The Bodyguard Unit: Edith Garrud, Women's Suffrage, and Jujitsu

By Clément Xavier

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1728445655
• ISBN13: 9781728445656
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Graphic Universe (Tm)
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.1" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 13 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary