The Vagina Monologues

…Ensler’s play (and later book) The Vagina Monologues, an exploration of women’s feelings about sexuality that included vagina-centred topics as diverse as orgasm, birth, and rape; the righteous anger of punk rock’s riot grrrls movement; and the playfulness, seriousness, and subversion of the Guerrilla Girls, a group of women artists…

…honesty, humor, and horror of The Vagina Monologues, a 1996 play (and later book) by V (formerly Eve Ensler) that explored women’s feelings about sexuality and topics as diverse as orgasm, childbirth, and rape. The third-wave spirit also came through in the righteous anger of punk rock’s riot grrrl movement,…

…commercial success of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, originally an Off-Off Broadway solo show first performed in 1996, was representative of the new place of feminist theatre.