Iron Jawed Angels Iron Jawed Angels is a film which portrays the women's suffrage movement during the 1920's. The film is a documentary and a drama which uses live action and music to deliver the sympathetic and distressful mood the film creates. An example of the distressful mood is when the suffragists refuse to eat when they go to prison. This shows how passionate and distressed the suffragists are to get the 19th amendment passed, which would give women the right to vote. The films message
The movie Iron Jawed Angels is about a group of women who want to get the right to vote all over North America. The women use many different methods or tactics to get the men to notice them and support their cause, they set up a parade on the day of President Wilson’s Inauguration so that they would get a big crowd. During this parade, none of the men watching thought that it was right for them to be walking the streets trying to get people to change the law, they started to yell insults like “If
we read about women suffragist. The textbook had small little section of what they did to help us. In the end they made Woodrow Wilson the hero of women being able to vote and also the hero of WWI. But Ms. Colon made us watch a movie called “Iron Jawed Angels.” It was the total opposite of what we read in the textbook and made a really great impact on me. The movie made me look at women here before me and the women who fought for my rights in such a different way. The main women in this movie were
it offered a direct connection between those fighting for suffrage and the government that would be able to legislate to make the enfranchisement of women an actual reality. Director Katja von Garnier utilizes D.C. as the setting of her film Iron Jawed Angels that gives deeper insight into women’s fight for suffrage. As a film based on history, it is vital to evaluate its realism, portrayals and historical accuracy, and lessons that can be gleaned, since it will offer as a comparison
The movie “Iron Jawed Angels” epitome the battles and struggles that women encountered in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The controversial tactic warranted a negative reaction was the limited representation of African American women during this women suffrage movement. In the assigned text Gendered Lives, there is information concerning the fact that the fight for equality was for “white”, instead of including “black” women. In my opinion, this movie advocates that theory of the
Katja Von Garnier’s film Iron Jawed Angles takes place in the 1900’s. The moving and extraordinary story tells of a group of young women who sacrifice their lives fighting for women’s right to vote in the United States. The self-motivated group is led by a pair of friends, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. The ambition for the 19th amendment leads this group of women activist to push boundaries in order to receive what they want. The 1912 story has similarities to today’s society where we see activists
The first film I chose was Iron Jawed Angels directed by Katja von Garnier. This movie illustrates the struggle and determination of the women’s suffragette movement of the early 1900’s. The movie highlights the work of a key suffragette, Alice Paul. Alice Paul is a key women in the feminist movement. The women featured in this movie are the women who gained us the right to vote. I think this movie is important for women now to see. Women in today’s society can easily forget the immense struggle
women suffragists.In Iron Jawed Angels by Katja von Garnier, a dramatized depiction of the push for women’s suffrage centralized around efforts and conflicts of NAWSA, National American Women’s Suffrage Association, then later on, the NWA, National Women’s Association. The director accentuates the idea that because NAWSA’s methodologies are
In social studies class we watched the movie The Iron Jawed Angels. This movie takes place in the 1900’s and women have decided to go against the law and want to be able to vote like the men. The movie shows that no men are happy about what's going on and clearly think the woman are stupid and not smart to do such a thing. Men believed that women should not have the right to vote and shouldn't get involved with politics. They also thought that the only thing women can and should do is stay at home
Reaction Paper 1: Iron Jawed Angels “Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity” (von Garnier, 2004, part 10) and that is exactly what courage was viewed as when the women’s suffrage movement erupted in the mid 1800’s and it was quite the uphill battle from there. Iron Jawed Angels captures the height of the women’s suffrage movement with Alice Paul, a liberal feminist, as the front woman on the battle against Congress. Paul’s determination to pass a constitutional amendment can be seen through
Rhetorical strategies hidden in Iron Jawed Angels “The 2004 film Iron Jawed Angels, depicts the movement for women’s suffrage. It tells the story of Alice Paul and Lucy Burns; two of leaders of the movement in the early 1900s.” (Wardle, Maddie, and Samantha Gregson. "Out of the Darkness." Out of the Darkness. Word Press, 18 Nov. 2011. Web. 13 Oct. 2016.) In a literal sense: Iron-jawed, is having a jaw of or like iron; fiercely determined: an iron-jawed will; while an Angel, an individual who performs
The film I choose was Iron Jawed Angels, this film shares the story of Alice Paul, the National Women’s Party, and the historical events of the woman’s suffrage movement that led to the ratification of the 19th amendment. Throughout this paper I will be focusing on the social change and deviance presented throughout the film. The film begins with Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, both of these women are suffrage activists, meeting with Carrie Chapman Catta and Anna Howard, leaders of the National American
Three sets of characters that I feel are good role models are Lucy Burns and Emily Leighton in Iron Jawed Angels, Miriam Thompson and Odessa Cotter in The Long Walk Home, Sister Sunday and Mother St. John in The Mighty Macs. The first set of role models is Lucy Burns and Emily Leighton from the film Iron Jawed Angels. In the film viewers see that Lucy Burns is the best friend and right hand to Alice Paul. Lucy helped Alice reopen the D.C. office and she helped recruit people. There were points in
Women have come a long way to get what they fought for. In the movie Iron Jawed Angels, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns fought for women to get the right of vote with help from a group of friends. This battle took eight years with hard work, tears, and sweat to provide all women the right to vote. It all started on September 1912 in Philadelphia. 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
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
always, but the rest of the characters aren’t that great and feel very one-dimensional. I wish the writers of the show were given one more season to try and find their footing but unfortunately the show was cancelled before it could rise to greatness. Iron
way since then with the addition of not only color and audio, but new techniques and new ideas. Both The Kid and Iron Jawed Angels are very popular films about the early 1900’s. Although they share some common thoughts, but because they were made in two completely different time periods their focuses are far off from one another and their ideas contrast for the most part. Iron Jawed Angels is an HBO film that was released in 2004 about the American women’s suffrage movement. The movie is set in America
Iron Jawed Angels Response The movie Iron Jawed Angels follows the journey of Alice Paul and Lucy Burns in their fight for women’s suffrage in the 1900s. Alice Paul creates the National Women’s Party to fight for the right to vote, using her platform to organize women’s marches and pickets. During a picket she, and many others, are arrested for “obstructing traffic” and she begins a hunger strike in prison when she is not granted the status of a political prisoner. There she is force-fed and through
In the United States there have been three waves of women’s rights movements. The first movement was called the women’s right movement. This movement was mainly focused on white women and their right to vote as well as hold office. (Wood, p.62) The second movement was the women’s liberation movement, also known as radical feminism. This movement mainly impacted college students because college campuses were a great place for radical feminism to emerge. The radical feminists protested the Vietnam
present information about wars and the passing of importance legislation, however there remains prominent gaps in our understanding of women suffrage for equality--"a war that had been going on for half a century". Jennifer Friedes's story "Iron Jawed Angels" produced by Katja von Garnier, underscores the struggle and grief that women suffragists endured, along with providing the viewer with an in-depth understanding of the events, consequences and heroic actions of the activists of the 1920s women's