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Vagina Warriors | 
 enlarge | Authors: Eve Ensler, Joyce Tenneson
Publisher: Bulfinch
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 745029
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0821261843
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.88082
EAN: 9780821261842
ASIN: 0821261843
Publication Date: February 2, 2005
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Amazon.com Review
This collaborative effort between two activist artists is very well-meaning and does have some strong content. It evolved out of Ms. Ensler's conversations with women who approached her after the earliest performances of The Vagina Monologues, women who felt the need to witness to her, to tell their own experiences. However, very little of that detail exists in these many pages, and the effort feels more like an overgown pamphlet than a real book. That is a shame, considering the true excellence of Ensler's and photographer Joyce Tenneson's work, as well as the strength of the "V Day" cause that sales of this work help to raises funds for. In 2004, V Day had grown to 2300 events and had raised 25 million dollars to support women's rights. The Vagina Monologues gets much of its considerable power from the specificity, the viscerality and the humor of the play. Yet all of these elements are missing from this collaboration. The book is laid out rather cheesily, with portraits of "Vagina Warriors" next to very brief statements that speak to the idea of the Vagina Warrior in modern society. In the end, this is a souvenir, not really much of a book. Ensler's text is minimal, and the photographs are not even given full-page treatment, nor are they printed particularly well. But if what you want is a souvenir for a truly amazing movement, it's certainly fine as such. --Mike McGonigal
Product Description
This book is a unique collaboration between photographer Joyce Tenneson and activist/performer Eve Ensler, creator of The Vagina Monologues. It is also the title of a major campaign to promote V-Day (February 14th), an annual event designed to combat violence against women and girls worldwide. The V-Day movement, which raises awareness and funds through benefit productions of The Vagina Monologues and other events, is growing rapidly throughout the world. In its first 5 years, V-Day has raised over USD20 million and was named as one of Worth magazine's 100 Best Charities. The book features Tenneson's portraits of these activists, many of them well-known celebrities, alongside powerful statements and quotations. Ensler has dubbed these women, and many other non- celebrities who are part of the movement, 'Vagina Warriors'. Celebrities featured include Glenn Close, Salma Hayek Gloria Steinem and Isabella Rossellini and many others and Tenneson's photos form the centrepiece of a V-Day advertising campaign
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 informative December 24, 2008
It was good enough, but after going to some of Eve Ensler's gatherings, so much of it was redundant to me.
 You Have a Warrior Inside - Waiting to Be Fully Expressed January 13, 2006
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is a follow up of the "Vagina Monologues," after Eve Ensler met women everywhere who felt and still feel grateful for Ms. Ensler's work to give women and girls an unstoppable voice that congruently communicates:
1. Go the distance, and then some;
2. Disarm the potentially disempowering force coming towards
you;
3. Demonstate that you are here, and that you matter;
4. Your inner power adds potential to men and women; and,
5. Compassion, not punishment is the answer;
The messages from the following people are especially moving:
Hazelle Goodman, an actor from New York, says, "As a Vigina Warrior,I say to endangered women everywhere, 'Let me hold your broken wing while you fly.'"
Carole Black, President and CEO of Lifetime Entertainment Services, shares, "... I am dedicated to using the power of the mediato inform and support wome on the issues most important to them and their families."
And Gloria Steinem's message in this book says, "... look at the world as if women matter[].."
In this book there are over sixty-five profiles of famous and not so famous Vagina Warriors who come from all over the world.
Their world vision is guided by the compassion and determination that moves women and girls, as well as men towards simultaneous autonomy and connection.
Who could ask for more?
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