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Celebrities as manufacturers create themselves --and Taylor's manufacturer, in its most remarkable excursions, has repeatedly launched an extensive market to feminist ideas. In her breakout movie, "National Velvet" (1944), Tayloris personality problems sex discrimination,: Banned like a woman to experience her favorite horse within an important competition, she presents as a male jockey. Her next landmark, "A Location in sunlight" (1951), is visible being an abortion-rights film--a cautionary story from the period before women had ready use of contraception. In "Butterfield 8" (1960), which is why she won an Oscar, Taylor is not censured because sheis a hooker, but because she selects the guys: she handles her libido, a primary tenet of the 3rd-wave feminism that appeared in the 1990s.