Beautiful Daughters
| Beautiful Daughters | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Josh Aronson[2] |
| Produced by | Josh Aronson |
| Edited by | Kate Hirson |
| Distributed by | Logo TV |
Release date |
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Running time | 46 minutes[3] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Beautiful Daughters is a 2006 documentary that follows the first-ever, all-transgender production of Eve Ensler's famous play "The Vagina Monologues."[4] It was released in the United States on February 11, 2006.[5] The documentary is directed by Josh Aronson and Ariel Orr Jordan, featuring Calpernia Addams, Jane Fonda, and Andrea James.[5]
About
During the planning of this performance, Eve Ensler wrote a new monologue using narratives from the transgender cast called They Beat the Girl Out of My Boy. . . Or So They Tried.[6][7] It promotes visibility of transwomen, regardless of their anatomy.[8][9]
The documentary displays the hardships the all-transgender cast had to endure in order to make the production relevant to their identity.[10][11] A few women involved in the production used their rendition of The Vagina Monologues as a platform to "come out," having been closeted as transgender beforehand.[12][13]
References
- ^ Logo to Air Beautiful Daughters for V-Day
- ^ Beautiful Daughters premieres February 11 on Logo
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- ^ Review: ‘Beautiful Daughters’
- ^ a b Addams, Calpernia; Beatty, Christine D.; Conway, Lynn; Deo, Verba (2006-02-11), Beautiful Daughters, retrieved 2017-05-09
- ^ "I've Never Found the V-Day Conversation to Be Dependent on Genitalia". Time magazine. 2015-01-18. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
- ^ "Vagina Monologues playwright: 'It never said a woman is someone with a vagina'". The Guardian. 2015-01-16. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
- ^ "They Beat the Girl Out of My Boy: Trans Women in The Vagina Monologues". Global Sex and Sexualities. 2012-03-29. Retrieved 2017-05-09.
- ^ "Is The Vagina Monologue Transphobic?". Instinct. 2016-11-10. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
- ^ Complicating Transgender: White Privilege and the Politics of Rurality
- ^ Our Vaginas Not Ourselves: A Critical Analysis of the “Vagina Monologues”
- ^ "Beautiful Daughters: A documentary about the first-ever all-transgender staging of Eve Ensler's "Vagina Monologues"". ai.eecs.umich.edu. Retrieved 2017-05-09.
- ^ The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History by Emma L. E. Rees