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In the peaceful Edo period, weapons' value as battlefield weapons became diminished and their value for martial arts and self-defense rose. The naginata was accepted as a status symbol and self-defense weapon for women of nobility, resulting in the image that "the Naginata is the main weapon used by women". [8]
Onna-musha (女武者) is a term referring to female warriors in pre-modern Japan, [1] [2] who were members of the bushi class. They were trained in the use of weapons to protect their household, family, and honour in times of war; [3] [4] many of them fought in battle alongside samurai men. [5] [6]
Interest in women's self-defense paralleled subsequent waves of the women's rights movement especially with the rise of Second-wave feminism in the 1960s and 1970s and Third-wave feminism in the 1990s. [8] Today's Empowerment Self-Defense (ESD) courses focus on teaching verbal and psychological as well as physical self-defense strategies.
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Women carried them in their kimono either in a pocket-like space (futokoro) or in the sleeve pouch (tamoto) [2] for self-defense and for ritual suicide by slashing the veins in the left side of the neck. [3] [4] When a samurai woman married, she was expected to carry a kaiken with her when she moved in with her husband. [5]
In 1989, for example, the Johannesburg Civil Defence Program provided training for 800 civil defense volunteers, about one-half of whom were women. These classes included such subjects as weapons training for self-defense, antiriot procedures, traffic and crowd control, first aid, and fire-fighting.
Cat eyes are self-defense weapons similar to brass knuckles. TSA checkpoints in New York are now detecting a spike in these. Here's why.
The Women's Protection Units [a] (YPJ) or Women's Defense Units is an all-female militia involved in the Syrian civil war. [9] The YPJ is part of the Syrian Democratic Forces , the armed forces of Rojava , and is closely affiliated with the male-led YPG . [ 10 ]