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.Īmong 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. They are encouraged to shut down their instincts, their outrage, their desires and their dreams, to be polite, to obey the rules.
They are taught not to be too intense, too passionate, too smart, too caring, too open. Girls today often find themselves in a struggle between remaining strong and true to themselves and conforming to societys expectations in an attempt to please. Moving through a world of topics and emotions, these voices are fierce, alive, tender, complicated, imaginative, and smart. 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.
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