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Movie Review:
Iron Jawed Angels

Iron Jawed Angels is a picture of the plight of women struggle to obtain their rights. The
film is a portrait of that woman to get equal opportunities in political space is not easy.
Required length of time and energy, because to penetrate the fortress called patriarchal very
difficult.
The film of Katja von Garnier tells the life journey of Alice Stokes Paul (January 11 1885-
9 July 1977) is a leader suffrage movement (suffragist) America. Together with her friend
Lucy Burns and others, led the campaign for women's suffrage. Alice struggles and his
friends paid off in the 19th Amendment to the 1920 Constitution of the United States.
Philadelphia in 1912, two women activists in high spirits and have a strong determination
to fight for women's suffrage in politics, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns Carrie Chapman Catt
met with Howard and Anna Shaw (Lois Smith) of NAWSA (National American Woman
suffrage Association). Their goal met two senior activists to seek approval to take over
NAWSA committee in Washington DC Different perspective and think, is it that
distinguishes these two generations. Paul and Burns with a young and rebellious spirit tend to
favor radical ways, to urge the government to immediately clicking constitution amendment
on women's suffrage. In contrast to the conservative Catt and Shaw, who put forward the
approach of state -by -state.
Although different way of thinking, but the similarities in terms of the position of women's
struggle in American politics, encouraging Shaw and Burns gave Paul permission to take
over NAWSA committee in Washington, so long as they find their own funds. The first thing
you planned to achieve this goal is by making a parade promoting women's suffrage, and the
recruiting voluntary team. Paul 's friends in college, Mabel Vernon namely, as well as Polish
nationals industrial workers, Ruza Wenclawska, and Doris Stevens a social worker a
volunteer who is willing to support the struggle of Paul and Burns.
As a fundraiser, Paul met with Inez Mulholland, a labor lawyer, and invited him to join
and are willing to become a major figure in the parade. Paul also met with a Washington
newspaper cartoonist Ben Weissman, and ask him to support this movement by holding it up
to the media.
Originally parade for women's suffrage campaign is running smoothly and under control.
However, later turned into a riot when a group of men who are not happy and this action
mock attack action participants, all of this gender situation need immediately got the attention
of President Woodrow Wilson, who was newly arrived in Washington, because the parade is
intended as a form of resistance to Presidential policy. The next day, the incident made
headlines in the media and Paul - Burns are very satisfied with these achievements. Managed
to bring together a state delegation led by Paul NASWA President who promised to review
the issue being targeted, and they were given the freedom to conduct political lobbying.
Riots in the parade turns making divisions within the NAWSA, particularly between Paul
and Catt. Anger Catt increasingly tapered after Paul and Burns got out NAWSA funds to
publish a newspaper whose goal invitation to women to boycott the President in the
upcoming elections. Differences of opinion ultimately makes Paul - Burns, and several other
volunteers who sided with him to leave NAWSA and formed the NWP (The National
Woman's Party). Competition between NAWSA and the NWP began to grow when NAWSA
criticize NWP strategy in urging the government to take action in front of the White House
and garner public sympathy. NWP louder again in the campaign for a constitutional
amendment to make speeches to various states with Mulholland as an orator.
World War I broke out, U.S. military on alert and is President of the predicted profits
would come back to win in the general election. This situation did not discourage Paul to
continue to fight for women's rights. Peak, they perform the action in front of the White
House to bring charges against the president. This action is done every day. The state of the
State is facing a battle to change the public's view of the struggle of NWP activists. Action
forcibly disbanded by a group of men who are not sympathetic. NWP activists, one of whom
Burns, was arrested on charges of disturbing the traffic, even though they act in troatoar road.
Refused to pay fines for crimes they did not commit, NWP activists were sentenced to 60
days in jail in Occoquan, a women's prison in Virginia . Something similar happened to Paul
when performing the same action in front of the White House. Paul herded into prison on the
same charges. This situation Catt used for political lobbying against the President, but the
President remained adamant in his stance rejecting a constitutional amendment on women's
suffrage.
In prison , Paul went on hunger strikes as a form of rejection of violence by the state. Paul
hunger strike followed by other NWP activists. Rather than stop the action, Paul and others
were forced to ingest food by entering the feeding tube into the mouth and nose. But this
persecution finally uncovered after Paul notes during incarceration exposed in the news
media. Spread the news change public opinion about the struggle of NWP activists, and
nominally dubbed "iron jawed angels". NAWSA opportunity was used to urge President
Wilson amend this rule and NWP activists freed from jail.
In 1920, a total of 36 regions have agreed to ratify the amendment, in which Tennessee
became the last state and also the breakdown of the determinants of this law. On August 26,
1920, the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote and set into constitutional law.
One of the most interesting parts in this film that the dialogue between Alice Paul with a
male physicians, psychologists at the prison and asking questions about the purpose of the
struggle of Alice: "Look into your own heart. I swear to you, mine 's no different. You want a
place in the trades and professions where you can earn your bread, so do I. You want some
means of self -expression, some way of satisfying your own personal ambition, so do I. You
want a voice in government under roomates you live, so do I. What is there to explain ? "
This statement strikes the deepest recesses of the doctors who are also men, in the struggle
to understand the purpose of the group suffragis. And if we reflect on it today, the women are
still alive in the state practiced cultural confines. Access and opportunity for women to
achieve their rights, both as individuals and citizens, is still limited. Struggle Alice Paul and
his companions to mirror women's uprising against the country's legal system does not
recognize and include women from planning to decision making. The struggle of women is
still very long, of course. Patriarchal roots grow in, that sometimes we do not realize. Be
critical and continues to fight all forms of oppression that must always be the case we plant
and we do in order to achieve a better life.