Blog 3

I really liked this movie. It made the womens suffrage movement seem much more real to the women of today so they could really feel like they understood what happened all those years ago. They were women just like us. There were many tensions in this film between the older and younger generations of women. The younger generation of Alice Paul wanted to branch out from the more conservative generation of older women because they felt like what had been done so far was simply not enough. They wanted to stand up for themselves and do more daring things like the White House picketing. Alice Paul and the others were willing to sacrifice everything for their cause, including being jailed and locked up in an insane asylum. The theme of this move was of course womens suffrage but more than that it was about the empowerment of women overall.

Response to the Readings:

In the FIFE readings, hooks stresses the fact that feminism is not anti-male and that women themselves can be very sexist. Women need to be aware that how we are raised very much influences our way of thinking in a way that is almost like brainwashing. hooks feels we must understand and change our way of thinking before we can work to change anyone else's mind. She also talks about how the "sisterhood" of women was once a very strong thing and now has weakened because some women have regressed into a more patriarchal way of thinking again. Women need to learn to be more accepting of other women and need to renew the idea of the sisterhood once more. We must also work to end violence against women before real progress can be said to have been made.