Monolouges: The Vagina Monolouges

This collection of monolouges is a powerful body of work that spans a variety of issues relating to gender, sexism, and male domination. Unlike the The Laramie Project, where most of the monolouges felt solicited and provoked by an interviewer, only "The Flood" interview alludeded to any other character than the one speaking. In both "Hair" and "Because He Like to Look at It" the character seems to be telling her story voluntary. The honest graphic descriptions are very effective in relaying the pain and struggle of each story, especially the images in "Hair." In "The Flood" the absent but alluded-to interviewer helps emphasize the generational gaps between elder and younger women, as well as emphasizing why the Vagina Monolouges are significant and important- that telling these stories are liberating. The use of the absent interviewer keeps the focus on the woman delivering the monolouge while at the same time emphasizing her growth.