Women History
Coming into this class I felt I was going to be one of the only people who knew so little about women’s history. I can not remember being in high school and really learning much about women’s history. All our social studies classes were built around American and world history and the only thing we would hear about women’s history would be a brief overview of how women gained the right to vote. I did not even really know about suffragists or what they actually did to gain these rights.
I felt way behind coming into the class, but I wanted to take this class to get away from my usual math and science classes. However, after reading the blog posts every week I feel that I am sitting pretty average in the class. The movie “Iron Jawed Angels� looked like it would have been a great movie from the clips we watched in class. I had never seen or heard of the suffering those women went through on that movie. The movie gave me a new perspective on women’s history and I plan to watch the whole thing some time this week.