Did That Really Happen?

Wonder Woman, Part II


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It's the second half of our Wonder Woman episode! Join us for a discussion of suffragettes, women warriors, and more!

Sources:

Suffragettes:

Camila Ruz & Justin Parkinson, "'Suffrajitsu': How the suffragettes fought back using martial arts," BBC News Magazine (October, 2015) https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34425615

Karen Abbott, ""The Hatpin Peril" Terrorized Men Who Couldn't Handle the 20th-Century Woman" Smithsonian Magazine (24 April 2014) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hatpin-peril-terrorized-men-who-couldnt-handle-20th-century-woman-180951219/

Tao Tao Holmes, "The Suffragettes Who Learned Martial Arts to Fight for Votes," Atlas Obscura (3 November 2015) https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/suffrajitsu

Drunk History "Suffragettes Learn to Fight with "Suffrajitsu"" https://youtu.be/n38bf7c82Pc

https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/electionsvoting/womenvote/keydates/

Vicky Iglikowski-Broad, "Suffragettes and the Black Friday protests: 18 November 1910" The National Archives https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/suffragettes-and-the-black-friday-protests-18-november-1910/

Bios: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/garrett_anderson_elizabeth.shtml

http://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item124196.html https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/ger-harding-womens-suffrage-1.3425155

http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/sophia-duleep-singh

Alwyn Collinson, "How Black Friday changed the Suffragette struggle" Museum of London (14 November 2018) https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/black-friday

Hints to the Ladies on Jiu-Jitsu (1926) British Film Institute National Archive https://youtu.be/tpDmcxOSuas

Women Warriors:

Alexandra Kralick, "Skeletal Studies Show That Sex, Like Gender, Exists Along a Spectrum," Discover Magazine, available at https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/skeletal-studies-show-sex-like-gender-exists-along-a-spectrum

Holly Norton, "How the Viking Female Warrior Was Written Out of History," The Guardian, Available at https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/15/how-the-female-viking-warrior-was-written-out-of-history

Meilan Solly, "Researchers Reaffirm that Remains in Viking Warrior Tomb Belonged to a Woman," Smithsonian Magazine, available at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-reaffirm-famed-ancient-viking-warrior-was-biologically-female-180971541/

Valeri Guliaev, "Amazons in the Scythia: New Finds at the Middle Don, Southern Russia," World Archaeology 35, 1 (2003)

Adrienne Mayor, The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World. Princeton University Press, 2016

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