Bibliograph

In the body of the world, a memoir, Eve Ensler

Type

Label

In the body of the world, a memoir, Eve Ensler

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

In the body of the world

Oclc number

811597425

Responsibility statement

Eve Ensler

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

The author of The Vagina Monologues describes being diagnosed and treated for uterine cancer and how her illness forced her to reconnect with her own body and gave her a better understanding of the resilience of humans

Table Of Contents

Divided -- The beginning of the end, or In your liver -- Dr. Deb, or Congocancer -- Somnolence -- Cancer town -- Dr. Handsome -- What we don't know going into surgery -- This is where you will cross the Uji River -- Two questions -- Uterus = hysteria -- Falling, or Congo stigmata -- Lu -- Here's what's gone -- The stoma -- How'd I get it? -- Circumambulating -- Ice chips -- Patient -- The rupture/the Gulf spill -- Becoming someone else -- Beware of getting the best -- Stages/5.2b -- Infusion suite -- Arts and crafts -- The room with a tree -- A buzz cut -- Getting port -- The chemo isn't for you -- Tara, Kali, and Sue -- Crowd chemo -- The obstruction, or How tree saved me -- I was that girl who was supposed to be dead, or How pot saved me later -- Riding the lion -- Chemo day five -- On the couch next to me -- I love your hair, or The last time I saw my mother -- It was a beach, I think -- Shit -- Rada -- Death and Tami Taylor -- A burning meditation on love -- My mother dies -- De-ported -- Live by the vagina, die by the vagina -- Farting for Cindy -- It wasn't a foreboding -- Congo incontinent -- Leaking -- She will live -- Sue -- Joy -- Mother -- Second wind

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