The Suffragette Movement: Through Anguish and Resolution Emancipation Was Achieved
The Suffragette Movement: Through Anguish and Resolution Emancipation Was Achieved

Summary/Abstract: Women have always struggled to have an equal life for ages. It was in the eighteenth century when big steps started to be taken towards women’s emancipation. Several women expressed their demands through their writings, and some others took action to ameliorate their standards. Among such determined as well as strong women, it was the suffragettes who attempted to do more than expressing their desires through writing. The Suffragette Movement was a women-only movement that was initiated in England at the very beginning of the twentieth century. Suffragette (Diren!, Gavron, 2015)– a historical drama film directed by Sarah Gavron and released in 2015 – is about the suffragettes and the Suffragette Movement. Within this scope, this paper aims to focus on the Suffragette Movement in the UK. The focus of the first part of the paper will be on what triggered the initiation of this movement. The second part will dwell on the Suffragette Movement itself and how it is presented in the film.

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