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	Amazon.com: In Our Time: Memoir of A Revolution: Susan Brownmiller: Books
		Susan Brownmiller was a Gucci-clad, 33-year-old writer grappling privately with the decidedly masculine preserve of feature journalism when she attended her first consciousness-raising session in 1968.
		Brownmiller's book would be an excellent addition to a women's history collection - one warning though, there are a ton of names of movement leaders peppered throughout the book and someone new to the history might be confused initially.
		Brownmiller is as involved and passionate about her cause (and prone to her trademark wiseacre remarks) today as she was then, and has things to say about many of her former compatriots that may cause embarassment.
	www.amazon.com /Our-Time-Memoir-Revolution/dp/0385314868 (1153 words)

	Susan Brownmiller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brownmiller argues that rape has been defined by men hitherto, rather than woman.
		Brownmiller also participated in civil rights activism, joining CORE during the sit-in movement and volunteering for Freedom Summer in 1964.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Susan_Brownmiller (268 words)

	DeCrow (021600) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Brownmiller writes that the lack of success of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in 1982 was a "huge repudiation and defeat for us all." The ERA had a June 30, 1982, deadline for ratification, and at that date only 35 of the needed 38 states had ratified it.
		Brownmiller is gratified that "the biggest barriers to equality have been toppled" but doesn't like it that the beneficiaries "sought to distance themselves from the rough-edged militants who had cleared the path." This rough-edged militant who tried to clear the path is not so sure about the distancing.
		I suspect that if Susan Brownmiller had been in on the conversation, she would have been as encouraged as I was.
	newtimes.rway.com /2000/021600/decrow.shtml (962 words)

	Feminista! v3n7 - In Our Time
		Susan Brownmiller's new book, "In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution," showcases the feminist "stars" and the lesser-known radical visionaries behind the second wave of the feminist movement.
		Brownmiller describes the weaknesses, disappointments, and differences of feminists as well as their drive, their prophetic vision, and their commitment to their ideals.
		Brownmiller did not mention that many feminist activists have married, borne children, and raised families on top of working on their careers.
	www.feminista.com /archives/v3n7/wilson.html (1312 words)

	Books-on-Law: Book Reviews
		Brownmiller: Yes, its logic. It's a lesson in logic. Now scientists, of course, talk of it in terms of hypotheses, not tautologies, but they come to the same conclusion: that a hypothesis, to stand up, must be airtight; there can't be alternative possibilities. So, we're all arriving at the same conclusion. And also,.
		Brownmiller: I felt that a canvass of thirty years was sufficient. That was one reason. Another reason is I really disagree with Faludi's theory in Backlash (1991), because I don't think it was the media that turned against feminism. I think the media reflected a popular turn-off in society against feminism.
		Brownmiller: I'd love it. I'd love it. Because I believe what Santayana said, that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. I want the new generation of feminists not to make some of the same mistakes in terms of organization and jealousy and competition that we made.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /lawbooks/intervw.htm (1612 words)

	Rape and The Racial Divide
		What Susan Brownmiller did, however, was to expose a broader moral context, looking at the issue of sexual coercion from the standpoint of simple ethics and human behavior.
		Susan Brownmiller devotes a large chapter to the issue of interracial rape "as a national obsession." She makes no excuse for rape in the least, probes its manifestations relentlessly, in fact devotes large space to current headlines about fl on white force in the here and now.
		A slaveholder's wife once declared (this is from Brownmiller, p 219): "that she was nothing more than the 'chief slave of the harem' on her husband's plantation.
	robtshepherd.tripod.com /brownmiller.html (1972 words)

