The Women's Studies Program will host a screening of the film "Iron Jawed Angels" (2004) and a panel discussion on "Intersectionality and the Women's Right to Vote", Human Science Bldg. RM 169, 5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Schedule
5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - Voter Registration
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m - Film Screening and Panel Discussion
About the film
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote. For more information visit their website.
What will you learn at this event?
This film has been used in courses on our campus to help student's learn and discussion the Women's Suffrage Movement. While this film is a good starting point and brings to light issues facing the second wave suffragist, it is problematic when it comes to inclusion of non-white supporters.
The film does a good job in generating meanings about dominant norms and values, gender roles, and notions of equality. But, in turn, we also see how the suffrage movement was organized around exclusionary practices based on race, gender, class and citizenship.
Throughout history there have been a number of women of African descent that had long been mobilized to counter discrimination and oppression and had been lobbying for universal suffrage through voluntary organizations and Church groups. Since this film touches ever so slightly on this issue in one scene, it is assumed by the audience that that is the end of the story. But we know that isn't true.
The panel discussion will highlight this and many other factors that seem to pit women against one another, all the while reaching for the same goal.
- What is Intersectionality? - Intersectionality is not simply a means of documenting multiple categories of identity; rather, it is a political and historically-located structural analysis of power and hegemony that stems from the knowledge produced from the experiences of marginalized women.
In addition to the film and panel, there will be tables set up to answer any and all questions about registering to vote in Lubbock County. Volunteer deputy registrars will be on hand to officially register you to vote.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
CONTACT: Tricia Earl, Manager/Academic Advisor, Women's Studies Program, T 806.742.4335
