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She's Beautiful When She's Angry (2014) on Netflix

NR20141h 32mDocumentaryHistory

Women active in the second wave of American feminism appear in archival footage and interviews. From 1966 to 1971 their concerns include job discrimination, childcare and reproductive health.

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Archival footage, press clippings and interviews record the women of the American feminist movement's second wave. The years covered are 1966 to 1971, when activists raised reproductive health, employment discrimination, affordable childcare and sexuality as political concerns. The account begins with the social climate of the 1960s, Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique and the creation of the National Organization for Women, and notes links to civil rights, the antiwar movement and the New Left. Writers of Our Bodies, Ourselves and former members of the Jane Collective are among those featured.

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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about She's Beautiful When She's Angry (2014)

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  • Mary Dore directed and produced She's Beautiful When She's Angry as her first documentary, having herself been active in the Women's Liberation Movement in the mid-1970s.
  • The filmmakers said they made She's Beautiful When She's Angry to inspire people to keep advocating for gender equality.

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