{"id":16412,"date":"2020-08-26T15:09:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T22:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/dodge\/2020\/08\/26\/6-films-to-watch-on-the-100th-anniversary-of-the-womens-suffrage-movement\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T16:34:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:34:49","slug":"6-films-to-watch-on-the-100th-anniversary-of-the-womens-suffrage-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/2020\/08\/26\/6-films-to-watch-on-the-100th-anniversary-of-the-womens-suffrage-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Films to Watch on the 100th Anniversary of the Women's Suffrage Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

100 years after the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the United States, films about female empowerment and crucial moments in women\u2019s rights movements aren\u2019t the easiest to come by.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFilms about suffrage are dependent on very different cultural histories and social movements. A universal story about gaining the right to vote isn\u2019t possible,\u201d said Dr. Kelli Fuery, Associate Professor in Film Studies<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Women\u2019s suffrage was not something that was universally reached, but has varied over decades and centuries from country to country, and is still not a reality in some today. And to make the history even more complex, even when legally being granted the right to vote, it did not always happen in practice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With such a complex history, there are simply so many stories to tell and so many voices to be heard. It would be impossible to get every single perspective represented in Hollywood. Additionally, <\/span>much of women\u2019s history and political activism is ignored in cinema, because it is often seen as not commercially viable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, topics such as female empowerment, the right to vote, and gender equality have been portrayed in cinema in underlying ways. These topics made it to the screen once they began to be written as stories of subversion and escape, which were viewed as more entertaining than <\/span>classic Hollywood melodrama.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGiven the differing cultural and social histories regarding women\u2019s suffrage, cinema subversively responded to the growing call for equality in ways that are easily and often overlooked,\u201d said Fuery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the differences in the movements, these movies were able to portray a shared struggle between all suffrages faced in gaining the right to vote. Dr. Fuery shared her analysis on the importance of the following six key films, all of which highlight the shared struggles in the fight for gender equality:<\/span><\/p>\n

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