The Humanities Film Series presents

LITTLE WOMEN

Saturday, October 13, 7-9 PM

ETC Lecture Hall

Little Women (1994), based on Louisa May Alcott’s novel of the same name, features Winona Ryder as Jo March with Trini Alvarado, Kirsten Dunst and Claire Danes as her three sisters. The film follows the coming of age of Alcott’s Little Women, four sisters growing up in a family of a Transcendentalist bent (like Alcott’s own) and living in the years during and immediately following the American Civil War. Jo’s and her sisters’ trials present Alcott’s views on the struggles for women in postbellum America and her beliefs about how American women should embrace aspects of the domestic sphere like marriage and motherhood while stepping into the world, in this case as writers (like Jo) and artists (like Amy).