The Suffragettes film and the transformations in the way of life by the political militancy: subjective displacements, sacrifice of body and feminist affinities

Abstract

In this this paper I discuss the film Suffragette, released in 2015 and directed by Sarah Gavron, from the following themes: the game that Suffragettes practice with the rights, for the main purpose of approving women's vote in England in the early twentieth century; subjective transformations in women that join to suffragette militancy, detaching the relations with their husbands, bosses and children. The text also presents discussions about the sacrifice of women's body in factories, in a political militancy pervaded by an ethic that must be evident not only by words, but also by actions and by use of the body as the expression of truth. In addition, the paper approaches the emphasis given by the film to the feminist affinities among the characters.