Most of us know next to nothing about Jujitsu as a discipline. Or about the history of martial arts in the West. Or about the suffrage movement apart from the little we are taught in school. Those ideas combine in this book. Here we learn about a couple that started out simply wanting to teach Jujitsu, especially wanting to teach women a few basic skills to protect themselves. They became enmeshed in the suffrage movement at a time in Britain where the conflict was becoming especially violent. The nature of the plot, being driven by fight scenes, lends itself well to the graphic novel format. It does not shy away from stark images and neither side of the conflict is painted in an especially positive light. This is a solid choice for supplementing an existing history lesson plan about the suffrage movement.
Advanced Reader Copy provided by NetGalley
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