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...Ensler's play Necessary Targets, about the rape of Bosnian women, will open in New York City on Feb. 28. Her Vagina Monologues will again be the centerpiece of Valentine's Day fund raising around the world to end violence against women...
RING OF PREVENTION In its ongoing search for the perfect birth-control device, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a new one called NuvaRing. It's a clear, flexible plastic ring that's inserted into the vagina once a month and emits the same hormones used in the Pill but in lower (and presumably safer) doses. It should be available by spring...
This is not your mother's feminism. Ensler is a self-confessed survivor of sexual and physical abuse by her father and of drugs and alcohol. Yet she does not think women should be stuck with the role of victim. Instead, The Vagina Monologues is a joyous, sometimes poignant and often hilarious exploration of women's conflicted feelings about their vaginas. The play--which has been known to propel women in the audience to their feet, whooping and stomping in recognition--has been performed from Antarctica to Zaire. It is currently playing in more than 25 countries and is almost...
Guys think about their penises a lot (they do, they do) and, as Ensler will tell you, much of Western culture is built around metaphors about the penis as dominator or conqueror. But odd though it is, women rarely think about, let alone talk about, vaginas. When they have, it has often been in big books by the feminist intelligentsia and mostly in the context of a power struggle--vaginas as a target of oppression (Susan Brownmiller's Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape), or vaginas as a primal, mysterious force that intimidates men (Simone de Beauvoir...
Ensler uses her work as a tool to greater purposes. Since 1998, The Vagina Monologues has been performed as a benefit on Valentine's Day to raise funds for groups all over the world working to end violence against women. This past V-day, as Ensler calls her festival, the play was staged at Madison Square Garden in New York City, in 50 other cities and on 250 college campuses. Her play Necessary Targets was drawn from the accounts of Bosnian rape victims she interviewed in 1994. It was performed, among other places, at the National Theatre in Sarajevo...