Beautiful Daughters

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Beautiful Daughters
Directed byJosh Aronson [1]
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducerJosh Aronson
EditorKate Hirson
Running time46 minutes
Original release
ReleaseFebruary 11, 2006 (2006-02-11) [1]

Beautiful Daughters is a 2006 documentary that follows the first-ever all-transgender production of Eve Ensler's 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.

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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. [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

  1. 1 2 "Beautiful Daughters premieres February 11 on Logo". The Advocate. February 11, 2006. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
  2. ↑ Scheib, Ronnie (June 29, 2006). "Review: 'Beautiful Daughters'". Variety. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
  3. ↑ "I've Never Found the V-Day Conversation to Be Dependent on Genitalia". Time. January 18, 2015. Retrieved June 5, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Vagina Monologues playwright: 'It never said a woman is someone with a vagina'". The Guardian. January 16, 2015. Retrieved June 5, 2017.
  5. ↑ "They Beat the Girl Out of My Boy: Trans Women in The Vagina Monologues". Global Sex and Sexualities. March 29, 2012. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Is The Vagina Monologue Transphobic?". Instinct . November 10, 2016. Archived from the original on August 15, 2017. Retrieved June 5, 2017.
  7. ↑ Johnson, Jordon (2015). Complicating Transgender: White Privilege and the Politics of Rurality (Doctoral thesis). The University of New Mexico.[ permanent dead link ]
  8. ↑ Riesser, Alyssa (May 20, 2006). "Our Vaginas Not Ourselves: A Critical Analysis of the 'Vagina Monologues'" (PDF). MP. 1 (4).
  9. ↑ "Beautiful Daughters: A documentary about the first-ever all-transgender staging of Eve Ensler's 'Vagina Monologues'". ai.eecs.umich.edu. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
  10. ↑ Rees, Emma L. E. (August 1, 2013). The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 245. ISBN   9781623560669.


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