{"id":499,"date":"2012-09-02T00:08:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/125books\/?p=499"},"modified":"2012-09-02T00:08:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:08:28","slug":"year-111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/2012\/09\/02\/year-111\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 111"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>1998: <strong>The Vagina Monologues<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Author\/Editor: Eve Ensler<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/simon.ups.edu\/record=b1633927~S0\" target=\"_blank\">Find it in Collins Library!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/VaginaMonologues3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-502 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/VaginaMonologues3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"387\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/VaginaMonologues3.jpg 482w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/VaginaMonologues3-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Vagina Monologues<\/em> was drafted in 1996, and in 1998 published as a book. On February 14, 1998, the first V-Day was held. Since then, V-Day and celebratory performances have been happening yearly around the word, raising awareness of\u00a0 and sometimes funds to stop violence against women.<\/p>\n<p>Vagina Monologues, too, was a first step in our slow cultural movement to be able to (somewhat) more easily talk accurately about women\u2019s\u00a0 bodies today. When the book was under development, one publisher actually told Ensler to keep the advance and find a new publisher\u2014they weren\u2019t sure they could do the v-word. Now, while a double standard about naming men\u2019s and women\u2019s bodies remains (see, for example the Michigan state representative who was <a href=\"http:\/\/detroit.cbslocal.com\/2012\/06\/14\/michigan-rep-censored-for-use-of-v-word\/\">censured for saying vagina<\/a> on the floor), we are somewhat closer to being able to use plain, accurate language than we were in 1998.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/VaginaMonologues1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-500 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/VaginaMonologues1-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/VaginaMonologues1-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/VaginaMonologues1-624x384.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/VaginaMonologues1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1998: The Vagina Monologues Author\/Editor: Eve Ensler Find it in Collins Library! The Vagina Monologues was drafted in 1996, and in 1998 published as a book. On February 14, 1998, the first V-Day was held. Since then, V-Day and celebratory performances have been happening yearly around the word, raising awareness of\u00a0 and sometimes funds to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1988-1997"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}