{"product_id":"in-the-body-of-the-world-9781250043979","title":"In the Body of the World","description":"\u003cp\u003ePlaywright, author, and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to the female body--how to talk about it, how to protect and value it. Yet she spent much of her life disassociated from her own body--a disconnection brought on by her father's sexual abuse and her mother's remoteness. Because I did not, could not inhabit my body or the Earth, she writes, I could not feel or know their pain. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut Ensler is shocked out of her distance. While working in the Congo, she is shattered to encounter the horrific rape and violence inflicted on the women there. Soon after, she is diagnosed with uterine cancer, and through months of harrowing treatment, she is forced to become first and foremost a body--pricked, punctured, cut, scanned. It is then that all distance is erased. As she connects her own illness to the devastation of the earth, her life force to the resilience of humanity, she is finally, fully--and gratefully--joined to the body of the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnflinching, generous, and inspiring, Ensler's \u003ci\u003eIn the Body of the World\u003c\/i\u003e calls on us all to embody our connection to and responsibility for the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250043979\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.93h x 5.15w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/23\/2014 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Eve Ensler","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42451310084277,"sku":"9781250043979","price":20.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_0ca026ec-fadf-4739-be96-267dd1b7bcc4.jpg?v=1666106882","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/in-the-body-of-the-world-9781250043979","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}