Beautiful Daughters is a 2006 documentary that follows the first-ever all-transgender production of Eve Ensler's famous play The Vagina Monologues.[2] It was released in the United States on February 11, 2006. The documentary is directed by Josh Aronson and Ariel Orr Jordan and features Calpernia Addams, Jane Fonda, and Andrea James.
| Beautiful Daughters | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Josh Aronson[1] |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Producer | Josh Aronson |
| Editor | Kate Hirson |
| Running time | 46 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Release | February 11, 2006[1] |
About
editDuring 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.[3][4] It promotes visibility of trans women, regardless of their anatomy.[5][6]
The documentary displays the hardships the all-transgender cast had to endure in order to make the production relevant to their identity.[7][8] 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.[9][10]
References
edit- ^ a b "Beautiful Daughters premieres February 11 on Logo". The Advocate. 2006-02-11. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
- ^ Scheib, Ronnie (2006-06-29). "Review: 'Beautiful Daughters'". Variety. Retrieved 2017-06-12.
- ^ "I've Never Found the V-Day Conversation to Be Dependent on Genitalia". Time. 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. Archived from the original on 2017-08-15. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
- ^ Johnson, Jordon (2015). Complicating Transgender: White Privilege and the Politics of Rurality (Doctoral thesis). The University of New Mexico.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Riesser, Alyssa (May 20, 2006). "Our Vaginas Not Ourselves: A Critical Analysis of the "Vagina Monologues"" (PDF). MP. 1 (4).
- ^ "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.
- ^ Rees, Emma L. E. (2013-08-01). The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 245. ISBN 9781623560669.
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