I Am an Emotional Creature: The...
From Booklist *Starred Review* Written in the same format as her watershed work, The Vagina Monologues (1998), Enslers...
See more
(03/04/12) From Booklist *Starred Review* Written in the same format as her watershed work, The Vagina Monologues (1998), Enslers latest mélange of dramatic voices continues the mission of her philanthropic organization, V-Day, to stop violence against women. Published for adults but aimed straight at young adults, this volume provides a searing look at the inner lives of young females today in entries that explore sex, violence, love, body image, materialism, identity, family, friends, and the future. You Tell Me How to Be a Girl in 2010 begins the collection with a furious catalog of the state of a girls world, from global war to everyday heartbreak: Girls younger than me are giving blowjobs / in homeroom / and they dont even know its sex. The sobering international voices include child soldiers, young sex slaves, girls whose boyfriends hit them, and girls who starve and cut themselves. Other girls speak of honesty, tenderness, freedom, accomplishment, self-love, and defiance: My short...See less