Not for Ourselves Alone The film I saw this week was Not for Ourselves Alone, produced by Ben Burns, Paul Barnes and written by Geoffrey C. Ward in 1999 The documentary articulates the suffrage movement in the United States, along with biography of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. In summary, the film spends a significant amount of time on the period following their deaths. Thus, the film provided insight into strategic moments in the history of women's suffrage and insights into the lives of two women. Not for Ourselves Alone delved into Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Station's relationship with their parents, however, the primary focus is directly integrated on their parents. strong-willed fathers. Susan B. Anthony never married; however, Elizabeth Cody Stanton did and found herself surrounded by family and often tied up. However, there were brief glimpses of the difficult economic times and their religious biases. The film focused on Anthony and Stanton's determination in the women's rights movement and covered the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. The Seneca Falls convention is where the battle began, the battle for legislation and protection of a married woman's property rights. However, the filmmakers did not mention additional accomplishments in 1848 such as “the abolition of slavery in the West Indies, the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican-American War, the publication of the Communist Manifesto, and the revolutions that broke out in France and in America." Germany” (McCann & Kim, 2013, p. 12). Therefore, the women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls in 1848 can be considered the progenitor of women's liberation, however, limiting itself to...... middle of the paper ...... archy is a set of social relations between men, which have a material basis and which, although hierarchical, establish or create interdependence and solidarity between men which allow them to dominate women” (Hartman, 1981, p. 192). Works Cited Hartmann, H. (1981). The unhappy marriage between Marxism and feminism: towards a more progressive union. In C. R. McCann & S. Kim (Eds.), Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives (3rd ed.) (pp 182–201). Hewitt, N. (2001). Rerooting American women's activism: Global perspectives on 1848. In C. R. McCann and S. Kim (Eds.), Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives (3rd ed.) (pp 31-39). McCann, CR and Kim S (2013), Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives (3rd ed.) (pp 11-27). McCann, C.R. and Kim S. (2013), Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives (3rd ed.) (p. 161-173).