Blog #3 Iron Jawed Angels

I learned so much through watching Iron Jawed Angels. I wasn't aware how much women went through just for us to get the right to vote. You always hear about the womens suffrage, but this movie really opened my eyes. There were many tensions between the women throughout the movie. Some of the women didn't support the womens suffrage movement which caused discourse. In the movie when the President had declared war, some of the women wanted to quit because the country was at war and they realized that people are focused on the war. When their main spokesperson died in the movie, Alice Paul runs home and wants to give up. The women always overcame these tensions because they were there for one reason and always found the strength to move on and fight for the right to vote. Alice Paul and the other women achieved their political goals by being relentless and not giving up. When they were sent to jail, Alice Paul refused to eat and caused problems in the jail and it got leaked to the public how these women were being treated in jail and it just showed how much they were not going to give up until they got their way. This movie was really good and I'm very glad that we got the chance to see it because it really opened my eyes to what happened during the womens suffrage movement. I think that this should be a required movie in history classes while you are in high school or junior high. These women were heroes and without their hard work and dedication, we would not have the right to vote. I liked this weeks reading because I believe that it explained feminism better to everyone, hence the title of the book. I feel like the F Word was talking specifically to women, but this weeks book talked to the general public. I think Bell Hooks is a good author.