I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World
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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.Publishers WeeklyEnsler's groundbreaking play The Vagina Monologues sought to start a revolution in the way women related to their bodies and their sexuality; in her latest, the author and activist seeks to do the same for teenage girls-empowering them by giving voice and value to their feelings, opinions and struggles, and teaching them to do the same for themselves. This series of monologues from teenage girls all over the world includes poetry, blog entries, anecdotes and conversations covering topics as familiar as anorexia and peer pressure, and as hard to face as sexual slavery and institutional oppression. The collection shines when dealing with more serious material (arranged marriages, genital mutilation), but those powerful pieces unintentionally overshadow the more common concerns of girls struggling to fit in or cope with the popular crowd. As such, the average American teenager should gain a good bit of perspective, though less than Ensler would like about the legitimacy of her everyday experience. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Foreword Carol Gilligan Gilligan, CarolIntroduction Dear Emotional CreatureSection IYou Tell Me How to Be a Girl in 2010 3Let Me In 10What Don't You Like About Being a Girl? 16Girl Fact: Three Adults You Can TrustBad Boys 18What I Wish I Could Say to My Mother 21Girl Facts: Abstinence/Teen PregnancyIt's Not a Baby, It's a Maybe 23What's a Good Girl? 27Girl Fact: FGMDon't 29Would You Rather (I) 32Stephanied 35Girl Fact: SportsMoving Toward the Hoop 38Sophie et Apolline , or, Why French Girls Smoke 44Things I Heard About Sex 50I Dance (I) 52Section III Build It with Stone 57Girl Facts: Losing an Arm/Anorexiahunger blog 61The Joke About My Nose 64Would You Rather (II) 68Girl Fact: Slapped by PartnersDear Rihanna 71Girl Fact: Victims of Sex TraffickingI Have 35 Minutes Before He Comes Looking for Me 75Girl Fact: Barbie's PastFree Barbie 82Sky Sky Sky 87The Wall 93Girl Fact: Child SoldiersA Teenage Girl's Guide to Surviving Sex Slavery 97I Dance (II) 102Section IIIRefuser 107Girl Fact: Child LaborWhat Do You Like About Being a Girl? 114Asking the Question 115Would You Rather (III) 119Things I Like About My Body 122My Short Skirt 123Things That Give Us Pleasure 126Girl Fact: Less Than a Dollar a DayFive Cows and a Calf 129I Am an Emotional Creature 134I Dance (III) 138Epilogue: Manifest a to Young Women and Girls 141Acknowledgments 145Girl Fact Sources 147
