Beautiful Daughters
{{Short description|2006 American film directed by Josh Aronson}}
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Beautiful Daughters is a 2006 documentary that follows the first-ever all-transgender production of Eve Ensler's famous play The Vagina Monologues.{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2006/film/reviews/beautiful-daughters-1200515089/|title=Review: 'Beautiful Daughters'|last=Scheib|first=Ronnie|date=2006-06-29|work=Variety|access-date=2017-06-12|language=en-US}} 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.
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.{{Cite magazine|url=https://time.com/3672918/vagina-monologues-mount-holyoke-college-transphobic-vday/|title=I've Never Found the V-Day Conversation to Be Dependent on Genitalia|date=2015-01-18|magazine=Time|access-date=2017-06-05}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/16/vagina-monologues-eve-ensler-rejects-mount-holyoke-college-claims-reductionist-exclusive|title=Vagina Monologues playwright: 'It never said a woman is someone with a vagina'|date=2015-01-16|website=The Guardian|access-date=2017-06-05}} It promotes visibility of trans women, regardless of their anatomy.{{Cite web|url=https://globalsexandsexuality.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/the-beat-the-girl-out-of-my-boy-trans-women-in-the-vagina-monologues/|title=They Beat the Girl Out of My Boy: Trans Women in The Vagina Monologues|date=2012-03-29|website=Global Sex and Sexualities|access-date=2017-05-09}}{{Cite web|url=http://instinctmagazine.com/post/vagina-monologue-transphobic|title=Is The Vagina Monologue Transphobic?|date=2016-11-10|website=Instinct|access-date=2017-06-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815101906/http://instinctmagazine.com/post/vagina-monologue-transphobic|archive-date=2017-08-15|url-status=dead}}
The documentary displays the hardships the all-transgender cast had to endure in order to make the production relevant to their identity.{{Cite thesis|last=Johnson|first=Jordon|title=Complicating Transgender: White Privilege and the Politics of Rurality|date=2015|degree=Doctoral|publisher=The University of New Mexico|url=http://gradworks.proquest.com/10/00/10009157.html}}{{Dead link|date=June 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{Cite journal|last=Riesser|first=Alyssa|date=May 20, 2006|title=Our Vaginas Not Ourselves: A Critical Analysis of the "Vagina Monologues"|url=http://academinist.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Reiser.pdf|journal=MP|volume=1|issue=4}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Beautiful%20Daughters/Beautiful%20Daughters.html|title=Beautiful Daughters: A documentary about the first-ever all-transgender staging of Eve Ensler's "Vagina Monologues"|website=ai.eecs.umich.edu|access-date=2017-05-09}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7XPHAgAAQBAJ&q=%22Beautiful+Daughters%22|title=The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History|last=Rees|first=Emma L. E.|date=2013-08-01|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA|isbn=9781623560669|pages=245|language=en}}
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.aronsonfilms.com/beautiful-daughters.html}}
- {{IMDb title|0791292}}
Category:Transgender-related documentary films
Category:Documentary films about theatre
Category:LGBTQ theatre in the United States
Category:2006 LGBTQ-related films
Category:American LGBTQ-related documentary films
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