I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World

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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 155.433 EAN: 9781400061044 Feature: ISBN13: 9781400061044 ISBN: 1400061040 Label: Villard Manufacturer: Villard Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 176 Publication Date: 2010-02-09 Publisher: Villard Release Date: 2010-02-09 Studio: Villard
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Editorial Reviews: In this daring, provocative, and insightful book, bestselling author and internationally acclaimed playwright Eve Ensler writes fictional monologues and stories inspired by girls around the globe. Moving through a world of topics and emotions, these voices are fierce, alive, tender, complicated, imaginative, and smart. Girls today often find themselves in a struggle between remaining strong and true to themselves and conforming to society’s expectations in an attempt to please. They are taught not to be too intense, too passionate, too smart, too caring, too open. They are encouraged to shut down their instincts, their outrage, their desires and their dreams, to be polite, to obey the rules. 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. Among the girls Ensler creates are an American who struggles with peer pressure in a suburban high school; an anorexic blogging as she eats less and less; a Masai girl from Kenya unwilling to endure female genital mutilation; a Bulgarian sex slave, no more than fifteen, a Chinese factory worker making Barbies; an Iranian student who is tricked into a nose job; a pregnant girl trying to decide if she should keep her baby. Through rants, poetry, questions, and facts, we come to understand the universality of girls everywhere: their resiliency, their wildness, their pain, their fears, their secrets, and their triumphs. I Am an Emotional Creature is a call, a reckoning, an education, an act of empowerment for girls, and an illumination for parents and for us all.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Don't Let the Door Hit You on Your Way Out, Ensler... Comment: I consider myself to be a devout feminist. As such, I expected nothing short of literary camaraderie from Eve Ensler when I picked this title up, per the suggestion of a like-minded feminist friend. "Dear Emotional Creature," the introduction began. One skeptical eyebrow already arched, I continued to read. Nestled somewhere in the 144 pages of filler that separate the introduction and the closing acknowledgments, I came across the very stark consensus that being a girl in the western world is akin to a ritualistic, media-indulged slavery, while living under the time honored male supremacy of the east is simply 'tradition,' not to be meddled with. The fictional Chang Ying of Kwai Yong, China, for example, writes of her tireless toils in a Barbie factory. Rather than address the valid and ever-present anti-women themes present in modern day China, Ensler decides instead to take yet another cheap stab at the stereotypical 'American ideal' that she herself inflates. This methodical condemnation is further coddled in an entry marked simply "Suburbia, USA." In this scenario, an insecure high school girl endures the wrath of the "popular" crowd when she commits the petty injustice of not owning a pair of Ugg boots. Of the entries that do haphazardly delve into real issues, Ensler takes the most cliché approach: an anorexic limply blogs about her distaste for celery; the daughter of a frigid Catholic family finds herself pregnant. Even in dealing with true heartache (a girl is sold into the sex industry by her father), Ensler's sickly poetic delivery makes the entries feel cheap and insincere; as overly-stuffed as a Lifetime movie. Though she wears the mask of a teenage girl, the voice is unmistakably still that of a bitter old hag whose weak banter has been overly-indulged for too long. Customer Rating: Summary: Breathtaking. Fascinating. Informative. Empowering Comment: Eve Ensler is brilliant. This poetry is so profound. I rarely read poetry and yet I was entranced throughout her whole book. Ensler brings up topics that need light shed on them such as the slave like conditions of the young Asian workers who make Barbie Dolls. Ensler tackles issues we and our sisters deal with. Thank you Eve Ensler! Highly Recommended. Customer Rating: Summary: Disappointed Comment: I did not care for this book at all. In fact, I couldn't even finish it. It is filled with poems that don't make much sense. I thought I was purchasing a book with stories in it (there are a few here and there), but very disappointed in what I got. Now I'm trying to find a way to sell it or give it away. Customer Rating: Summary: eve ensler opens our eyes again Comment: this book is easy to read and understand and pretty mindblowing. We look at the universal message to girls: please others-- and understand more about ourselves. A must read and think about-- Customer Rating: Summary: For Girls Everywhere Comment: I ordered this book after listening to Ms. Engler's talk and performance of the piece "I am an emotional creature" on TED Talks via You Tube. It was sent to me by one of my "girls" on the east coast who works at Cornell University and who sent it to all her girls, both female and male. I quickly sent it to all of mine. I have mentored girls through my work at UCSC and in my community and family and it always brings me such joy to be around them...Hearing her perform the poem from which the book gets its name simply rocked my world. I couldn't wait to order the book. It addresses in the most direct way the girl in all of us...that most precious of resources that we tend to abandon, repress, abuse and disown in so many ways and in accordance with so many cultural directives. It is a beautiful articulation of the wild, creative, dangerous, indomitable feminine--both an affirmation and a call to action. I'd like to give the book to all the girls I know. I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World More Reviews