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The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted By Her Beauty to Notice
by M. G. Lord
Walker & Company | January 2012 | ISBN-10: 0802716695 | ePUB/MOBI/LIT/PDF | 11.9 mb
http://www.amazon.com/The-Accidental-Feminist-Consciousness-Distracted/dp/0802716695

Movie stars establish themselves as brands--and Taylor's brand , in its most memorable outings, has repeatedly introduced a broad audience to feminist ideas. In her breakout film, "National Velvet" (1944), Taylor's character challenges gender discrimination,: Forbidden as a girl to ride her beloved horse in an important race, she poses as a male jockey. Her next milestone, "A Place in the Sun" (1951), can be seen as an abortion rights movie--a cautionary tale from a time before women had ready access to birth control. In "Butterfield 8" (1960), for which she won an Oscar, Taylor isn't censured because she's a prostitute, but because she chooses the men: she controls her sexuality, a core tenet of the third-wave feminism that emerged in the 1990s. Even "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966) depicts the anguish that befalls a woman when the only way she can express herself is through her husband's stalled career and children.
The legendary actress has lived her life defiantly in public--undermining post-war reactionary sex roles, helping directors thwart the Hollywood Production Code, which censored film content between 1934 and 1967. Defying death threats she spearheaded fundraising for AIDS research in the first years of the epidemic, and has championed the rights of people to love whom they love, regardless of gender. Yet her powerful feminist impact has been hidden in plain sight. Drawing on unpublished letters and scripts as well as interviews with Kate Burton, Gore Vidal, Austin Pendleton, Kevin McCarthy, Liz Smith, and others, The Accidental Feminist will surprise Taylor and film fans with its originality and will add a startling dimension to the star's enduring mystique.

About the Author
M.G. Lord is a celebrated cultural critic and investigative journalist, and the author of Forever Barbie and Astro Turf. Since 1995 she has been a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review and the Times's Arts & Leisure section. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Vogue, the Wall Street Journal, and ArtForum. Before becoming a freelance writer, Lord was a syndicated political cartoonist and a columnist for Newsday. She teaches at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.

Contents
1. The Beautiful Somnambulist
2. National Velvet, 1944
3. 1945-1950
4. A Place in the Sun, 1951
5.1951-1955
6. Giant, 1956
7. 1956-1959
8. Suddenly, Last Summer, 1959
9. BUtterfield 8, 1960
10. 1960-1962
11. Cleopatra, 1963
12. 1963-1965
13. The Sandpiper, 1965
14. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966
15. 1967-1973
16. Ash Wednesday, 1973
17. The Litde Foxes, 1981
18. 1982-1984
19. Her Greatest Conscious Gift, 1984-2011
Acknowledgments
Notes
Footnotes
Bibliography
Plate Section