life, celebration of the vagina.
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Summary: What an experience!
Review: I was completely taken off guard (in a good way) by how candid this book is. I have never heard or read anything like it before. I have passed it on to friends and family members who have raved about it. It is happy, sad and angry all at once. I got so wrapped up in it that I read the whole thing the night I received it. I can only say that I have never experienced anything like it.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: I've missed the play several times and was delighted to find this in a bookstore... while looking for something else. It's an easy read but profound and meaningful... a must for all women.
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Summary: can you say VAGINA??
Review: I saw the show in L.A and fell in love with it. I decided that I should go out and buy them for an audition I have coming up. A lot of people don't realize that tghe monologues that are ahown aren't the whole thing, so, when you buy them, you're in for even more then just seeing them. THis pieve is wonderful, riviting, and would make any women proud of the "things" she has to deal with. (Check out my angry Vagina!)
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Summary: Makes me proud to be a woman
Review: I read The Vagina Monologues based on the recommendation of two of my friends. They had both read it and said it was a book worth reading. I agree. I started it and finished it within a weekend. The Vagina Monologues deals with how society treats the topic of womens sexuality. It was gripping in the various descriptions of how women saw it: "down there", "coochie snorcher", "Itsy bitsy". Eve Ensler has done a remarkable job of putting together a book that deals with a subject that is considered taboo in most of our society. Many people would be embarressed to read this book, but it should be read. It promotes a feeling of satisfaction that I am a woman. Her description of childbirth, of how a young woman reacted after being raped, these are just but two of the highlights of this book. The letters from women and men who had been to the performances, or who were putting on the performances for V-day were also insightful. Many thanks to Eve Ensler for such a good book.
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Summary: The Truth about Vaginas
Review: I had never heard of Vagina Monologues until my husband came home one day saying that he and several friends had seen the play. They couldn't stop talking about it. My husband was so excited about the Monologues that he bought the book and I read it. Vaginas are not openly discussed in everyday life. There is plenty of talk about penises, but little about vaginas. Men talk about "(...)" but the term has a degenerative feel to it, and thoughts about "(...)" generally refer to sex, not the more intimate organ itself. The whole vagina experience is somehow "hidden"; maybe we it is because we can't see our own, unless we use a mirror and much acrobatics. This is exactly the juxtaposition that Eve and Gloria address. Two women who have dedicated themselves to opening the forbidden topic. Their purpose is to bring to life this buried topic and make it bloom. The way in which they do it is unique - a platform of monologues, essentially composed by compiling a bunch of real life interviews from hundreds of women. And this is precisely what makes it so touching. The stories are sometimes sad, sometimes encouraging, occassionally shocking. The real value in them is that these women have contributed something to society that is extremely personal and often supressed. It helps women to realise that they are not alone in their views of their own vaginas and it is strangely liberating. Why should we hide our vaginas, we come to the conclusion, why not be proud of them? My favourite part is when the women are asked if they could dress their vagina what would it wear? WHAT A QUESTION! Even to come up with such a question inspires insightful thought and provoking answers. Needless to say, this book was recommended immediately to my mother. So why only four stars, you may ask. Simple .... I wish I'd seen the play instead!
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Summary: Best Book I Have Ever Read
Review: This book captures the experience of being a woman better than anything I have ever encountered. As I went through the book, I found that I identified with so many points, so many thoughts and experiences...it is incredible. I have given this book to many friends as gifts, and have lent out my personal copy countless times. I highly recommend this book to anyone.
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Summary: Every woman should read this
Review: At my book club meeting a couple months ago, one of the members (who had just returned from a trip to London) was raving about this one-woman show she saw. I had heard of The Vagina Monologues before but couldn't recall exactly what it was about. Well, this member gave us all the gritty details and sparked quite a discussion about it. And with us all being such book nuts, we had to know, "Is there a book?" Reading The Vagina Monologues left me with a new feeling of empowerment and happiness at being born a woman. The women Eve Ensler interviewed for the essays came across as strong individuals -- simply because they survived. The essays cover a wide variety of topics such as birth, sex, rape, genital mutilation, and menstruation. All different types of women were interviewed, and their stories will make you laugh, cry, and shout with joy. Plus, reading the letters in the back of the book from people who attended the live performances was very moving. Just hearing how the show affected the audience (men and women alike) was enough to see its worth. I thank Eve Ensler for creating The Vagina Monologues and for believing in the power, uniqueness, gentleness and strength of women. Makes me want to start my own show. And to quote one of the women who directed the play, "Viva Vagina!"
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Summary: A Triumph
Review: The Vagina Monologues is a wonder to read, fascinating in its intricacies of the female body and its connection to the psyche. It brought me toward comfort with my own body, and opened my mind to the issues of feminism and female empowerment. The play is not at all pornographic, but sensual and poignant in its heartbreak and its uplifting joy. Now I must see it performed, as that is bound to be ten times more powerful!
Other favorite plays that deal with feminist issues include (but of course are nowhere near limited to) Masterpieces by Sarah Daniels, and Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off by Liz Lochead.
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