A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer: Writings to Stop

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

Selections from the â€œUntil the Violence Stopsâ€ Festival

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

This groundbreaking collection, edited by author and playwright Eve Ensler, features pieces from â€œUntil the Violence Stops,â€ 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 womenâ€™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 issueâ€™s effect on every one of us. With information on how to organize an â€œUntil the Violence Stopsâ€ 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.

â€œIn the current era, it takes some brain racking to think of anyone else doing anything quite like Ensler. Sheâ€™s a countercultural consciousness-raiser, an empowering figure, a truth-teller.â€
â€“Chicago Tribune
Country USA
Brand Villard
Manufacturer Random House Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780345497918
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2007-05-29
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780345497918

Country	USA
Brand	Villard
Manufacturer	Random House Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780345497918
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2007-05-29
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780345497918

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

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