Books like The good body by Eve Ensler

Rebecca Solnit explores the dynamics of gendered conversation, examining how men often presume authority while women are silenced, and linking this to broader patterns of sexism and violence.

A Jungian analyst and storyteller explores the Wild Woman archetype, using myths, fairy and folk tales to help women reconnect with creativity, instinct, and inner vitality.

Eve Ensler’s collection of candid conversations with over two hundred women spans generations, cultures and professions, exploring themes of body image, sexuality and empowerment with humor and honesty.

The Body Is Not an Apology invites readers to heal body shame with radical self‑love, challenging oppressive systems and fostering a more just, compassionate world.

Inga Muscio follows the journey of the word "cunt" from ancient reverence to modern profanity, encouraging women to reclaim it as a symbol of empowerment and bodily autonomy.

The Body Project traces how 20th‑century changes in girls’ bodies and collapsing social supports turned the body into the primary project for American girls, drawing on diaries, photographs and historic sources.

*Fragmentation and Redemption* is first of all about bodies and the relationship of part to whole in the high Middle Ages, a period in which the overcoming of partition and putrefaction was the very image of paradise. It is also a study of gender, that is, a study of how sex roles and possibilities are conceptualized by both men and women, even though asymmetric power relationships and men’s greater access to knowledge have informed the cultural construction of categories such as “male” and “female,” “heretic” and “saint.” Finally, these essays are about the creativity of women’s voices and women’s bodies. Bynum discusses how some women manipulated the dominant tradition to free themselves from the burden of fertility, yet made female fertility a powerful symbol; how some used Christian dichotomies of male / female and powerful / weak to facilitate their own imitatio Christi, yet undercut these dichotomies by subsuming them into *humanitas*. Medieval women spoke little of inequality and little of gender, yet there is a profound connection between their symbols and communities and the twentieth-century determination to speak of gender and “study women.” (Source: [Princeton University Press](https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780942299625/fragmentation-and-redemption))