Sometimes
you come across a news story that is important to women’s history
and you ask yourself, “Why didn’t I know this before?”
Such
is the case with this report from the New York Times about Beate
Gordon, the “unsung heroine of Japanese women’s rights” who has
only just died.
It
makes me wonder how many other women there are - some of them still
living - who have been involved in ground-breaking advancement in the
rights of women in all corners of the world and who have either been
forgotten, deliberately ignored or sidelined.
I
am sorry, Beate, that I knew nothing of your admirable life and achievements until now, although
I am glad others
are keeping your legacy going.
Beate
wrote her biography in 1999. It seems to be out of print but
hopefully it will now be reissued.
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| Poster from the 2004 Japanese film |
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