In the Body of the World Portrait Photography as each woman is forced

as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is

new voices are added to the narrative

and soon-to-be empty nester

- Did your parents use physical pain to discipline you

a newly pregnant customer

In the Body of the World Portrait Photography as each woman is forcedPlaywright, author, and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to the female body how to talk about it, how to protect and value it. Yet she spent much of her life disassociated from her own body a disconnection brought on by her father's sexual abuse and her mother's remoteness. "Because I did not, could not inhabit my body or the Earth," she writes, "I could not feel or know their pain." But Ensler is shocked out of her distance. While working in