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Sounds very interesting...

I wonder if the film touches on Eve Ensler's ideas regarding child abuse ...

This is taken from wiki....

Eve Ensler wrote the Vagina Monologues which include a section entitled "The Little Coochie Snorcher that Could". This portion of the play, as originally performed, has been criticized for including a lesbian rape scene of a 13-year-old girl by a 24-year-old woman who uses alcohol to lower the inhibitions of her victim. At the conclusion of the segment, the narrator (the grown-up thirteen year old girl) fondly reminisces about the rape, claiming that it helped to nurture her and help her grow as a woman, and finishes the play with the line, "If it was rape, it was good rape". The segment received criticism not only for depicting any rape as "good", but also for forming a double standard, as elsewhere in the play, male-on-female rape is depicted as not only inexcusable but the ultimate act of violence against women.
The scene was modified in later performances; the young girl's age was changed to 16, and the "good rape" line was omitted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Ensler

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V-Day Jersey City 2010
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WHAT I WANT MY WORDS TO DO TO YOU
Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 5 p.m.
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What I Want My Words To Do To You offers an unprecedented look into the minds and hearts of the women inmates of New York's Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. The film goes inside a writing workshop led by playwright and activist Eve Ensler, consisting of 15 women, most of whom were convicted of murder. Through a series of exercises and discussions, the women delve into their pasts and explore the nature of their crimes and the extent of their own culpability.

Statistics about incarcerated women:
Nationally, women prisoners are the fastest growing group in the prison population.
The vast majority of women in prison have been victims of violence prior to their incarceration including domestic violence, rape, sexual assault and child abuse.
Women who are violent offenders are even more likely to have been abused and to be incarcerated for responding to that abuse violently.
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