The Bodyguard Unit. Edith Garrud, Women's Suffrage, and Jujitsu
(2023)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Lerner Publishing Group, 2023
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781728494982 MWT16573365, 1728494982 16573365
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Who were the jujitsuffragettes? In the early twentieth century, women in England demanded the right to vote-and faced violent retaliation. Rather than back down, the suffragist group Women's Social and Political Union formed its own security unit. Edith Garrud, a pioneering self-defense instructor, trained them to fight back against abuse and arrest while pursuing long-overdue rights. This graphic retelling of Garrud's life reveals the resilience and (often physical) resistance of her era's voting-rights activists. Featuring an introduction from Elsa Dorlin (Self-Defense: A Philosophy of Violence), The Bodyguard Unit explores an explosive stage of the fight for suffrage
Rated T+
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