The Good Body

Rating:
Summary: A great read if...
Review: ...you can identify with the theme. A good read if you can't.
Like the Vagina Monologues, the author, through compelling, candid and touching "skits", urges the readers to release the phantasms of shame, guilt, obsession around their body images.
Ensler identifies distorted self-images as more than a trend or epidemic, but as a common attitude among many women, one that often leads to self-hatred and in many cases, self-mutilation.
The Good Body is a cry against the insanity of the perfect ideals to which women compare themselves, a plea to stop the rampant capitalism associated with weight and beauty, and an appeal to women to love themselves.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent
Review: Wow! I had never read Eve Ensler before. This book is a little gem of a look at women and how we view our bodies. The author starts off by saying "while there is a war in Iraq, I am worried about my tummy".

For women who do not have image issues (all 3 of you) this book will seem silly, but for the rest of us who are oh-so conscious of our bodies and especially their faults, this book will hit home.

A series of vignettes from various women, interwoven with Eve Ensler's comments and own views, this book is loaded with insight into how women think.

My only negative. It is way too short.