Bodyguard Unit
Edith Garrud, Women''s Suffrage, and Jujitsu
Published on 1. August 2023
978-1-7284-9496-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
File size
35,77 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-7284-9496-8 (9781728494968)
