The fight to secure voting rights for American women has a long and complicated history. Hollywood’s depictions of suffrage struggles and their aftermath have a history of their own.
Author: Virginia Wright Wexman
Virginia Wright Wexman is Professor Emerita of English and Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of "A History of Film" and many other books and articles on cinema. She has served on the juries of the Tel Aviv Film Festival, the Birmingham Film Festival and the Chicago International Film Festival and is currently on the Board of Directors of the League of Women Voters Los Angeles.