The godmother of the anti-rape movement

March 19, 2015

Forty years ago, Susan Brownmiller's landmark book 'Against Our Will' took rape out of the shadows

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The godmother of the anti-rape movement

In the early 1970s, people didn't talk about sexual violence and it was still legal for husbands to rape their wives. "I was hoping to change everyone's mind about rape, the same way my mind had been changed," said Susan Brownmiller. When her landmark book "Against Our Will" came out in 1975, it was an instant bestseller and fueled a radical makeover of laws around the country. The New York Public Library later honored "Against Our Will" as one of the 100 most significant books of the 20th century. Forty years since her book was published, Brownmiller looks back at all the women's liberation movement accomplished and the work that's left unfinished.


 

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