Bodyguard Unit
Subtitle: Edith Garrud, Women's Suffrage, and Jujitsu
Edition: First American edition
Publisher: Graphic Universe
Published: 2023
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Translation of: Jujitsuffragettes, les Amazones de Londres
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781728445656
Copyright date: 2023
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.
Notes: Target audience: Ages 14-18 Grades 10-12