The Suffragette's Dream (French: Le rêve d'une féministe) is a 1909 French silent comedy film produced by Pathé-Frères.[1]
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Running time | 124 minutes |
| Country | France |
Plot
editA housewife falls asleep and dreams of a world in which gender roles are reversed. She attends a suffrage meeting, where the women denounce men. In a park, men are seen taking care of children and crocheting. A female streetcleaner turns the hose on a man, who is then arrested by two female cops. When the wife wakes up from her dream, her husband is enraged to find that she has not prepared dinner, and he beats her.[2][3]
Influences
editThe Suffragette's Dream is an example of suffragette physical comedy, a type of slapstick which exploited growing concerns over the change in traditional gender roles and social norms in the suffrage era.[2]
References
edit- ^ Antoniazzi, Barbara (18 June 2014). The Wayward Woman: Progressivism, Prostitution, and Performance in the United States, 1888–1917. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-61147-663-7.
- ^ a b Hennefeld, Maggie (27 March 2018). Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes. Columbia University Press. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-231-54706-2.
- ^ Harrison, R. (2018). From Steam to Screen: Cinema, the Railways and Modernity. I.B.Tauris. p. 163. ISBN 978-1-78672-322-2. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
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