Bodyguard Unit: Edith Garrud, Women's Suffrage, and Jujitsu
Bodyguard Unit: Edith Garrud, Women's Suffrage, and Jujitsu
Bodyguard Unit: Edith Garrud, Women's Suffrage, and Jujitsu
Description
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.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"This engaging and informative graphic biography, which includes historical back matter, about an overlooked yet influential suffragist and martial artist deserves a spot in every graphic-novel collection." --starred, Booklist
-- (7/1/2023 12:00:00 AM)"The cartooning, beautifully rendered in muted, old-timey hues, presents information about jujitsu, the inner workings and tensions of the WSPU, and everyday indignities faced by the subjects . . . While enduring themes such as resisting oppression and asserting autonomy abound, the book remains centered on its specific time, place, and people." --The Horn Book Magazine
-- (8/2/2023 12:00:00 AM)"Engaging feminist history attractively presented." --Kirkus Reviews
-- (5/17/2023 12:00:00 AM)"[A]n empowering work both in content and visuals, about the figure who taught women how to take back their power." --Publishers Weekly
-- (6/30/2023 12:00:00 AM)"Captures a well-documented but lesser-known piece of history with acumen, and subtly telegraphs the still relevant experience of employing radical means in an unjust system. . . a unique and involving lens through which to consider an essential moment in modern history." --School Library Journal
-- (11/21/2023 12:00:00 AM)
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