	The New Mythology of Rape, Part One
		Brownmiller maintains that rape is the primary mechanism through which men, in general, perpetuate their dominance over women in general.
		Brownmiller's second myth is that men, in general, have created a mass psychology of rape.
		If Brownmiller wishes to maintain that there is a continuum of male oppression -- that extends from man's first recognition of his genitalia as weapon through to this moment -- she must, in honesty, credit Greek myths.
	www.zetetics.com /mac/rape.htm (3256 words)

	the f-word - In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The book looks at the women's liberation movement from the inside, focussing on the personalities, the conflicts, the debates, the excitement, fervour and passion that had such an effect on the society we live in.
		Susan Brownmiller is an excellent writer, and she manages to capture and explain the spirit of the age very well.
		She doesn't shirk away from the rifts and bitter arguments that split feminists ("We're lucky this is a women's movement," said Gloria Steinem to Brownmiller, "In other movements they shoot each other.") but records them honestly, and with humility even at her own mistakes.
	www.thefword.org.uk /reviews/2001/06/in_our_time_memoir_of_a_revolution (230 words)

	A Review of Susan Brownmiller's Seeing Vietnam -- ThingsAsian Article
		Susan Brownmiller's desire to get beyond the standard media images of Vietnam and to see "the country in peacetime, its problems and progress" fueled her 1992 trip to Vietnam and the resulting new book Seeing Vietnam: Encounters of the Road and Heart, published by Harper Collins.
		Brownmiller explores the cultural richness in Vietnam through having tea with Buddhist monks in Hue, foraying into a local nightclub, bargaining with local merchants, and joining free tai chi classes in Hanoi's parks.
		In the sixties, Brownmiller was an ABC television network news writer who helped put the Vietnam War on the nation's television screens every night.
	www.thingsasian.com /goto_article/article.595.html (303 words)

	Rad Geek People’s Daily 2004-03-03 – She Said, She Said: the misinterpretation of Susan Brownmiller on ...
		Susan Brownmiller, in her important book Against Our Wills, suggested that men may be genetically predisposed to rape, a notion that has been echoed by Andrea Dworkin.
		As for the bits of Brownmiller I’ve excerpted here: her throwaway comments modification of the human anatomy have to be taken in light of a bit of context.
		Brownmiller is neither saying that all men are rapists or that men who are not rapists are engaged in some kind of calculated conspiracy with those who are.
	radgeek.com /gt/2004/03/03/she_said (3049 words)

	Faludi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Susan Faludi was reading from her new book on the disappointed...
		Susan Faludi is author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women...
		Susan Faludi, author of the feminist bestseller Backlash, has done it again with an...
	katemillett.shadkate.com /faludi (921 words)

	Powell's Books - In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution by Susan Brownmiller
		Here as well are Brownmiller's reflections on the feminist utopian vision, and her dramatic accounts, rendered with honesty and humor, of the movement's painful internal schisms as it struggled to give voice to the aspirarations of all women.
		"Susan Brownmiller has succeeded in that rarest and most difficult task: She has written a book that not only must be read but also is readable.
		In this stirring memoir, Susan Brownmiller, feminist activist and author of the landmark work on rape, Against Our Will, draws upon her four decades on the front lines of the women's movement to chronicle the startling inequities, groundbreaking campaigns, and colorful cast of characters that ignited one of the most transformational movements in American history.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0385318316-0 (632 words)

	FIOAR Discussion - Looking Back
		I know for a fact that both Brownmiller and Harrison were pleased that these pieces were included in our volume; the former was actually pleased to hear that the piece was part of a larger work on Rand's work as interpreted from various feminist perspectives.
		To speak personally for a moment, Susan Brownmiller's comments were probably the first I ever read about Rand, and it was salutory to return to them some years later when both my thinking about Rand and my thinking about feminism had changed so much since I first read them.
		I find Brownmiller's account of the experience she had in "recovering" her youthful reading of The Fountainhead extremely interesting as a complementary experience -- she, too, is returning to a text read early on from a "new" perspective.
	www.nyu.edu /projects/sciabarra/fem/Femdis/femdlb.htm (594 words)

