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More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Alice Paul and the women of the Women's Suffrage movement fight for future generations right to vote and run for office. Sacrificing their health, marriages and the limited amount of freedom they had, women were imprisoned and force fed after picketing and hunger-striking against war-time president, Woodrow Wilson; but survived to see the results of their efforts.
Votes for women. Did you know Edit. Trivia The "Night of Terror" scene where Lucy Burns's hands were handcuffed above her head actually took place. It happened on November 14, With this approach, the film modernizes our political foremothers in an attempt to win new audiences in a postfeminist age.
Allied with the Democratic party and the new president, Woodrow Wilson, Catt continues to support a gradual state-by-state campaign. She is portrayed as traditional, stuffy, and arrogant compared to the playful, optimistic, and impatient Paul who launches public demonstrations, supports a federal suffrage amendment, demands immediate results, and condemns the Democrats and Wilson, even in the midst of war.
While historians have focused on the militant tactics of the new suffragists, the film fixates on their colorful personalities to separate them further from the old guard.
Although the filmmakers try to reinvent the image of the suffragists, the storyline is based on the real troubles and triumphs of the campaign's final years. For an audience new to women's history, it conveys the very serious barriers to women's political participation and social justice.
When the activists are physically attacked as they protest peacefully, the true hostility toward woman suffrage comes alive. Regal Coming Soon.
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Please click the link below to receive your verification email. Cancel Resend Email. You might also like. Subscription Subscription Subscription Subscription. Rate And Review Submit review Want to see. Films, like laws, can be, to borrow from Robert Cover, projections of possible futures upon reality 5. Accordingly, films have normative power : they play an active role in the circulation and promulgation of certain values, popular beliefs, world-views, ideologies, and expectations about, among other things, law, gender and justice.
Moreover, films can elicit different responses from viewers and often in a more immediate register than reading the written words of a legal judgment. To speak of intersectionality is to locate a subject, in a particular moment of interaction along shifting vectors of privilege, based on race, class, gender, sexual identity or expression, age, nationality, or religion. The intersectional self, or the legal subject, is not fixed, but rather fluid, permeable and contradictory.
More recently, it has become the method of choice across disciplines in which feminist scholars have worked to destabilize the universal female subject of much of the orthodox feminist thinking and activism 8. Before the concept of intersectionality became a dominant trope of feminism, scholars and activists had long established how the feminist movement, by furthering the myth of universal sisterhood, was itself reinforcing interlocking systems of domination by ignoring other discursive categories of race, class, disability, age, and nationality that are fluid and shift over time.
Consequently, scholars and activists who explicitly use intersectionality to grapple with gender inequality argue that formal equality — the orthodox liberal view of equality as treating like people alike — is insufficient to effect transformative social projects Its transformative thrust lies in its utility in merging discursive critique with pragmatic anti-subordination tactics Intersectionality is not simply a means of documenting multiple categories of identity ; rather, it is a political and historically-located structural analysis of power and hegemony that stems from the knowledge produced from the experiences of marginalized women.
Nikol G. Rachel Luft and Jane Ward have documented how scholars who fail to account for the structural sources of inequality and oppression turn out a flattened and ultimately empty version of intersectionality. Jennifer Nash finds that in an effort to dismantle essentialism, some feminists lock us into divisive and fractured selves that practically render equality-seeking endeavor to mobilize an exercise in futility The cinematic media may assist in such a project.
Films may invoke in us a desire to understand and possibly even do something about injustice. In each of these scenes, the main protagonist, Alice Paul, encounters interlocutors who insist on the validity of their lived experience, suggest temporary coalition that could destabilize hierarchies within the movement, and invite her to abandon her reductive views of gender equality.
Alice Paul and her contemporaries, however, were part of a new wave of suffragists who were highly educated, yet single, and often childless. These new suffragists sought to expand their pool of allies, especially to forge ties with women in the labour movement.
She was well-versed in classical Marxist critiques of the work structure and she favored solidarity among all workers rather than adopting a universal sisterhood model of social transformation The scene begins as the young factory worker, in close-up shot, performs repetitive tasks in near darkness; there is sweat on her brow and the diegetic sound is a mix of the metal cranks from the factory floor and the voice of Lucy Burns :.
One thousand women marching are better than ten thousand signatures on a piece of paper. Suffrage is not a dead issue. And this is what marching does. Marching shows the politicians that we women are united in our demand for political….
Ruza joins the crowd of women and begins to whisper to the other workers. Screw the politicians. A fire escape could be required by law. We take Sunday off […] we get fired on Monday. You have children missus? If we picket on Sunday […] we get fired on Monday. You have children Missus?
Shout your head off. No one hears you. Alice and Lucy continue to distribute flyers to the women. She makes apparent the class divisions that rendered her concerns quite different in nature from those of her interlocutor ballots will not feed children. The scene is important because it illustrates how working-class immigrant women drew on their everyday lived experiences to raise awareness in more mainstream movements about systemic inequality.
Ruza expresses her distrust of voting as a panacea by drawing on an intersectional analytic : what does a movement wedded to a unitary conception of the female voting subject offer young, under-educated, working-class mothers for whom English is not their first language? It does, however, demonstrate the importance of interactions among differently located women in refining socialist feminist critiques of gendered hegemony.
While Ruza points to how economic status is already embedded in existing political structures, Alice uses that knowledge to articulate how suffrage can actually bring about material change. By adopting a condescending approach, however, she fails to draw on their situated knowledge and instead imposes her own middle-class, educated, single understanding of meaningful social change.
Women of African descent, however, did not obtain full suffrage until well into the s with the advent of the Civil Rights Movement Indeed, women of African descent had long been mobilized to counter discrimination and oppression and had been lobbying for universal suffrage through voluntary organizations and Church groups.
One example is Ida Wells Barnett who stands out for her work to secure universal suffrage; she also devoted her life to further challenge the bans on miscegenation and worked tirelessly to have lynching recognized as a violation of fundamental rights. In , for instance, she gave an impassioned speech insisting that :. Nobody believes the old threadbare lie that negro men rape white women. If Southern men are not careful they will overreach themselves and public will have a reaction.
A conclusion will be reached which will be very damaging to the moral reputation of their women [some parts of her speech refer to the high rates of lynching of black men accused of having raped white women]. When she boarded the Southwestern Railroad train, the conductor refused her access to first class ; she protested and was forcibly removed The decision was reversed, however, on appeal before the Supreme Court of Tennessee.
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