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Lizzie Borden (born Linda Elizabeth Borden in 1950; some sources say 1958)is an American filmmaker, best known for her early independent films Born in Flames (1983) and Working Girls (1986).
Early life and career

The daughter of a Detroit stockbroker, she was originally named Linda Elizabeth Borden. At the age of eleven she decided to take the name of the infamous accused double murderer Lizzie Borden, the inspiration for the children's rhyme, "Lizzie Borden took an axe/And gave her father forty whacks,/When she saw what she had done,/She gave her mother forty-one." Of her announcement to her parents that she was legally changing her name, Borden says, "At the time, my name was the best rebellion I could make."

Borden's films have been said to be united by an "iconoclastic depiction of sex"—notably, she controversially portrayed prostitution as an "economic choice" in her 1986 film Working Girls. Her body of work also investigates race, class, power, capitalism, and the power that money bestows—all from a feminist viewpoint.

Borden's first feature, Born in Flames, was shot and edited over five years with a budget of $30,000, and completed in 1983. Set in a near-future New York City, the film explores the role media plays in culture. What began as a project about white feminist responses to an oppressive government evolved into a story about women of color, lesbians, and white women of various classes mobilizing into collective action. The film concerned the racial, class, and political conflicts in a future United States socialist democracy.

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