Mona Lisa Smile and Feminism
... ” Mona Lisa Smile In the movie Mona Lisa Smile, directed by Mike Newell in 2003, three eligible women have choices and what they chose grounds them to the roles they play in society and what inevitable leads them to feminism because of the choices they made. Feminism began well before the 1960-70’s to which most people regard as its beginning. The first hint of feminism was in 1792, when Mary Wollstonecraft released her book Vindication of the Rights of Women; however, nothing ever came of her fight for feminism. ... Feminism is the fight for political movement, to contraception, to equality in the home and altering roles of family (Unknown 2). ... The 1950’s was a dead time for feminism, but it was there. In Mona Lisa Smile, we see a world full circle of women who are victims of men and even circumstance. ... Ten years before the feminist movement really embraced women, the women in Mona Lisa Smile were already challenge the role of man and women’s liberation and making choices on their own. ... In Mona Lisa Smile, these women created choices and made them, which was forbidden for that time period. ... The women of Mona Lisa Smile helped pave the path for the liberation women are experiencing today.