The FX on Hulu series, starring Cate Blanchett as Phyllis Schlafly, is compelling, ambitious drama about a subject rarely tackled on television.
Historical dramas about the women’s right’s movement have not exactly been the bread and butter of series television, no matter the decade. The list of scripted narratives that have chronicled the achievements of suffragettes, mid-century feminists or even modern #MeToo disrupters is short. It’s as if the leap from June Cleaver to “” happened organically, without the help of legions of women who struggled, marched and fought.
If we’re honest, most folks will probably need to first Google “ERA” in order to recall, or discover, what the protests, campaigns and social upheaval was all about. The Equal Rights Amendment was, and is, a constitutional amendment that guarantees legal gender equality for women and men. Generations of feminists, and humans of various stripes, pushed for it — a movement that reached its zenith in the 1970s. It still hasn’t been ratified.
Never a hair out of place, always in a dress and heels, she practically arrives on each scene with a freshly baked cake — and reams of antifeminist literature. Her following of homemakers and traditionalists like Alice Macray and Rosemary Thomson , believe her when she claims that “Libbers” will take away their choice to be wives and mothers, that they’ll be forced to work and — worst of all — that they’ll be drafted.
Gloria Steinem , Shirley Chisholm , Bella Abzug and Betty Friedan , all founders of the National Women’s Political Caucus, are warriors. The ‘50s were dark, the ‘60s revolutionary. The ‘70s are ready for lasting change, and they’re ready to bring it.The divisions among their ranks is where the drama really heats up, and strikes more than one painfully topical nerve.
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