Sentences with phrase «early feminist movement»

White middle - class women in the early feminist movement failed to appreciate the benefits they had through patriarchal gender roles and even through the law of coverture that completely subsumed a wife's rights under her husband's in the 1800s.

Some historians suggest that the right to a pain - free labor was part of the early feminist movement and also helped increase the number of women having hospital births.

The movement to medicalize birth was led partly by urban middle - class women associated with the early feminist movement, who thought the freedom from pain promised by anesthesia would be empowering.

We've got a first glimpse from the film SUFFRAGETTE, with Carey Mulligan starring as Maude, a foot soldier of the early feminist movement who...

Production designer Alice Normington has worked on various projects set in the Victorian era — a TV movie adaptation of Great Expectations, among others — and stepped into the Edwardian era with great enthusiasm on Sarah Gavron's Suffragette, a film about the early feminist movement in London.

That pretty much every single awful thing that was brought down upon the women foot soldiers of the early feminist movement is brought down upon Maud Watts makes her plight that much more surreal and distant.

SUFFRAGETTE is the story about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who -LSB-...]

Sarah Gavron's Sufragette, is set in the early 20th century film about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement in the UK, stars Carey Mulligan, Meryl Streep, Helena Bonham Carter and Natalie Press.

As the title suggests, the film focuses on the early feminist movement, with Streep taking on the role of Emmeline Pankhurst.

She knew very little about the early feminist movement and her grandmother's role and influence in it.