Victoria Woodhull

America’s Victoria, Remembering Victoria Woodhull is a wonderful chronicle of the life of one of the most important and unrecognized women in US history. Although she was a radical suffragist, she refused to restrict her Presidential campaign to the issue of women’s suffrage.Instead, she advocated a single sexual standard for men and women, legalization of prostitution and reform of marriage. America’s Victoria combines rare archival images, Woodhull’s own words (voice over performed by actress Kate Capshaw), and illuminating interviews with contemporary feminist, Gloria Steinem to present a fascinating portrait of this remarkably brave woman.

America’s Victoria, Remembering Victoria Woodhull was featured at the annual Montreal/Quebec International Film Festival 2010 – honoring 90th year women got the vote!

Victoria Woodhull burst onto the stage with America s most radical reformers, reoriented their movements, and was gone. People listened to her. A congressional committee reported on her interpretation of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments. She was the first woman to run for president of the United States and the first presidential candidate to spend election day in jail. Harriet Beecher Stowe and Catherine Beecher used their cultural leverage to label her a tramp. Anthony Comstock declared war on her for distributing obscene materials. She almost brought an end to Henry Ward Beecher s career. America’s Victoria is a biography of this enigmatic figure in American history, the daughter of a swindling father and a spiritualist mother, who remade herself several times to become a Wall Street broker, a radical reformer, and, with her third husband, a British lady of the manor. The story is told by a narrator, several commentators, and readings from Woodhull s speeches and contemporary documents. —The American Journal of HistoryVictoria Woodhull was a fascinating woman, way ahead of her time, an advocate not only of women’s suffrage but of legalized prostitution, equality in marriage, and free love, by which she meant a commitment untrammeled by governmental regulations. She ran for president four times and generally lived a life imagined by most women (and men) of her day. She is described as electrifying, larger than life, and flamboyant. Interviews with Gloria Steinem, Ellen Dubois (a UCLA historian), and others are filled with enthusiasm and admiration. Recommended for Women’s Studies collections. —Library Journal

“Victoria Woodhull teaches us to be daring, creative and outrageous. She is a woman who came from nothing and look at all she accomplished!” – Gloria Steinem