In the Movie "Iron Jawed Angels" Directed by Katja von Garnier 's, writing by Jennifer Friedes and Sally Robinson tells the most powerful and untouched story of a group of inspiring and powerful young women. Alice Paul and her friend Lucy Burns leaded this group of women who put their lives on the line, families and their love life to fight for the American women right to vote. While learning about American history during my school years, all I knew about the Women 's Suffrage that women in the States did not have the right to vote. If it was not for this group of tough women, I have the chance to vote for these 2016 elections. Alice and Lucy was not your typical wealthy woman that the only thing that they could do was to get married and be Alice and Lucy met in England while Alice was studying at Oxford. They both at a police station when they both were arrested after suffrage demonstration. They began to create the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. The two sassy young suffragist activists have a meeting with Carrie Chapman Catt and Anna Howard Shaw NAWSA (National American Woman Suffrage Association, formed in 1890 by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton). The breezy, rebellious spirit of the two younger activists is in stark contrast to the more conservative older women. Paul and Burns want to press for a constitutional amendment for women to have the right to vote. (Mary Walton). Paul is permitted to take over NAWSA 's Washington, D.C. committee, provided she and Burns raise their own funds. (19th Amendment). They begin planning their first big event, a parade to promote women 's suffrage, and recruit a team of volunteers, including Alice 's college friend Mabel, Polish factory worker Ruza and social worker Doris. They began planning to have a parade to get people attentions by getting publicity on the front page on the new paper. Well, they did get to the front I really want to understand the mentality man had back in those times. Why can women have the same opportunities that a man had? In the 19th century man view women as they should focus on the home and domesticity, while he bring the food to the table. From what I can understand is that the man 's roles were view as strong, intelligent and ambitious, while the woman 's role was loving, gentle nature and self sacrificing for their families. On the other hand, Women had no right to vote, or work outside the home, or are involved in politics. Well, they were proven wrong. Out of many others women in the United States, only two fearless women fought for the right to vote in America. Alice was thrown into solitary confinement, goes on a hunger strike, She is then denied counsel, placed in a straitjacket, and subjected to examination in the psychiatric ward just because they thought she was delusion. While she was kept in the psychiatric ward, Paul shows no signs of delusion. She was return to the women jail where she leads the suffragettes on a hunger strike. The warden begins force-feeding them. By far, the most shocking scenes of the film was when Paul’s being force fed to stop her from starving herself to death by refusing food, as have other of the women inmates follow Paul 's
Women were only second-class citizens. They were supposed to stay home cook, clean, achieve motherhood and please their husbands. The constitution did not allow women to vote until the 19th amendment in 1971 due to gender discrimination. Deeper in the chapter it discusses the glass ceiling. Women by law have equal opportunities, but most business owners, which are men, will not even take them serious. Women also encounter sexual harassment and some men expect them to do certain things in order for them to succeed in that particular workplace. The society did not allow women to pursue a real education or get a real job. Women have always been the submissive person by default, and men have always been the stronger one, and the protector. Since the dawn of time, the world has seen a woman as a trophy for a man’s arm and a sexual desire for a man’s
Today, women and men have equal rights, however, not long ago men believed women were lower than them. During the late eighteenth century, men expected women to stay at home and raise children. Women were given very few opportunities to expand their education past high school because colleges and universities would not accept females. This was a loss for women everywhere because it took away positions of power for them. It was even frowned upon if a woman showed interest in medicine or law because that was a man’s place, not a woman’s, just like it was a man’s duty to vote and not a woman’s.
After the success of antislavery movement in the early nineteenth century, activist women in the United States took another step toward claiming themselves a voice in politics. They were known as the suffragists. It took those women a lot of efforts and some decades to seek for the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. In her essay “The Next Generation of Suffragists: Harriot Stanton Blatch and Grassroots Politics,” Ellen Carol Dubois notes some hardships American suffragists faced in order to achieve the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Along with that essay, the film Iron-Jawed Angels somehow helps to paint a vivid image of the obstacles in the fight for women’s suffrage. In the essay “Gender at Work: The Sexual Division of Labor during World War II,” Ruth Milkman highlights the segregation between men and women at works during wartime some decades after the success of women suffrage movement. Similarly, women in the Glamour Girls of 1943 were segregated by men that they could only do the jobs temporarily and would not able to go back to work once the war over. In other words, many American women did help to claim themselves a voice by voting and giving hands in World War II but they were not fully great enough to change the public eyes about women.
