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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ensler, Eve, 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Villard, [2006]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Women > History > 21st century > Case studies.
Feminism > Case studies.
Ensler, Eve, > 1953-
Online Access:Contributor biographical information
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Table of Contents:
  • I. DRAWN TO WHAT I FEARED THE MOST: 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
  • II. UNRAVELING: 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
  • III. LEAVING MY FATHER'S HOUSE: Reckoning
  • Free falling
  • The wave that came and took everything away
  • IV. FINALLY EXPOSED: INSECURE AT LAST: 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.