skip navigation  Hedging or Edging?  Originally published in:
Mail and Guardian (South Africa)  An attractive man pulls up in
a convertible to ask me where he can find The Vagina Monologues.
I have to tell him that I'm still looking as I wander towards
the closest building at Caesar's Palace, venue of South Africa's
first V-day event, musing that the bizarre interchange is
probably one of the more meaningful I've had on the topic of
women's sexuality.  Germaine Greer may mock Eve Ensler's
enactment of women's 'search' for their vaginas (which perhaps
are easier to find than the car keys), but to nitpick this play
in her article "Paying lip service", she often has to force a
surprisingly literal reading on her audience. And anyway, hasn't
the grande dame herself had a few false starts after turning on
the ignition?  I'm beginning to think critics like Greer simply
feel upstaged by a woman who has managed to popularize feminist
issues in a way that few would have dreamed possible, whose
fund-raising campaign to