	Anecdote - Susan Brownmiller - Injured Pride? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Brownmiller, as she later recalled in her essay "On Goosing," imitated Peel by kicking her adversary "in the ass." The result?
		Brownmiller fell "on her ass" and sprained her ankle.
		Brownmiller, Susan (1935-) American feminist and author [noted for such works as Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape, Femininity, and In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution]
	www.anecdotage.com /index.php?aid=3879 (200 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Against Our Will: Men, Women & Rape, by Susan Brownmiller (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The manifest thesis of this book may be simply stated: it is that the basic sexual relation between men and women is rape.
		...Susan Brownmiller conflates the primal act of intercourse with an act of rape...
		...They were expressing their understanding of what radical feminism, and its highly publicized spokeswomen like Susan Brownmiller, truly stand for, and repudiating it...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V61I2P92-1.htm (629 words)

	Books-on-Law: Book Reviews
		If the book falters at all, it is in failing to recognize that a third wave of feminism has already begun. Brownmiller acknowledges the impact of the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings in 1991 and the U.S. Supreme Court's recognition of same-sex sexual harassment protection in Oncale v.
		Brownmiller ultimately concludes that "feminist theory [went] as far as it could go in the twentieth century." But she also identifies obstacles to equality that remain to be toppled in the 21
		Century: "inadequate day care, the Glass Ceiling, inflexible working conditions that [make] it difficult to balance work and family life." With her book and the legacy of the modern women's movement as inspiration, women just might re-mobilize to topple these and other remaining barriers to gender equality.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /lawbooks/revmar00.htm (1629 words)

	BROWNMILLER TRIP SHEDS LITTLE LIGHT ON VIETNAM
		For example, Brownmiller writes, in reference to Hanoi's Fine Arts Museum: `` `Fine art' is a hallowed Western European concept rooted in snobbery and defined at its most basic as art that is definitely not practical, useful, or applied decoratively to something that has a utilitarian function.
		Brownmiller makes assumptions about the status of soldiers missing in action, dismissing as wishful thinking that any might still be alive.
		Brownmiller's sometimes interesting bits of Vietnamese history are given no formal source attribution.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1994/vp940814/08120523.htm (355 words)

	Causes of Rape
		Brownmiller agrees, emphasizing that "social injustice is one of the root causes of the subculture of violence." (Against Our Will, Susan Brownmiller, p 196) What are men doing within that subculture?
		Brownmiller's statistical portrait of the common rapist compellingly demonstrates this.
		In 1973, the period from which she took her statistics and a time in American history when most young men were just beginning the long climb out of the defeat, disillusionment, and dispiritedness of the Vietnam conflict, the typical rapist was between the ages of 16 and 24.
	www.backlash.com /book/rape6.html (1818 words)

	:: The ACLU of Massachusetts ::
		Susan Brownmiller, a noted writer and activist, opens her book by declaring that she was not present at the creation of the women’s movement.
		This disclaimer is laudably modest but in fact she has been deeply involved in many of the most important struggles of the modern women’s rights movement.
		This is a vivid and compelling narrative, part history and part memoir, of such important events as the founding of the National Organization for Women (NOW), the early years of the abortion rights movement, and the feminist anti-pornography effort, of which Brownmiller was a leader.
	www.aclu-mass.org /bookclub/women.html (271 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Susan Brownmiller
		Susan Brownmiller was born in Brooklyn on Feb. 15, 1935.
		Starting with her classic, AGAINST OUR WILL, Susan Brownmiller has paved the way for women over the years with her journalism and feminism.
		Her most recent work, IN OUR TIME: Memoir of a Revolution, is more history than memoir, although Brownmiller does share her first feminist epiphany, which took her by surprise at the age of 33.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-brownmiller-susan.asp (2800 words)

	Susan Brownmiller
		This site offers a complete discussion of the many books and essays by Susan Brownmiller, placing them in their academic and historical context.
		This site explores the contributions that Susan Brownmiller has made to the Women’s Liberation Movement of the twentieth century and to feminism in general.
		Susan Brownmiller talks about controversial topics related feminist ideologies—in particular whether women should be identified as sex objects.
	wps.ablongman.com /long_diyanni_ge_2/0,9436,1512859-content,00.html (83 words)

