The Vagina Monologue Analysis

Carolee Schneemann helps change the way women view their body, sensuality, and gender by empowering women to define who they are and not let the worn out views of the past impact their definition of themselves and what they're capable of. Carolee Schneemann, the oldest of three, was born in Fox Chase, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 12th, 1939. She started drawing at a young age. She was described as a “mad panthiest.” A panthiest is someone who believes that the universe is identical with divinity. Schneemann says her earliest connection with art and sexuality was with her drawings between the ages of four and five. She had drawn her father's prescription tablets. “Schneemann's family was generally supportive of her naturalness and freeness with her body.” Carolee Schneemann attended many schools, Bard College where she received her Bachelor of Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana, Columbia University and the New School for Social Research. She was awarded a full scholarship to New York’s Bard College. She was the first woman …show more content…
Each of the monologues deals with an aspect of the feminine experience, touching on areas such as sex, love, rape, menstruation, female genital mutilation, masturbation, birth, orgasm, the various common names for the vagina, or simply as a physical aspect of the body. A recurring theme throughout the piece is the vagina as a tool of female empowerment and the ultimate embodiment of individuality. I believe that both of these works were based solely off of the empowerment of women. The vagina monologues talked of the vagina and all that it goes through, Schneemann talked about all the discourses on the body, ideally the same thing. They both showed the strength of having a vagina, not the weakness it is usually categorized to