This study explores The Vagina Monologues as a collection of personal narratives that utilizes both standpoint and muted group theories to reach V-Day's mission to end violence against women through awareness. Looking at The Vagina Monologues through an autoethnographic lens in combination with voices fostered in focus group interviews contributes to the field of communication studies by examining gender relations, issues of power, and muted standpoints. Many of the thirty-three participants seem to believe The Vagina Monologues aids discussion about hegemonic issues in a meaningful, accessible, and healing way. Implications for these moments are vast, with women relating to and understanding that these experiences do not have to be silenced, that even through the pain of exposure they can heal. Men, by learning about women's subjugated experiences, can contribute to the end of oppressive standpoints and behavior. Only together can women and men ultimately end violence against women.
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