	Women as property
		Susan Brownmiller argues that rape is "a crime of violence and power over women" rather than a sex crime: "It is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation, by which all men keep all women in a state of fear." (Against Our Will, Susan Brownmiller, p 5)
		They do try, however, to obscure the connection by assiduously asserting the former while vehemently denying the latter: It is in their best interests to sell the idea all men are potential rapists.
		Despite this, police statistics show between twelve and fourteen cases of wife battering are reported for every case of husband battering.
	www.backlash.com /book/rape1.html (1430 words)

	River Falls Public Library -January 2001 New Non-Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Feminist activist and author Susan Brownmiller sketches a history of the modern feminist movement rich in first-person recollections and interviews.
		With an emphasis on radical feminism, Susan covers the varying issues that inspired the movement as it evolved from the 1960s to the present time, including the conflicts between the Women’s Movement and the rest of the Left, separatism, lesbianism, abortion, rape, domestic violence, sexual harassment and pornography.
		A participant as well as observer, Susan also charts the course of her own involvement and the personal details form an informative and enjoyable narrative.
	www.rfcity.org /library/readers/Jan2001/Jan_nonfiction.html (452 words)

	Salon Mothers Who Think \| We believe you, Juanita (we think)
		Susan Faludi, Susan Brownmiller, Katie Roiphe, Gloria Allred and others respond to Juanita Broaddrick's explosive charges.
		Ireland also urged legislators to help in passing the Violence Against Women Act, even as she admitted that Clinton should probably no longer lead the charge.
		On the other hand, Susan Estrich, a USC law professor and rape victim, called for the nation to move on.
	www.salon.com /mwt/feature/1999/03/cov_03feature.html (1452 words)

	FIOAR - Contributor Biographies
		SUSAN LOVE BROWN is a political and psychological anthropologist who received her bachelor's degree from Regents College, State University of New York, in 1984.
		SUSAN BROWNMILLER is the author of many books and essays, including Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (Bantam Books, 1975), Femininity (Linden Press, 1984), Waverly Place (Grove Press, 1989), and Seeing Vietnam: Encounters of the Road and Heart (HarperCollins, 1994).
		MIMI REISEL GLADSTEIN, co-editor of Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand, is a Professor of English and Theatre Arts at the University of Texas at El Paso, where she is currently Associate Dean of Liberal Arts.
	www.nyu.edu /projects/sciabarra/fem/fembio.htm (1728 words)

	Random House Publishing Group
		Susan Brownmiller is the author of Against Our Will: Men, Women And Rape; Femininity; Waverly Place, a novel; Seeing Vietnam, and Shirley Chisholm, a biography for children.
		She has written for The New York Times, The Village Voice, Esquire, Vogue, Rolling Stone, The Nation, and many other publications.
		As powerful and timely now as when it was first published, AGAINST OUR WILL stands as a unique document of the history of politics, the sociology...
	randomhouse.com /rhpg/authors/results.pperl?authorid=3551&... (100 words)

	Gendercide Watch: Genocide in Bangladesh, 1971
		Indeed, despite (and in part because of) the overwhelming targeting of males for mass murder, it is for the systematic brutalization of women that the "Rape of Bangladesh" is best known to western observers.
		In her ground-breaking book, Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape, Susan Brownmiller likened the 1971 events in Bangladesh to the Japanese rapes in Nanjing and German rapes in Russia during World War II.
		How many died from this atrocious treatment, and how many more women were murdered as part of the generalized campaign of destruction and slaughter, can only be guessed at (see below).
	www.gendercide.org /case_bangladesh.html (2906 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Author Spotlight: Susan Brownmiller
		Susan Brownmiller is the author of Against Our Will: Men, Women And Rape; Femininity; Waverly Place, a novel; Seeing Vietnam, and Shirley Chisholm, a biography for children.
		There once was a time when the concept of equal pay for equal work did not exist, when women of all ages were "girls," when abortion was a back-alley procedure, when there was no such thing as a rape crisis center or a shelter for battered women, when "sexual harassment" had...
		As powerful and timely now as when it was first published, AGAINST OUR WILL stands as a unique document of the history of politics, the sociology...
	www.randomhouse.ca /author/results.pperl?authorid=3551 (182 words)

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