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Apr 15, 2020 · Shirley: Directed by Amma Asante. With Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne, Elizabeth Banks, Kayli Carter. Shirley Chisholm makes a historic run for president, while Gloria struggles to play politics at the DNC. Phyllis takes her new anti-ERA organization national.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Amma Asante
- 2020-04-15
Apr 16, 2020 · White feminism is a hell of a drug. A recap of Shirley, the third episode of Mrs. America, which focuses on the presidential run of Shirley Chisholm, played by Uzo Aduba.
- Jen Chaney
- TV Critic
Apr 24, 2020 · Episode three explores the thorny intersection of race and gender on both sides of the ERA debate. Rep. Shirley Chisholm (Uzo Aduba), the first black woman elected to Congress, makes a historic...
- meredith.blake@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
Apr 16, 2020 · Culture. Movies & TV 2023. Mrs. America: Who Was Shirley Chisholm, the Trailblazing 1972 Presidential Candidate? Uzo Aduba plays the first black congresswoman in FX's 'Mrs. America.' By...
- 2 min
- Phyllis Schlafly
- Fred Schlafly
- The Note-Taking Incident
- Alice
- The “Breadmakers” Campaign
- Gloria Steinem
- Betty Friedan
- Shirley Chisholm
- Bella Abzug
- Jill Ruckelshaus
Just as in real life, Phyllis Schlafly, the show’s prim, blond antihero, built her career advocating for traditional women’s roles and mobilizing conservative opposition to the women’s liberation movement. As portrayed by Cate Blanchett, who is also an executive producer on the show, Schlafly proves a consistently underestimated, fearsomely intelli...
In the show, Fred Schlafly (John Slattery) is portrayed as the sort of benignly patronizing male figure that has become familiar from period dramas like Mad Men, in which Slattery also starred. He is handsome, successful, charming, self-interested, and condescending. Though Fred claims to be supportive of his wife’s political ambitions, he privatel...
Early episodes depict Schlafly repeatedly being belittled, ignored, and harassed in her political dealings by men less qualified and knowledgeable than she is. At one point, she is asked to take notes in a meeting as though she were a secretary. While it’s unclear whether the specific details of these interactions are based in fact, the treatment d...
In the show, Schlafly becomes politically interested in the ERA after her friend Alice (Sarah Paulson), a housewife and homemaker, expresses fears that the amendment would eliminate benefits like alimony and Social Security and result in women being drafted into the military. Alice later becomes an animated supporter of Schlafly’s conservative camp...
Like her or not, Schlafly was an effective political organizer. Her grassroots campaign, composed largely of conservative women and homemakers, was unexpectedly successful in halting the ratification of the ERA. The show accurately depicts Schlafly’s campaign tactics, which relied heavily on letter writing and employed traditional symbols of the Am...
The miniseries’s second episode, “Gloria,” tracks how the charismatic and distinctively coiffed Steinem (Rose Byrne) became the spokeswoman for the women’s liberation movement. The real Steinem, who is still alive and active at the age of 86, remains one of the most recognizable leaders of the women’s rights movement. The miniseries is quite accura...
A founding architect of the women’s liberation movement, Friedan (Tracey Ullman) co-founded the National Organization for Women in 1966, and her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is a landmark text of modern feminism and helped launch the second-wave movement. Friedan is depicted as an outspoken and somewhat bombastic figure, which tracks with histor...
In Mrs. America’s third episode, “Shirley,” Chisholm, an extraordinary civil rights leader, the first black woman ever elected to Congress, receives long-overdue attention for her role in shaping the women’s rights movement and carving out a space for women of color within the predominantly white feminist agenda. One of the plots that emerges early...
“Battling Bella” Abzug was a civil rights lawyer turned congresswoman at the time of the ERA’s passage. During her terms in Congress, she lobbied against the Vietnam War and introduced what would have been the first federal law to protect gay people from discrimination. She is portrayed in the show as the matriarch of the liberation movement, a sav...
Portrayed by Elizabeth Banks, the pro-choice Republican was appointed by President Gerald Ford to help push for the ratification of the ERA and was another co-founder of the National Women’s Political Caucus. She also served on the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Like Friedan, she comes more into focus in later episodes.
- Cornelia Channing
She's here to shake the system up. Uzo Aduba is Shirley Chisholm in Mrs. America. Watch new episodes Wednesdays, exclusively on Hulu.Subscribe now for more M...
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Apr 16, 2020 · Directed by Amma Asante ( Belle, A United Kingdom ), Mrs. America episode 3, “Shirley,” focuses mainly around the travails of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm (Uzo Aduba), a founding member...
