When I reviewed this film two years ago, I concentrated on the political aspects of the women fighting for the right to vote in Switzerland in 1971. That was the most important thing. Today I'll just add one thing that I forgot to mention. The fight for equality wasn't just a political fight, it was also a fight for sexual equality. Nora and her sister-in-law Theresa both say that they've never had an orgasm. That's understandable in a patriarchal society. Sex is something for the man to enjoy, so why should he try to give his wife any pleasure? I'm not saying that no women in Switzerland in 1971 were sexually satisfied, but if a woman had an orgasm it was an accident, not because her husband was trying to please her.
Nora is a woman of conviction. She stands up against her family, her friends and even the church. When the pastor uses his sermon at a funeral, of all places, to preach that women should submit to their husbands, she stands up and interrupts him, holding a speech of her own. We need more women like that today. We need women willing to stand up in their churches and mosques to contradict the indoctrination of religions invented by men.
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