The Bodyguard Unit Edith Garrud, Women’s Suffrage, and Jujitsu
The Bodyguard Unit: Edith Garrud, Women’s Suffrage, and Jujitsu by Clément Xavier is a graphic retelling published by Lerner Publishing Group on August 1, 2023. This edition spans 136 pages and is presented in English. The book focuses on the early twentieth-century suffragist movement in England, highlighting the formation of a security unit by the Women’s Social and Political Union to protect its members from violence while they fought for the right to vote.
Readers will discover the story of Edith Garrud, a self-defense instructor who empowered women to resist abuse and arrest during a tumultuous period in the fight for voting rights. The narrative delves into the resilience of the jujitsuffragettes and their physical resistance against oppression. This work also features an introduction from Elsa Dorlin, providing context to the historical significance of Garrud’s contributions within the broader themes of history, sports, and martial arts.
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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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