Rouse's Presentation at the California State Historical Society. /rebates/2f97814798072912fOwn-Hero-Origins-Women25E225802599s-Self-Defense-147980729X2fplp&.

Adler, author of First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt: Homicide in Chicago, 1875-1920. Rouse's book, 'Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women's Self Defense Movement.' ĭr. Wendy Rouse insightfully reconstructs the strategies that proponents of womens self-defense employed to counter assertions that self-reliant women were masculine and deviant. Rouse's article 'Jiujitsuing Uncle Sam: The Unmanly Art of Jiujitsu.' ĭr. Self-Defense in the Era of Suffrage and the New Woman, in Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Womens Self-Defense Movement. She's a professor of history at San Jose State University and the author of a book and many articles on these subjects.Ĭheck out some of the materials we reference in the conversation, including Dr. In this era, women across the countrymostly white and urban-dwellingtook up boxing and jiu-jitsu, with the specific purpose of warding off male attackers.

Wendy Rouse is a historian who has studied the origin of the women's self defense movement, as well as early jiu-jitsu in America - including how President Theodore Roosevelt played a role in changing perceptions of this new-to-Americans art as an 'unmanly' art. Rouse is Associate Professor of History at San Jose State University and the author of Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Womens Self-Defence. InHer Own Hero, historian and martial artist Wendy Rouse digs deeper, locating the movements birth in the 1910s and 20s. /rebates/2f97814798285312fOwn-Hero-Origins-Women25E225802599s-Self-Defense-147982853X2fplp&.

Her Own Hero by Wendy L. Rouse