A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer (Google eBook)

Eve Ensler

Random House Digital, Inc., Dec 24, 2008 - Political Science - 240 pages

Selections from the “Until the Violence Stops” Festival

Featuring writings by Abiola Abrams • Edward Albee • Tariq Ali • Maya Angelou • Periel Aschenbrand • Patricia Bosworth • Nicole Burdette • Kate Clinton • Kimberle Crenshaw • Michael Cunningham • Edwidge Danticat • Ariel Dorfman • Mollie Doyle • Slavenka Drakulic • Michael Eric Dyson • Dave Eggers • Kathy Engel • Eve Ensler • Jane Fonda • Carol Gilligan • Jyllian Gunther • Suheir Hammad • Christine House • Marie Howe • Carol Michèle Kaplan • Moisés Kaufman • Michael Klein • Nicholas Kristof • James Lecesne • Elizabeth Lesser • Mark Matousek • Deena Metzger • Susan Miller • Winter Miller • Susan Minot • Robin Morgan • Kathy Najimy • Lynn Nottage • Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy • Sharon Olds • Hanan al-Shaykh • Anna Deavere Smith • Diana Son • Monica Szlekovics • Robert Thurman • Betty Gale Tyson • Alice Walker • Jody Williams • Erin Cressida Wilson • Howard Zinn

This groundbreaking collection, edited by author and playwright Eve Ensler, features pieces from “Until the Violence Stops,” the international tour that brings the issue of violence against women and girls to the forefront of our consciousness. These diverse voices rise up in a collective roar to break open, expose, and examine the insidiousness of brutality, neglect, a punch, or a put-down. Here is Edward Albee on S&M; Maya Angelou on women’s work; Michael Cunningham on self-mutilation; Dave Eggers on a Sudanese
abduction; Carol Gilligan on a daughter witnessing her mother being hit; Susan Miller on raising a son as a single mother; and Sharon Olds on a bra.

These writings are inspired, funny, angry, heartfelt, tragic, and beautiful. But above all, together they create a true and profound portrait of this issue’s effect on every one of us. With information on how to organize an “Until the Violence Stops” event in your community, A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer is a call to the world to demand an end to violence against women.

“In the current era, it takes some brain racking to think of anyone else doing anything quite like Ensler. She’s a countercultural consciousness-raiser, an empowering figure, a truth-teller.”
–Chicago Tribune


From the Trade Paperback edition.

What people are saying

Review: A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer: Writings to Stop Violence Against Women and girls

User Review  - Krissy - Goodreads

MMRP was powerful when I saw a V-Day production of it a couple years ago, and the essays held up to that power when I finally read it this year. Some of the essays were very raw and uncomfortable to read - that doesn't mean they shouldn't be read though. The essays need to be shared.

Review: A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer: Writings to Stop Violence Against Women and girls

User Review  - Thandiwe - Goodreads

Not for the faint-hearted/averse to hearing about rape and other forms of sexual violence that affect women. A very intense read that will leave no mystery around real life atrocities faced by women but will jolt any reader in to wanting to do something about it.

Contents

• Elmwood Avenue Monica Szlekovics: 12
• First Kiss Mollie Doyle: 19
• Blueberry Hill Christine House: 25
• The Massacre Marie Howe: 31
• Dear Ama Sharmeen ObaidChinoy: 38
• Untitled Nicholas D Kristof: 44
• Maurice Kathy Najimy: 53
• Conversations with My Son Susan Miller: 61
• The Perfect Marriage Edward Albee: 67
• Darfur Monologue Winter Miller: 84
• Celia Edwidge Danticat: 91
• Woman Tariq Ali 103: 105
• In Memory of Imette Periel Aschenbrand: 114
• Stew Ariel Dorfman: 121
• Give It Back Suheir Hammad: 129
• The Bra Sharon Olds: 138
• True Carol Michele Kaplan: 145
• Club Nicole Burdette: 148
• Eye to Eye Deena Metzger: 162
• Fur Is Back Eve Ensler: 176
• How to Get Involved: 191
• About the Writers: 205

About the author

EVE ENSLER is an award-winning playwright, poet, activist, and screenwriter whose many works for the stage include The Depot, Floating Rhoda and the Glue Man, Extraordinary Measures, Lemonade, Ladies, and, most recently, Necessary Targets, which was performed on Broadway to benefit Bos-nian women refugees. She has presented her off-Broadway hit The Vagina Monologues (winner of the 1997 Obie Award) at theaters and universities around the United States, as well as in Jerusalem, London, and Zagreb. She is currently writing a screenplay on women in prison for Glenn Close at Miramax and a new play for the Music Theater Group. An in-structor in the graduate Dramatic Writing Pro-gram at New York University, she lives in New York City with her partner, Ariel Orr Jordan.

"From the Trade Paperback edition.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer
• Editor: Eve Ensler
• Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc., 2008
• ISBN: 0307496767, 9780307496768
• Length: 240 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / General; Social Science / Sociology / General