Author of "Monologues of the vagina" and founder of the global movement V-Day -to curb violence against women and girls-, Ensler has dedicated her life to the woman's body: how to talk about it, how to protect it and value it . She talks about the deeply intimate and painful relationship that she has with her own body and how it changed throughout her life: a disconnection caused by the sexual abuse of her father and the distance from her mother. "Because I did not, I could not inhabit my body," he writes, "I could not feel or know his pain." After traveling to 60 countries and living with women who "had experienced violence and suffering," Ensler thought. I had heard everything, but nothing prepared her for the brutality of the Congo. The protracted war has claimed eight million lives and led to the rape and torture of hundreds of thousands of women. She was building an emergency wom...read more
