Reaction Paper 1: The Iron-jawed Angels “Courage in women is often confused with madness” (von Garnier, 2004, part 10) and that's exactly what courage was considered when the women's suffrage movement erupted in the mid-1800s and the battle from there on was quite an uphill one. Iron Jawed Angels captures the height of the women's suffrage movement with Alice Paul, a liberal feminist, leading the battle against Congress. Paul's determination to pass a constitutional amendment is reflected in his fearless efforts to go against the societal norms of the time and fight for women's rights. Through the first wave of the women's suffrage movement seen in Iron Jawed Angels, the struggles women endured for equality have a lasting impact on the film. The film shows Paul and his cohorts fighting for equality in Washington, DC. When Paul arrived in Washington, she was under the watchful eye of the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA). As Paul continued to fight, his values ​​no longer aligned with those of NAWSA, leading to his union's suspension in Congress. In retaliation, Paul relentlessly continued his efforts by establishing the National Women's Party (NWP). The National Women's Party fought solely for the passage of a constitutional amendment that would grant the right to vote to all American citizens. Although the opposing camps have often clashed, Alice Paul makes a strong argument when she states: “women do not make the laws, but they must respect them” (von Garnier, 2004, part 2). With great determination and much struggle, the amendment was finally passed by Congress in. At the beginning of the film, the majority of the women we see representing NAWSA are upper-class white women, but as the film progresses, the fight becomes more social and ethnic. miscellaneous. At one of Paul's demonstrations in Washington, they speak to female factory workers who don't know that they should be able to vote for something like installing a fire exit in the factory. Gaining support from working-class women was very important to the movement, as these women bear the brunt of society's negative views and are most affected by societal hardships. Paul's feminist movement received additional support from Ida B. Wells, an African-American women's rights activist, on the condition that they be allowed to march with white women, not behind them. Although this small aspect of the film does not go into depth about the racist issues also present at the time, it made me think of Sojourner Truth's speech "Ain't I a Woman?" » Representation of all races and classes is imperative in the fight for women's equality, because African American women are women too, color doesn't matter. When Emily Leighton shows growing interest in the movement, she is very shy at first because she would go against her husband, a prominent politician, to fight for something that 'he doesn't support. When Emily becomes more interested and goes to the NWP office to get