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A memory, a monologue, a rant, and a prayer / edited by Eve Ensler and Mollie Doyle ; [contributors include Edward Albee, Tariq Ali [and others]].

Ensler, Eve, 1953- (Added Author). Doyle, Mollie (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780345497918 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0345497910 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: xv, 223 pages ; 20 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Villard, [2007]
Copyright: ©2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Looking for the body music / Michael Klein -- 7 variations on Margarita Weinberg / Moises Kaufman -- 1600 Elmwood Avenue / Monica Szlekovics -- The closet / Howard Zinn -- Darkness / Betty Gale Tyson with Jerry Capers -- First kiss / Mollie Doyle -- Groceries / Abiola Abrams -- Blueberry Hill / Christine House -- My two selves / Patricia Bosworth -- The massacre / Marie Howe -- My mother with her hands as knives / Dave Eggers -- Dear Ama / Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy -- Bitter coffee / Jody Williams -- Untitled / Nicholas D. Kristof -- My house is wallpapered with lies / Carol Gilligan -- Maurice / Kathy Najimy -- (Hey, did you happen to see) The most beautiful girl in the world / Jyllian Gunther -- Conversations with my son / Susan Miller -- The perfect marriage / Edward Albee -- None of us are monologists (aka Chill) / Anna Deavere Smith -- Darfur monologue / Winter Miller -- I can hear my soul cracking / Slavenka Drakulic -- Celia / Edwidge Danticat -- They took all of us / Susan Minot -- Woman / Tariq Ali -- I'm thinking I've closed my eyes for the last time / Hanan al-Shaykh -- I can't wait / James Lecesne -- In memory of Imette / Periel Aschenbrand -- Respect / Kimberle Crenshaw -- The aristocrats / Kate Clinton -- Connect: a web of words / Robin Morgan -- Stew / Ariel Dorfman -- The next fantastic leap / Elizabeth Lesser -- Give it back / Suheir Hammad -- The destruction artist / Michael Cunningham -- Hands in protest / Erin Cressida Wilson -- The bra / Sharon Olds -- Banana beer bath / Lynn Nottage -- True / Carol Michele Kaplan -- Club / Nicole Burdette -- Conversation between heaven and earth / Kathy Engel -- Part owner / Dr. Michael Eric Dyson -- Woman work / Maya Angelou -- Eye to eye / Deena Metzger -- Hail to the vagina / Robert Thurman -- Rescue / Mark Matousek -- To stop the violence against woman / Alice Walker -- Fur is back / Eve Ensler -- Afterword: reclaiming our mojo / Jan Fonda.