Susan Brownmiller

Susan Brownmiller is an American feminist author, journalist, and activist best known for her groundbreaking 1975 work "Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape." A pioneering voice in the women's liberation movement, she co-founded New York Radical Feminists and has spent decades challenging cultural and legal attitudes toward sexual violence. Her seminal book transformed public discourse on rape, reframing it as an act of power and political oppression rather than a crime of passion. Brownmiller is also the author of "Femininity," "Waverly Place," and "In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution," cementing her legacy as a defining figure in feminist literature.