Since these individuals were apart of two very important movements their tactics were much the same. The movement relied heavily upon individualism, which allowed those men and women to be able to voice their thoughts openly. The women and men of the movement wholly supported equality for women and strived for women to be seen as an individual and equal-counterpart to men. In Margaret Fuller’s “Woman in the Nineteenth Century” she gives a dis-heartening point on women’s treatment, “It may well be an Anti-Slavery party that pleads for Women, if we consider merely that she does not hold property on equal terms with men; so that, if a husband dies without making a will, the wife, instead of taking at once his place as head of the family, inherits only a part of his fortune, often brought him by herself, as if she were a child, or ward only, not an equal partner.” Margaret Fuller gives an accurate account to how these recurring problem
Carrie Catta and Anna Howard are a bit more conservative than Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. The leaders of the NAWAS do not agree with protesting, marching, and hunger strikes as a way to win their right to vote as they believe that the constitutional amendment that gives women the right to vote will be vetoed in the Senate. The members of the NAWAS group prefer to go state-by-state in order to obtain the right to vote. In the state-by-state approach, each state will determine whether or not they should grant women in the United States the right to vote. Because Alice Paul had a different view from the NAWAS, she decided to leave this group and create her own known as the National Women’s
In a letter to her husband, Abigail asked him to remember the ladies and not give men all then power, and that women have a voice as well “.to be generous and favorable to them than your ancestors …care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to foment a rebellion.” (Doc B) The women finally decided to act and rebel against how their ancestors lived in the past. John Adams responds in a mocking way, scorning her for taking the matter so seriously “As your extraordinary code of laws I cannot but laugh.” And of anger Abigail wrote to Mercy Otis warren saying, “I think I will get you to join me in a petition to congress.” These letters foreshadowed the beginning of the major changes that were to happen soon supporting the development of women’s rights. The doctrine of Separate Spheres advocated by Catherine Beecher, which made middle class men and women more equal but women were still treated unfairly according to the Ladies Repository.” Where Leith the woman’s sphere? The sweet and quiet precincts of her home: Home!” Women began to play a greater role by participating in various reform movements that surfaced from the 1820’s to the 1840’s especially in abolition movements. Early social reform movements were a very important part of woman’s rights. The meetings held by the societies offered woman there first public platform and made more women realize that they should be fighting for
In the beginning of the movie only nine states allowed women to vote. Alice and Lucy wanted support to make it that all women in the United States allowed voting. During the meeting with NAWSA, they were talking about continuing the work for Susan B. Anthony and what happened in England when Alice and Lucy went there. Alice suggests a parade for next march. One of the head leading, Carrie states that
Women throughout the suffrage act were faced with many challenges that eventually led into the leading roles of women in the world today. Suffrage leaders adopted new arguments to gain new support. Rather than insisting on the justice of women’s suffrage, or emphasizing equal rights, they spoke of the special moral and material instincts women could bring to the table. Because of these women taking leaps and boundaries, they are now a large part of America’s government, and how our country operates.
