Analysis Of Iron Jawed Angels

It’s crazy to think that we once lived in a world where men and women were not treated as equal individuals. A time where men dictated the majority of everything constitutional. Before August 18, 1920, women had no rights to contribute in the uprisings of our country. After years of extreme dedication and perseverance women finally recieved the right to vote. Iron Jawed Angels was the infamous movie that portrayed Alice Paul, the young suffragette and Carrie Chapman Catt, the well-known suffragist. This film depicted all the important dilemmas women faced throughout the years before receiving the rights they deserved. It showed the range of women during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, including the whites, hispanics, and African
The NAWSA, also referred as the old guard accomplished a significant amendment. In the document 22-2, Catt “led the fight for ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote. Her superior skills at organizing were instrumental in national and international efforts to advance women’s rights.” Ironically, in Iron Jawed Angels, Carrie Chapman Catt was seen as one of the smaller villains. Although Catt and the organization contributed to the women’s rights movement, in the movie she slightly held Paul back. Due to their different approaches, Paul decided she had to form the National Woman’s Party in 1916, to take a more confrontational approach. Before becoming the voice of the NWP, Paul was an educated woman, earning her PhD in political science and worked in the settlement movement as a Quaker. Her strategies were inspired by the extreme militant British suffragists, and her well thought out plans were peaceful yet effective. One of the most memorable actions Paul started was the hunger strike that occurred when Paul, alongside her partners, were imprisoned after silently protesting outside the
Feminism became fully active and women began to take public stance to audiences all over the world. Gathering political intellectuals, journalists, and labor organizers, an organization called “The Heterodoxy Club” brought women together to further bring women’s liberation.These women who stood up to what was “the norm at the time” changed the lives for the upcoming generations. In Iron Jawed Angels Emily Leighton is mother of two and when she is asked by her husband why she is putting herself through torment just for the right to vote, she states her number one reason is because of her kids. Her kids inspired and motivated her throughout the process so that in the future they won't have to fight what is rightfully theirs. Other contributing factors to the women’s suffrage movement was World War I. Based on the reading lectures, “It brought some positive results at home: economic opportunity and women’s political participation.” While in the movie, Wilson had been mainly persuaded by Catt’s and Paul’s protests, it is argued that the organizations succeeded because of the “impact of the Great War.” It wasn’t until after WWI where many nations moved to enfranchise women, including Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the