In the Body of the World

From the best-selling author of The Vagina Monologues and one of Newsweek's 150 Women Who Changed the World comes a vision of connection with the body and world through a memoir of separation and connection to self. Eve Ensler is a playwright, novelist, and activist who has dedicated her life to exploring how to talk about, preserve, and cherish the female body. Despite this, she spent most of her childhood disconnected from her own body, a dissociation exacerbated by her father's sexual abuse and her mother's isolation. After becoming an activist for women's rights in South Africa and traveling to the Congo to work with rape victims, Ensler is diagnosed with uterine cancer. This diagnosis forces her to finally become first and foremost a body: poked, stabbed, sliced, and scanned for months. Then distance is eliminated altogether?