Les recuerdo que para el siguiente martes deben entregarme un pequeo

comentario dela pelcula "Iron Jawed Angels" (Angeles de Hierro) que vimos esta
semana. Lo que tienen que hacer es asumir la posicin de alguno de los autores o textos
que analizamos en la clase del 9 de setiembre y expresar cul sera la posicin de este
autor sobre el sistema poltico imperante en ese momento y la lucha emprendida por las
protagonistas del filme.

Iron J awed Angels is a 2004 American drama film. It was directed by Katja von Garnier and
starred Hilary Swank as suffragist leader Alice Paul, Frances O'Connor as activist Lucy
Burns, Julia Ormond as Inez Milholland, and Anjelica Huston. It focuses on the American
women's suffrage movement during the 1910s. The film received acclaim at the Sundance Film
Festival.
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Much of the principal photography was done in Richmond, Virginia.
The film follows political suffragists leaders Paul and Burns as they use peaceful and
effective nonviolent strategies, tactics, and dialogues to revolutionize the American feminist
movement to grant women the right to vote. This film is unrated by the MPAA.
Contents
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1 Plot
2 Origin of title
3 Cast
4 Awards and nominations
5 References
6 External links
Plot[edit]
The film begins as Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and Lucy Burns (Frances O'Connor) return
from England, where they participated in the British suffragemovement. Once the pair becomes
more active within the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), and
organize the 1913 Women's Suffrage Parade on the eve of President Woodrow Wilson's
inauguration, they begin to understand that their ideas were much too forceful for the
established leaders, particularly Carrie Chapman Catt (Anjelica Huston). The pair leave
NAWSA and found the National Women's Party (NWP), in their minds effecting a better way to
fight for women's rights.
Over time, problems occur as NAWSA leaders criticize NWP tactics, such as protesting against
a wartime President (Wilson) and picketing outside the White House in the Silent
Sentinels action. Male supremacists famously (and infamously) label the women "iron-jawed
angels." Relations between the American government and the NWP protesters also intensify,
as many women are arrested for their actions, though the official charge is "obstructing traffic."
The women are sent to the Occoquan Workhouse for 60-day terms where they suffer under
unsanitary and inhumane conditions. During this time, Paul and other women undertake
a hunger strike, during which paid guards force-feed them milk and raw eggs. News of their
treatment leaks to the media through the husband of one of the imprisoned women, a U.S.
Senator, who has been able to lobby for a visit (the suffragists are otherwise unable to see
visitors or lawyers) by putting a letter in his shirt. Pressure is put on President Wilson as the
NAWSA seizes the opportunity to try for the nineteenth amendment to the Constitution.
Paul, Burns, and all of the other women were all pardoned by President Wilson.
Origin of title[edit]
The film derives its title from Massachusetts Representative Joseph Walsh, who in 1917
opposed the creation of a committee to deal with women's suffrage. Walsh thought the creation
of a committee would be yielding to "the nagging of iron-jawed angels" and referred to the
Silent Sentinels as "bewildered, deluded creatures with short skirts and short hair."
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