Emily

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 Ella Es El Matador, the first of three super BUST-y POV docs we featured in our Aug/Sept issue's 'Fall Preview' will finally be premiering on PBS on September 1st, and it's required viewing for anyone fascinated with the notion of female bullfighters in Spain.

Here's more from PBS:

'For Spaniards - and for the world - nothing has expressed their country's traditionally rigid gender roles more powerfully than the image of the male matador. So sacred was the bullfighter's masculinity to Spanish identity that a 1908 law barred women from the sport. Ella Es el Matador reveals the surprising history of the women who made such a law necessary and offers fascinating profiles of two female matadors currently in the arena: the acclaimed Mari Paz Vega and neophyte Eva Florencia. These women are gender pioneers by necessity. But what emerges as their truest motivation is their sheer passion - for bullfighting and the pursuit of a dream.'

Cool right? Click here for local listings, the trailer, and more.

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written by Megan, August 28, 2009
eeek... bullfighting is so inhumane, I don't care who is doing it. Sorry, I can't watch...
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written by kym, August 29, 2009
yeah, i'm with Megan on this one too. Bullfighting, regardless of which gender the matador identifies with, can hardly be considered "sport", especially given that the bulls are generally beaten, electrocuted, speared and exhausted before they even enter the arena. i personally find the whole concept sickening, and would prefer to see equality achieved via humane means of prohibiting ANYONE from "competing" as a matador. but hey, i've not seen the doco so i can't judge the motives of the women featured in it, might have to see if i can stream it online here in Australia, watch it on an EMPTY stomach, and then get back in touch....?

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