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Iron
Jawed Angels
Alice
Paul (1885-1977), a Penn alumna who made history in her
lifetime as a suffragist who fought for and ultimately
won the right to vote for women in America will be portrayed
by Hilary Swank in the HBO films presentation, Iron
Jawed Angels. It premieres on Sunday, February 15
at 9:30 p.m. For more information about the film see www.hbo.com/films/ironjawedangels/.
Alice
Paul received her Ph.D. at Penn in 1912 with a dissertation
on the legal status of women in Pennsylvania. The SSW
alumna went on to chair the Congressional Committee of
the National American Women's Suffrage Association, which
succeeded in winning the vote for women in 1920. She
wrote the Equal Rights Amendment, and founded the National
Woman's Party and World Woman's Party.
Upon
her death, on July 9, 1977, at 92, Penn's Association
of Women Faculty and Administrators (AWFA) set up the
Alice Paul Awards in her honor, and the Women's Studies
Program named its research arm the Alice Paul Center
for Research on Women and Gender.
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