No steps behind : Beate Sirota Gordon's battle for women's rights in Japan / by Jeff Gottesfeld ; illustrated by Shiella Witanto.
Material type: TextPublisher: Berkeley, California : Creston Books, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781939547552
- 1939547555
- Beate Sirota Gordon's battle for women's rights in Japan
- Gordon, Beate -- Juvenile literature
- Women's rights -- Japan -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- Women political activists -- Japan -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Jews, Austrian -- Japan -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Women immigrants -- Japan -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Women heroes -- Japan -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Biography | Gordon, B. G685 | Available | 33111009626587 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Discover the unlikely story of Beate Sirota Gordon, a young woman who grew up in Japan and returned as a translator working for the American military after WWII. Fluent in Japanese language and culture, she was assigned to work with the delegation writing the new post-war constitution. Thanks to her bravery in speaking up for the women of Japan, the new constitution ended up including equal rights for all women.
Includes bibliographical references.
Ages: 8 to 12.
"Her parents moved her from Austria to Tokyo, Japan before she started school. They were all rendered stateless when Nazi Germany and Austria stripped Jews of their citizenship. She graduated high school fluent in Japanese plus four other languages and went to college in America at age 15. Cut off from her parents by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and America's entry into World War II, she went years not knowing if they were alive. She returned to post-war Japan as an interpreter, found her parents, and wrote the fateful words that make her a storied feminist hero in that nation even today. As Justice Sonia Sotomayor said about Beate Sirota Gordon, 'It is a rare life treat for a Supreme Court Justice to get to meet a framer of a Constitution. It is rarer indeed for that framer to have been a woman'"-- Provided by publisher.