Insecure at Last : : Losing it in our Security-Obsessed World

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I. DRAWN TO WHAT I FEARED THE MOST: The first melting -- When I learned that bullets are frozen tears -- Almost flogged -- Under the burqa -- They blew her up 'cause they could not cut her down -- Dust -- Going the distance -- II. UNRAVELING: Vaginas--more terrifying than scud missiles -- The door that blew open -- A world of Brendas -- The memory of her face: Ciudad Juarez -- Waiting for Mr. Alligator -- The scariest thing about prison was not the spiked barbed wire -- Betty Gale Tyson is free -- III. LEAVING MY FATHER'S HOUSE: Reckoning -- Free falling -- The wave that came and took everything away -- IV. FINALLY EXPOSED: INSECURE AT LAST: Smack in the center of America -- Down to the zero of myself -- Diving -- Christmas Eve, 2005 -- In the name of security, they somehow forgot to protect the people.
Interweaves memoir and observation to explain how fears on both a personal and global scale result in a less secure existence.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Villard, c2006.
Year Published: 2006
Description: xx, 202 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1400063345
9781400063345

SUBJECTS
Ensler, Eve, -- 1953-
Women -- History -- 21st century -- Case studies.
Feminism -- Case studies.