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Teresa
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Iron-Jawed Angels
October 27, 2004 - 01:06 AM
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Ladies, and Gents as well...I have found a movie that really spoke volumes to me and I believe that its timing of release on HBO (here in the states) was brillant. This is my first election to vote, a right that even my mother takes forgranted. She refused to watch this movie with me as it is not a "chick-flick" no offense intended. It is a movie with a moral base and yet has the material to change view points, opinions and makes you value what was not originally granted to us as women.
It is a story focused on two determined women; Alice Paul (played by Hilary Swank) and Lucy Burns (Frances O'Connor.) They were the radicals, they broke the rules and the boundaries. They were arrested for political motives, but charged with other crimes because they had done nothing wrong. They simply protested Woodrow Wilson in front of the White House; using messages he himself had spoken. They gave up chances for love, and one collegue (Julia Ormond) gave her life for the cause; 218 sufferagist were arrested during this time.
This is not a movie that is easy, they were jailed, force- fed, beaten, and silenced...but yet they were given the nickname "Iron-Jawed Angels." They were the first, they pushed it...I felt overwhelming pride and at the same time astonishment. I in my lifetime, have never seen those freedoms taken away or non-existent. I do not know what it is like to give up my whole entire life so that all those coming after me may have it better than I did. That is what these women did...well-to-do women gave up their stature so that their daughters would not have to endure the same treatment.
It is a movie I believe every woman should see...I know most will not find it as endearing as I did, but it made me appreciate my right to attend the polls on Nov. 2nd or earlier far more than I would have. You always hear of those that cannot wait to vote in their first election (myself included) but very rarely do they know the women that made it possible for them to vote.
I have included a couple of book titles on the same subject down at the bottom as well as a link to HBO so you may find a schedule of when it is airing. Netflix also carries it if you want to rent it. I just found that it taught me so much, about who women are, what we are capable of. Not why we are better than men, but because we push our bounds, we are passionate and we are in fact equals.
Teresa
www.geocities.com/umhbtexasdem@sbcglobal.net
Titles:
"From Equal Suffrage to Equal Rights: Alice Paul and the National Womans Party 1910-1928" by: Christine Lunardini
"Jailed for Freedom: American Women Win the Vote"
by: Doris Stevens, Carol O'Hare
"Iron-Jawed Angels"
by: Linda Ford and Linda G. Ford
www.HBO.com/films/ironjawedangels
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