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The Vagina Monologues (1999) has caused a stir throughout the world. This play made Ensler a celebrity and inspired her to organize what is referred to as the V-Day movement, to stop violence against women. Ensler performed all the roles and was awarded an Obie for her writing. In the play, women talk about their bodies and their sexual experiences. The women represent just about every age group, from a six-year-old to a septuagenarian.

As with her other plays, Ensler gathered material from interviews with women from around the world to write The Good Body (2004). The focus in this play is on women's stomachs. The dialogue is often funny, and the subject matter reveals women's different cultural attitudes about their bodies.

David Rieff's Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West (1996) provides a journalist's point of view of the war in Bosnia. Although the details are...
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