Event Description
"We are not asking men for our rights, we are taking them."
"'She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry' resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women’s movement from 1966 to 1971. This film takes us from the founding of NOW, with ladies in hats and gloves, to the emergence of more radical factions of women’s liberation. It does not shy away from the controversies over race, sexual preference and leadership that arose in the women’s movement. This film also does not try to romanticize the early movement, but dramatizes it in its exhilarating, quarrelsome, sometimes heart-wrenching glory."
Press:
"She's Beautiful When She's Angry" captures the excitement, electricity, humor and power of women realizing that they are not crazy, the system is crazy. By showing women as they take this great leap forward in consciousness and activism in the 1960s and early 1970s, Mary Dore makes revolution contagious for the far greater numbers of younger women who are making new leaps of consciousness and activism now. Seeing is believing."—Gloria Steinem
“Profoundly necessary. Inspiring. A powerful reminder that feminist is not a dirty word.” —Sam Adams, Philadelphia City Paper
"Nothing if not timely. It’s touring the country just as the concept of the grassroots movement as the spark for social change is having a moment." —Dani McClain, The Nation
Sponsored by the Thomas R. Kline School of Law, the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages
Film running time: 1hr 32 minutes. Free event. Light refreshments provided.
For information, and to RSVP, please contact Jacqueline Rios at jsr62@drexel.edu. |
