May
21
The Perceived Risk of Granting Women Their Voting Rights
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(What is From the Field? Check out the series welcome post to learn more!) The post that follows is the last of this segment on the film Iron Jawed Angels. Katja von Garnier’s 2004 film, Iron Jawed Angels illustrated the events of the 1920’s women’s suffrage movement, as well as the challenges they faced from an […]
Apr
23
The Contemporary Parallels of Iron Jawed Angels
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(What is From the Field? Check out the series welcome post to learn more!) As depicted in Iron Jawed Angels, only a hundred years ago were women arrested and carried away by police simply for peacefully protesting for their right to vote. Now, one hundred years later, white women in the United States celebrate the anniversary […]
Mar
25
Bringing the Struggle of Women’s Suffrage to Life: The Intersection of Gender and Race in Iron Jawed Angels (From the Field)
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(What is From the Field? Read our series welcome post as well as the introduction to this spring’s segment to learn more!) The Suffragist Movement in the United States served as a huge victory for American women in the early 1900s. It became a symbol of the trials and tribulations that women had to […]
Mar
25
The Road to Freedom is Fraught with Struggle: Discerning the History of Women’s Suffrage through Iron Jawed Angels. (From the Field)
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(What is From the Field? Check out the series welcome post to learn more!) Robin Lauermann, Professor of Politics This spring’s segment of From the Field features posts from students in the department’s Gender, Family and Politics course this past fall. During the course, the students analyzed the film Iron Jawed Angels in light of historical […]