SUSAN BROWNMILLER

'Susan Brownmiller' (b. February 15, 1935) is a radical feminist, journalist, and activist. She is best known for her pioneering work on the politics of rape in her 1975 book '' Brownmiller argues that rape had been hitherto defined by men rather than women; and that men use, and all men benefit from the use of, rape as a means of perpetuating male dominance by keeping all women in a state of fear. Brownmiller also participated in civil rights activism, joining CORE during the sit-in movement and volunteering for Freedom Summer in 1964. She first became involved in the Women's Liberation Movement in New York City in 1968, by joining a consciousness-raising group in the newly-formed New York Radical Women organization. Brownmiller went on to co-ordinate a sit-in against Ladies' Home Journal in 1970, began work on ''Against Our Will'' after a New York Radical Feminists speak-out on rape in 1971, and co-founded Women Against Pornography in 1979. She continues to write and speak on feminist issues, including a recent memoir and history of Second Wave radical feminism, ''In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution'' (1999).
As of 2005, she is an Adjunct Professor of Women's & Gender Studies at Pace University in New York City,[1]

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Books

References

External links

Books

★ In Our Time : Memoir of a revolution (Dial Press, 1999)

★ Seeing Vietnam : Encounters of the road and heart (Harper Collins, 1994)

★ Waverly Place (Grove Press, 1989)

★ Femininity (Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, 1984)

★ Against Our Will : Men, women, and rape (Simon and Schuster, 1975/Fawcett Columbine 1993)

★ Shirley Chisholm: A biography (Doubleday, 1970)

References

★ Susan Brownmiller.com: An Informal Bio

★ In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution (ISBN 0-449-90820-8)

External links

★ Susan Brownmiller.com

★ Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution from the Jewish Women's Archive

★ 1989 audio interview with Susan Brownmiller by Don Swaim