Bibliograph

No steps behind, Beate Sirota Gordon's battle for women's rights in Japan, by Jeff Gottesfeld ; illustrated by Shiella Witanto

Type

Label

No steps behind, Beate Sirota Gordon's battle for women's rights in Japan, by Jeff Gottesfeld ; illustrated by Shiella Witanto

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 40)

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

resource.interestAgeLevel

8-12, Brodart

resource.interestGradeLevel

3-7, Brodart

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

No steps behind

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1096231285

Responsibility statement

by Jeff Gottesfeld ; illustrated by Shiella Witanto

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, LG, 4.9, .5, 511729.

Sub title

Beate Sirota Gordon's battle for women's rights in Japan

Summary

"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

Target audience

pre adolescent

Classification

Contributor