It was Theodore Roosevelt, who stated that, “Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care”, conveying the idea that with no voice comes no change. In the morning of August 26, 1920, the 19th amendment was ratified, which centralized mainly on the enfranchisement of women. Today, they have the legal right to vote, and the ability to speak openly for themselves, but most of all they are now free and equal citizens. However this victorious triumph in American history would not have been achieved without the strong voices of determined women, risking their lives to show the world how much they truly cared. Women suffragists in the 19th century had a strong passion to change their lifestyle, their jobs around the nineteenth century were limited to just children, family, and domestic duties. It consisted of a very low rate of education, and job opportunities. They could not share their opinion publicly and were expected to support their male family members and husbands during the time. Women knew that the way to enfranchisement was going to be tenacious, and full of obstacles along the way. Therefore a new organization was formed, The National American Women Association (NAWSA), representing millions of women and Elizabeth Cady Stanton as the first party president. This organization was founded in 1890, which strategized on the women getting education in order to strengthen their knowledge to prepare for the suffrage fight. NAWSA mainly focused on the right to vote one state at a time. In 1917, a member named Alice Paul, split apart from NAWSA because of the organization’s tactics and major goals. Due to this split, many other suffragists from NAWSA bitterly divided into a new organization named, National Women’s ...
Although these women did not live to cast their votes in an election, their hard work did pay off by obtaining women the right to own property and fight for custody of their children in a court of law. In this day women cannot imagine being thrown out of their homes because their husband had died or being forced to leave their children in order to escape an abusive relationship.
Their method for the push of women’s rights resided in the support from state and local levels of government, or state by state. Lock Jawed Angels takes place when only 8 states had established women’s suffrage in 22 years. NAWSA’s plan was too slow and too passive for women like Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, who joined NAWSA’s Congressional Committee in 1912. DIsplayed as stalwart, brilliant, and passionate, these two women, “worked with Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst in the militant wing of the British suffrage movement.” The British suffrage movement involved more violent and extreme approaches in their pushes; it was not uncommon for women in the British suffrage to have been arrested during protests. Through their participation, “radicalized” Lucy Burns and Alice Paul attempted to institute similar methodologies in America, but NAWSA rejected them utterly. NAWSA believed that although the process was drawn-out, state support would come around and eventually have to be approved by
In 1869, two organizations for the promotion of women’s suffrage were founded with different opinions on how to reach the same goal. The National Women’s Suffrage Association (NWSA) was headed by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. This group opposed the 15th amendment, while suggesting the passage and ratification of another, new amendment, specifically granting women the right to vote. This was considered a more radical view on the matter, and promoted a wide variety of other feminist views as well. The other organization, called the American Women’s Suffrage Association (AWSA), supported the 15th amendment, while calling for yet another amendment for women’s enfranchisement. This organization was more focused on trying to make this and other feminist reforms seem less radical, and more in tune with the values of the American people. After the negative response to the proposal of a new federal amendment, both groups tried new approaches, such as challenging the constitutionality of their exclusion from the vote in the supreme court, only to be rejected again.
Women were perceived as either being a housewife, a nurturer, or a person for company. They did not have the right to vote till later on, work, and if they had an opinion that a male do not agree with, women are considered “wicked”; not savvy, not prudent but wicked to the core. It is unfair, unethical, atrocious, but through it all there was one female who dared to challenge the mind of men and the notion that women can be more than what men perceive them as being. Her name is Margaret Fuller. The goals of Margaret Fuller were precise. Men should realize that women are not an epitome of a statue but human beings, just as men, women can achieve full adulthood and citizenship, but most vitally Margaret aimed to change the assumptions about
The film shows Paul and her cohorts fighting for equality in Washington, DC. When Paul first arrived in DC, she was under the watchful eye of the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA). As Paul fought on, her values no longer lined up with NAWSA, which led to the suspension of her congressional union. In retaliation, Paul relentlessly continued her efforts by starting the National Women’s Party (NWP). The National Women’s Party solely fought for the passage of a constitutional amendment that would grant all United Stated citizens the right to vote. Although the opposing sides often came to a head, Alice Paul makes a great case when she says, “women don’t make the laws, but they have to abide by them”(von Garnier, 2004, part 2). With much determination and a lot of fight, the amendment was finally passed through Congress in
Throughout the 19th century, feminism played a huge role in society and women’s everyday lifestyle. Women had been living in a very restrictive society, and soon became tired of being told how they could and couldn’t live their lives. Soon, they all realized that they didn’t have to take it anymore, and as a whole, they had enough power to make a change. That is when feminism started to change women’s roles in society. Before, women had little to no rights, while men, on the other hand, had all the rights.