| 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 (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.
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.[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
- ^ a b "Beautiful Daughters premieres February 11 on Logo". The Advocate. February 11, 2006. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
- ^ Scheib, Ronnie (June 29, 2006). "Review: 'Beautiful Daughters'". Variety. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
- ^ "I've Never Found the V-Day Conversation to Be Dependent on Genitalia". Time. January 18, 2015. Retrieved June 5, 2017.
- ^ "Vagina Monologues playwright: 'It never said a woman is someone with a vagina'". The Guardian. January 16, 2015. Retrieved June 5, 2017.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Is The Vagina Monologue Transphobic?". Instinct. November 10, 2016. Archived from the original on August 15, 2017. Retrieved June 5, 2017.
- ^ 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 May 9, 2017.
- ^ Rees, Emma L. E. (August 1, 2013). The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 245. ISBN 9781623560669.
External links
- Official website
- Beautiful Daughters at IMDb
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