Insecure at last : losing it in our security-obsessed world

V, 1953- author.

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"When her stage play The Vagina Monologues became a runaway hit and an international sensation, Eve Ensler emerged as a powerful voice and champion for women everywhere. Now the brilliant playwright gives us her first major work written exclusively for the printed page. Insecure at Last is a timely and urgent look at our security-obsessed world, the drastic measures taken to keep us safe, and how we can truly experience freedom by letting go of t...

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ISBN:

9780812973662

Edition:

Villard Books trade paperback edition

Description:

xx, 202 pages ; 21 cm

Notes:

"A political memoir" --Cover

Contents:

Introduction : Worried about security
The first melting
When I learned that bullets are frozen tears
Almost flogged
Under the burqa
They blew her up 'cause they could not cut her down
Dust
Going the distance
Vaginas : more terrifying than scud missiles
The door that blew open
A world of Brendas
The memory of her face : Ciudad Juarez
Waiting for Mr. Alligator
The scariest thing about prison was not the spiked barbed wire
Betty Gale Tyson is free
Reckoning
Free falling
The wave that came and took everything away
Leaving my father's house
Smack in the center of America
Down to the zero of myself
Diving
Christmas Eve, 2005
In the name of security, they somehow forgot to protect the people
Conclusion : Peace is a state of being ; Security is being of the state

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3332608

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