Women's Suffrage in Iron Jawed Angels

1. WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE
● IN THE UNITED
STATES
● BRITAIN
● SPAIN

2. WHAT WAS THE WOMEN'S
SUFFRAGE?
● Women's suffrage is
the right of women to
vote.
● It is also used for the
economic and political
reform movement aimed
at extending these rights
to women and without
any restrictions or
qualifications such as
property ownership,
employement or marital
status.

3. The suffrage movement was a very
broad one
● In Britain: The Women's Social and Political
Union with Emmeline Pankhurst as its most
important representator. She was arrested and
sent to prison in serveral occasions between
1907 and 1917, together with other suffragists.

4. WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE IN BRITAIN
● Women's suffrage in Britain was part of a
gradual improvement in women's rights. The
movement also campaigned for the right to
divorce a husband, the right to education, and
the right to have a job such as a doctor.

5. WOMEN SUFFRAGE IN BRITAIN
● 1912 was a turning point for
the Suffragettes, using more
militant tactics such as
chaining themselves to
railings, setting fire to
mailbox contents, smashing
windows and occasionally
detonating bombs
● The First World War provided
the first opportunity for
women to take on traditional
male jobs

6. IMPORTANT FACTS DURING THE
CAMPAIGN
● At the end of the war,
in 1918 the
Representation of the
People Act gave
women over 30 the
vote, and in 1928 all
women over the age
of 21.
● Emily Wilding died
after stepped in front
of a horse running in
the Epsom Derby

7. The Suffrage movement was a very
broad one
● In the United States two important groups:
● THE NAWSA, NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE
ASSOCIATION.
● THE NWP,NATIONAL AMERICAN PARTY,
where the characters of the film Iron Jawed Angels
took part.

8. WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE IN THE US.
● Woman suffrage
started in 19th
Century, culminating
in 1920.
● World War I provided
the final push for
women's suffrage in
America. Members of
the NWP held up
banners saying that
the United States was
not a democracy.

9. WOMEN'S SUFRAGE IN THE U.S.
IMPORTANT REPRESENTATORS
WHICH APPEAR IN THE FILM
IRON JAWED ANGELS.
● ALICE PAULS
● LUCY BURNS
● DORIES STEVENS
● RUZA WENCLAWSKA
● CARRIE CHAPMAN
● INEZ MILLHOLLAND
● As NWP's members, upon
arrest, went on hunger
strikes in 1917.

10. The Suffrage movement was a very
broad one
PRECURSORS OF
THE SPANISH
SUFFRAGE
● CONCEPCIÓN
ARENAL
● EMILIA PARDO
BAZÁN

11. The WOMEN'S Suffrage in Spain
● In Spain, the most important representators of
Woman Suffrage were:
● CLARA CAMPOAMOR
● MARGARITA NELKEN

12. The WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE IN
SPAIN
● During Second
Republic (1931-1936)
women were granted
many new rights of
which they had been
hitherto deprived.
● Spain was therefore
one of the first among
South European
states to enfranchise
women.

13. THE WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE IN
SPAIN
● In 1932, laws on divorce
and civil marriage were
passed. Women were
accorded full legal status ;
abortion was legalised, the
crime of adultery was
abolished and legal
measures ensuring
women's equal access to
the labour market were
taken.

14. The end of women's freedom in
Spain and its later restauration
● After the Spanish Civil
War,Franco's dictatorship tolled the
knell of all those democratic rights.
● Numerous democratic laws
were abolished: the laws on
civil marriage and divorce.
Abortion was severely
punished. Women's legal
ability was greatly restricted,
and subjected to the
authority of the father or the
husband.
● In transition to democracy
(1975-1978),women's legal
ability was restored and
extended.

15. SOME OF THESE HISTORICAL
EVENTS WILL APPEAR IN THE
FILM:

16. SOME SCENES OF THE FILMS
WERE SHOT ACCORDING TO
OLD PHOTOS OF THE AGE IN
ORDER TO GIVE MORE REALISM
TO THE STORY

17. FOR EXAMPLE
PICKETING WITH SIGNS

18. Inez Millholland on a horse in the
Washington March, 1913

19. The fight is won and women were
given the right to vote

20. HOPE YOU ENJOY THE FILM!
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