The Virginia Monologues: Why Growing Old is Great

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Learn More - opens in a new window or tab Any international shipping is paid in part to Pitney Bowes Inc. Learn More - opens in a new window or tab. It's true that among those who are no longer part of our lives, there may be "someone special whom we completely ignored at the time I completel Well, yes, parts of this are predictable, but for the most part it's amusing and not depressing. I completely love what she says about funerals - I plan to be cremated but I would like there to be lots of flowers and also one of those overflowing trees of champagne like the Jane Fonda character has in that wonderful French movie about aging couples sharing a house together whose name I have forgotten.

Sep 08, Margaret Bamford rated it really liked it. Enjoyable book that made me realise that I am not alone in my way of looking at life. K W Gilbert rated it really liked it Dec 15, Claude rated it liked it Aug 03, Barbara rated it really liked it Apr 11, Mirjana Lanik rated it really liked it Mar 03, Carolyn Rogers rated it really liked it Jul 04, Rosalie Maasdorp rated it it was amazing Dec 15, Lindsey added it Nov 02, Teri Salisbury marked it as to-read Jan 22, Evelyn Foss marked it as to-read Aug 08, Loisa added it May 25, Kat46 added it Oct 16, Beiza added it Dec 22, Robespierre Cat marked it as to-read Jan 24, V-Day is a non-profit c 3 organization [5] that distributes funds to national and international grassroot organizations and programs that work to stop violence against girls and women.

Such events take place worldwide each year between 1 February and 30 April, many on college campuses as well. On 21 February Miss Ensler in conjunction with Jane Fonda and Deep Stealth Productions produced and directed the first all-transgender [10] performance of The Vagina Monologues , with readings by eighteen notable transgender women and including a new monologue documenting the experiences of transgender women. Since that debut, many university and college productions have included these three "Transgender Monologues". Beautiful Daughters is a documentary about the cast of the first performance by transgender women.

An article in Signs by Christine M. Cooper begins by applauding The Vagina Monologues for benefit performances done within the first six years — The Vagina Monologues has been criticized by some within the feminist movement, including pro-sex feminists and individualist feminists. Dodson's main concern seemed to be the lack of the term "clitoris" throughout the play.

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She believes that the play sends a message that the vagina is the main sex organ, not the clitoris. She also noted that the "V" in V-Day no longer stands for vagina, but for violence. There is also criticism of The Vagina Monologues about its conflation of vaginas as women, more specifically for the message of the play that women are their vaginas, as Susan E. Bell and Susan M. Reverby argue, "Generations of feminists have argued that we are more than our bodies, more than a vagina or 'the sex'.

Yet, TVM re-inscribes women's politics in our bodies, indeed in our vaginas alone".

Because of the title and content of The Vagina Monologues being body-centric, American University chose to change their production of it to a new show including all-original pieces, giving the production the name of Breaking Ground Monologues. In a student organization at Mount Holyoke College canceled its annual performance of the play for being, in its opinion, insufficiently inclusive of transgender people. Kim Hall, a professor of Philosophy at Appalachian State University, further criticizes the play, particularly the sections dealing with women in developing countries , for contributing to "colonialist conceptions of non-Western women," [17] such as the piece "My Vagina was a Village.

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In The Vagina Monologues, depictions of sexual violence are told through mostly non-white and non-US centered stories, as Srimati Basu states, "While a few of these forms of violence, such as sexual assault and denigration of genitalia, are depicted in U. These global locations serve to signify the terror that is used to hold the laughter in balance, to validate the seriousness of the enterprise, while the 'vagina' pieces are more directly associated with pleasure and sexuality and set in the United States".

In , Columbia University's V-Day decided to stage the play with a cast entirely of non-white women because of the misrepresentation. That decision, too, was controversial. The TFP denounced it as "a piece replete with sexual encounters, lust, graphic descriptions of masturbation and lesbian behavior", [20] urging students and parents to protest. Following TFP and other protests, performances were cancelled at sixteen Catholic colleges.

Saint Louis University made the decision not to endorse the production, claiming the yearly event was getting to be "redundant. In , Robert Swope, a conservative contributor to a Georgetown University newspaper, The Hoya , wrote an article critical of the play.

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