1 thought on “June 4”

1. Naho Hirohata June 4, 2019 at 12:03 pm

   She Is Beautiful When She Is Angry is a documentary about second wave feminism between 1966 and 1971, during the presidencies of Nixon and Hoover. Various women’s groups started talking and demonstrating about reproductive rights, employment equality, childcare, and health education. It shows how by making the personal political through sharing stories of common experiences, women changed the paradigm around for example abortion and rape. A strength of the movie is that it shows feminism as intersectional, adaptable and still developing. The movie does this for example by highlighting the individual struggles of black, lesbian, and poor white women, that had certain particulars despite still being for women’s liberation. Black feminism was especially complex, because of the conflict of interest between racial representation and access to abortion. The movie also points out the fact that Our Bodies Our Selves was successful because it was adaptable to different cultural differences. She Is Beautiful When She Is Angry ends with contemporary struggle for women’s rights, that still includes issues of reproductive rights nd sexul assault. Indeed, the US is a long way from the “social, economic, and political equality of the sexes.” She Is Beautiful When She Is Angry is a very ambitious movie, about an important history. Because of its breadth, it covers each women’s group only briefly. For example, I would have liked to know more about the abortion services provided by the Janes in Chicago. It however successfully shows the necessity for women’s liberation and the tact of various organizers.

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