"({})": Raunch Culture, Third Wave Feminism and The Vagina Monologues

This article considers Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues in the latter part of the 2000s, in respect of tensions between Second and Third Wave feminism in an era of "raunch culture," in the contexts of exploratory university teaching and in performance, and against the background of experiences of cultures of feminist activism in Greater Manchester, and the trashier end of feminist literature.