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c2013., General, Random House Canada Call No: Bio E61i Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Playwright, author and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to thinking about the female body--how to talk about it, how to protect and value it. Yet, as she recounts in this inspiring memoir, she spent much of her life disassociated from her own body--a disconnection first brought on by her father's battering and sexual abuse and her mother's remoteness. But Ensler is shocked out of her distance. On a trip to the Congo, she is shattered to encounter the horrific rape and violence inflicted on the women. Soon after, she is diagnosed with uterine cancer, and through months of harrowing treatment, she is forced to become first and foremost a body.
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1990., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Bio S111m Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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The right to be cold : one woman's story of protecting her culture, the Arctic, and the whole planetc2015., General, Allen Lane Call No: Bio W346r Edition: First edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library
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2012., HarperCollins Canada Call No: 323.092 N334t Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The remarkable story of two women named Nazaninone a Canadian at the height of her career, the other a teenager on death row in Iranand how one email changed their lives forever.Nazanin Afshin-Jam was on top of the world. In 2006, she had just signed her first record deal and, after placing as first runner-up for Miss World, was a sought-after fashion model and an icon within the Iranian dissident community. But one afternoon, she received an email that would change the course of her life. The subject of that emaila Kurdish girl named Nazanin Fatehiwas facing execution in Iran, as punishment for stabbing a man who had tried to rape her. Afshin-Jam quickly came to Fatehiœs defence, striding into the world of international diplomacy and confronting the dark side of the country of her birth, with its honour killings, violence against women and state-sanctioned execution of children. While Fatehi languished in prison, experiencing conditions so deplorable she attempted to end her own life, Afshin-Jam worked desperately on the campaign to save her. The Tale of Two Nazanins weaves together the lives of two womenone leading a life of opportunity, the other living in abject povertyand a fight for justice that, if only for a moment, brought the Iranian regime to its knees. An inspiring story of the bonds of sisterhood, this extraordinary book speaks to the power of every individual to foster positive change in the world.
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2022., Vintage Books Call No: NEW Bio W872y Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Drawing on a collection of original essays, previously published work, conversations, graphics, photos, commissioned art by disabled and Asian American artists, and more, Alice uses her unique talent to share an impressionistic scrapbook of her life as an Asian American disabled activist, community organizer, media maker, and dreamer. From her love of food and pop culture to her unwavering commitment to dismantling systemic ableism, Alice shares her thoughts on creativity, access, power, care, the pandemic, mortality, and the future. As a self-described disabled oracle, Alice traces her origins, tells her story, and creates a space for disabled people to be in conversation with one another and the world. Filled with incisive wit, joy, and rage, Wong's Year of the Tiger will galvanize readers with big cat energy.
