Movies

[susandennis]

After my Napoleon Dynamite misadventure this weekend, I popped in Iron Jawed Angels. I figured it was going to be as dull as Napoleon had been uncomfortable. Wrongo. It was really interesting. When I despair at the number of white males running my world, I need to remember that only 3 years before my mother was born, women could not even vote. It's really amazing. The movie was very romanticized but still did a good job of telling the story.

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[vetch.livejournal.com]

When did American women get the vote?

[susandennis]

Ahhh yes, that would have been good for me to include! 1920. It was very disconcertins, in so many ways, to see a 'modern' world where women were chattle.

[vetch.livejournal.com]

Wow! That seems quite late to me- being from NZ. Everyone got their act together later than us.

[susandennis]

Oh yeah... You guys were way ahead of us and there was even a mention of that in the movie!

[cathboblet.livejournal.com]

know what I particularly love about LJA? Alice Paul indulging in a little self-love. She's usually portrayed as such a dour, hard-ass bitch, so it was delightful to see her getting it on :)

I loved it too. Definitely romanticized, but a heck of a good film all the same, and I can't wait to show the force-feeding scenes to my students some day.

[susandennis]

Oh yeah... Those force feeding scenes were wild. And credible. Yech. That should get your students' attention.

I'm glad to hear you say that about Alice Paul because as I was watching it, I thought, gee, she seems a lot different than I thought she was. But, I didn't know why.