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In this daring book, internationally acclaimed author and playwright Eve Ensler offers fictional monologues and stories inspired by girls around the globe. Fierce, tender, and smart, I Am an Emotional Creature is a celebration of the authentic voice inside every girl and an inspiring call to action for girls everywhere to speak up, follow their dreams, and become the women they were always meant to be.
This paperback edition features new material about starting a discussion group based on the book.
This paperback edition features new material about starting a discussion group based on the book.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Like The Vagina Monologues, this book is a collage of composite monologues in poetry and prose. These monologues recreate the pressures on young women to conform, wherever they might be in the world - from middle-class America to Africa to Palestine and Israel. They empathise with the suffering of girls forced into child labour and/or sex slavery and/or military activity. Girl issues range from arranged marriages and genital mutilation to anorexia and cosmetic surgery to the right to wear a short skirt without being raped or to request your partner to wear a condom. This book empathises with and gives voice to girls and young women most of us normally never hear. It is designed to reach out and touch women throughout the world, to encourage them to question and challenge, rather than seek to please and repress the instinctive woman inside. In terms of tone, it ranges from the darkly comic to the deeply moving to the justifiably outraged. While exhorting a rejection of the subject position(s) created for girls and women and a reclaiming of their lives, it simultaneously exposes those subject positions for the sham that they are. It provides insightful analyses of the ethically rudderless upside-down world in which we live and as such constitutes a rejection - emotional, intellectual and spiritual - of cold, mechanical and manipulative macho corporate culture, and a call to unite against it. This is a book to be read quickly and then meditated on slowly. If you are a young woman, read this book and help liberate yourself. If you're not, read it and learn.
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V-Girls Revolution
10 Feb 2010
Format:Hardcover
Eve Ensler is launching her V-Girl Movement with this book. It will be accompanied by a curriculum created by her V-Girls Advisory Circle.
The essence of the book is in the "About" section of her new [...] web site. (Be sure to type "org" or you'll find yourself in misogyny-land!)
I AM AN EMOTIONAL CREATURE is the teenage version of Ms. Ensler's iconic THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES. It is classic Eve Ensler: extreme, dramatic, alive, emotional, and radical.
Her intent is to end the global mandate that conditions girls to please rather than to embrace their authentic voices. She wants us all to "love love love being a girl."
This book will be a great gift for any girl ~ no matter her age ~ who wants to unleash her feminine power and find her authentic voice.
The essence of the book is in the "About" section of her new [...] web site. (Be sure to type "org" or you'll find yourself in misogyny-land!)
I AM AN EMOTIONAL CREATURE is the teenage version of Ms. Ensler's iconic THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES. It is classic Eve Ensler: extreme, dramatic, alive, emotional, and radical.
Her intent is to end the global mandate that conditions girls to please rather than to embrace their authentic voices. She wants us all to "love love love being a girl."
This book will be a great gift for any girl ~ no matter her age ~ who wants to unleash her feminine power and find her authentic voice.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Amazinggg as always!
16 Feb 2010
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I LOVE Eve Ensler and The Vagina Monologues and have very high expectations for her work. She did not disappoint! Even though this book is intended for teenage girls, women of all ages will love it, and will read it over and over again. Read either as an entire book or as pieces, it's incredibly moving and motivational. I would definitely recommend buying it and copies for all the women in your life!
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Bold and powerful
16 Feb 2010
Format:Hardcover
I Am an Emotional Creature is, quite simply, a book of diverse monologues, told by young girls all around the world. Whether these girls' stories are familiar or foreign to you, they all are confronting the complex issue of defining oneself in a world full of contradictions, where girls are told they must be polite and pretty and perfect to fit in, yet are encouraged to be strong and independent and to dream big at the same time. Every girl's story is unique and equally jarring, from the simple confrontation of peer pressure in the average high school to tales of girls sold for sex miles and oceans away. This book is filled with girl stories: those forced to undergo unwanted plastic surgery, working in far-away factories making Barbies, pregnant girls, anorexic girls, and girls just talking. Each story is surprising and alive.
I Am an Emotional Creature is a hybrid in the style in which it is told. Though most of the monologues are straightforward prose, poems and scripts are sprinkled throughout these fictional stories, made even more realistic by the many "Girl Facts" interspersed throughout the book. Ensler captures the essence of being a girl and being human without being trite or even touching on clichés, and the result is a bold, incisive, emotional, and achingly real testament to teen girls and their power and verve. This book will not only make you think, but also quite possibly change the way you think about teen girls today.
I Am an Emotional Creature is a hybrid in the style in which it is told. Though most of the monologues are straightforward prose, poems and scripts are sprinkled throughout these fictional stories, made even more realistic by the many "Girl Facts" interspersed throughout the book. Ensler captures the essence of being a girl and being human without being trite or even touching on clichés, and the result is a bold, incisive, emotional, and achingly real testament to teen girls and their power and verve. This book will not only make you think, but also quite possibly change the way you think about teen girls today.
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