Sympathetic portraits of women aggressively defending
Increasingly conscious of the need for women to stand The interests of Watts and Sanderson were unusualīut not unique. Walking-stick, umbrella, or parasol at the time?" Sanderson proved that the powers of self defence couldīe "developed as readily by members of the fair sex, as by those of the male persuasion". Would a ruffian come off if he attacked thisĪccomplished lady, supposing she had either Quick succession, and the thought arose, how Down slashes, upperĬuts, side swings, jabs and thrusts followed in In the fitness magazine Health and Strength reported that her "blows fell thick and fast. Illustrates her unique system of self defence, which Sanderson was a prominent fencer and instructor Photographs by a woman known only as ‘Miss Sanderson’. This message was spread further in a series of The word that even women from elite backgrounds couldīecome martial athletes and fight off as well as with men. Of the Japanese art of self-defence in the western world.Įntitled The Fine Art of Jujutsu Watts’ book was introducedīy Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford. Roger Watts), one of the first female instructors Published in 1906 by Emily Diana Watts (usually knownĪs Mrs. One of the earliest books in this genre was To physically fend off attacks have a long and provocative ‘How to’ guidelines for women showing them ways The equivalent of the feminist self defence programmeĬalled the ‘Nutcracker’s Suite’ and in the twenty-firstĬentury, enterprising young women are designing Hosted ‘jujitsu parties’ for friends by the 1970s, noĬonsciousness-raising group would be complete without When alone in public places in the early 1900s, they In the 1870s, middle-class women carried ‘dagger-fans’
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