Here is the course website. You will find the syllabus, links to assigned readings, and a space to post your responses (part of the course requirements). We’ll discuss more about how to use the website in class. Looking forward to a productive summer!
Your first response (to the film She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry) should be here.
“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” is a documentary that tells us about the history of the Women Liberation Movement, how it was founded and what the main goals and ideas of the movement were. The film covers a timeline from the mid-’60s to the early ’70s, a time when feminism ideals went into masses and unified millions of women all over the country in the hope to achieve more equal roles in society among the sexes. The movie showed interviews with the founders of the feminist movement and leads us through their memories of the movement and the protests that they were a part of.
In my opinion, this documentary brilliantly crushes common stereotypes that some people have about the feminist movement: that feminists are angry, unsatisfied, childless, man-like and man-hating women. Despite these common stereotypes, in the documentary “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” we can see strong and brilliant women that focus their lives and energy in an effort to gain better quality of life for all of the women despite their socio-economic status, race and beliefs. The Women Liberation Movement fought in the middle of 20th century for equal pay, for women’s reproductive rights and against objectification of women’s body. Even thought it is hard to overestimate the importance of feminist’s contribution into our society, I feel like modern women don’t always know about it, nor appreciate it enough.