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“Eve Ensler can soar to Rabelaisian heights or move us with quiet compassion. . . . She may not save the world, but what other playwrights even think of trying?”
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“Spellbinding, funny, and almost unbearably moving . . . It is both a work of art and an incisive piece of cultural history, a poem and a polemic, a performance and a balm and a benediction.”
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“The monologues are part of Eve Ensler’s crusade to wipe out the shame and embarrassment that many women still associate with their bodies or their sexuality. [They] are both a celebration of women’s sexuality and a condemnation of its violation.”
–The New York Times

“Women have entrusted Eve with their most intimate experiences. . . . I think readers, men as well as women, will emerge from these pages feeling more free within themselves–and about each other.”
–GLORIA STEINEM




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Review

Praise for Eve Ensler:
“Eve Ensler can soar to Rabelaisian heights or move us with quiet compassion. . . . She may not save the world, but what other playwrights even think of trying?”
Time

Acclaim for The Vagina Monologues

“Spellbinding, funny, and almost unbearably moving . . . It is both a work of art and an incisive piece of cultural history, a poem and a polemic, a performance and a balm and a benediction.”
Variety

“The monologues are part of Eve Ensler’s crusade to wipe out the shame and embarrassment that many women still associate with their bodies or their sexuality. [They] are both a celebration of women’s sexuality and a condemnation of its violation.”
–The New York Times

“Women have entrusted Eve with their most intimate experiences. . . . I think readers, men as well as women, will emerge from these pages feeling more free within themselves–and about each other.”
–GLORIA STEINEM




From the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 112 pages
  • Publisher: Villard (November 8, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0812974735
  • ISBN-13: 978-0812974737
  • Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #130,666 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, February 8, 2005
This review is from: The Good Body (Hardcover)
Wow! I had never read Eve Ensler before. This book is a little gem of a look at women and how we view our bodies. The author starts off by saying "while there is a war in Iraq, I am worried about my tummy".

For women who do not have image issues (all 3 of you) this book will seem silly, but for the rest of us who are oh-so conscious of our bodies and especially their faults, this book will hit home.

A series of vignettes from various women, interwoven with Eve Ensler's comments and own views, this book is loaded with insight into how women think.

My only negative. It is way too short.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The Good Book, March 10, 2005
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Eve Ensler is brilliant. Just as I was leaving the library I happened to see her name on a bright red book and immediately picked it up. I think I had half of the book read by the time I got home. (It's not a long book, by any means)
Whether undergoing Botox or living under burkhas, women of all cultures and backgrounds feel compelled to change the way they look in order to fit in with their particular culture. In The Good Body, Ensler explores Bombay to Beverly Hills. Delivering narratives collected in locker rooms, cell blocks, boardrooms, and bedrooms, Ensler frames their stories with her own personal journey from a self-loathing teenager to a (sometimes) self-accepting adult.
Some of the monologues in The Good Body are based on well-known women like Helen Gurley Brown who, at the age of 80, still does two hundred situps a day. Those monologues, which grew out of a series of conversations with each of these fascinating women, are not recorded interviews, but interpretations of the lives they offered me. Some of the other characters are based on real lives, real stories. Many are invented.
By the end of the book I feel empowered. I feel as if I don't need to continue this way of living where I constantly feel fat. Then I remember I'm living in the real world and unfortunately, size matters.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A great read if..., February 5, 2005
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...you can identify with the theme. A good read if you can't.
Like the Vagina Monologues, the author, through compelling, candid and touching "skits", urges the readers to release the phantasms of shame, guilt, obsession around their body images.
Ensler identifies distorted self-images as more than a trend or epidemic, but as a common attitude among many women, one that often leads to self-hatred and in many cases, self-mutilation.
The Good Body is a cry against the insanity of the perfect ideals to which women compare themselves, a plea to stop the rampant capitalism associated with weight and beauty, and an appeal to women to love themselves.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliance, in Ensler Form
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4.0 out of 5 stars You've been waiting for this.
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