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In the body of the world : a memoir
Author
Title
In the body of the world : a memoir / Eve Ensler.
ISBN
9780805095180
0805095187
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2013.
Physical Description
1 online resource
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.
Variant and related titles
Internet Archive collection.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
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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