Women's Jūjutsu and Judo in the Early Twentieth-Century: The Cases of Phoebe Roberts, Edith Garrud, and Sarah Mayer
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Callan, Mike; Heffernan, Conor; Spenn, Amanda. (2018). Women's Jūjutsu and Judo in the Early Twentieth-Century: The Cases of Phoebe Roberts, Edith Garrud, and Sarah Mayer
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- AuthorCallan, Mike; Heffernan, Conor; Spenn, Amanda
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Peer-reviewed academic article (The International Journal of the History of Sport, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 530-553) on the first British women's pioneers of jujutsu/judo. Case study 1 covers Phoebe Roberts (1887-1937): born Phoebe Parry in Monmouthshire, adopted by the London manufacturing chemist Roberts family; joined Uyenishi's Golden Square School in 1903 aged 16, promoted to instructor within a year; performed alongside her teachers Tani and Uyenishi from December 1904, including Caxton Hall, the Aldershot military demonstrations, the June 1905 Japan Society garden party attended by Prince Arisugawa, and venues up to the Japanese School of Ju-jitsu in Oxford Street. Married Juzo/Juso Hirano in March 1907, toured Spain in 1908, and followed Hirano to Barcelona and Portugal; as Phoebe Laughton-Parry she married Don Carlos de Castro Henriques in 1916 and died in Porto in October 1937. Case study 2 covers Edith Garrud (1872-1971), whose suffragette-era jujutsu is treated here alongside the Bodyguard she trained for the WSPU. Case study 3 covers Sarah Mayer.