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Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape

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"The most comrpehensive study of rape ever offered to the public...It forces readers to take a fresh look at their own attitudes toward this devastating crime."
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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 of rape and the inherent and ingrained inequality of men and...more

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Published May 11th 1993 by Ballantine Books (first published 1975)

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Aug 29, 2012 Chris rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: feminist, crime-related

I’ve been asked why I wasn’t a fan of Torchwood. You’d think I would be. Who doesn’t like Captain Jack? I turned on the first episode and that ruined it for me. In the premiere, one of the Torchwood crew smuggles home an alien something or other, like a roofie. He goes to a bar, a woman rejects him, he uses the alien thing, and then she is really, willing, and able. They leave the bar, and outside the woman’s boyfriend stops them. Our “hero” uses the magic roofie on the boyfriend, who is now rea...more

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Feb 10, 2008 Jon Trott rated it 5 of 5 stars

Taking into account the book was published in 1975, Susan Brownmiller's Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape remains one of those books any serious feminist or pro-feminist has to read. It is a book I wish every man would read. Brownmiller's journalistic background and systematic historic overview of rape's place in male-dominant cultures make her work earth-shaking. The majority of men do not understand feminism even today; this book's intensity and clarity makes it far easier to understand.

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Mar 10, 2013 Colleen Clark rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: women

First rate, as timely today as when it was first published in 1975. It's comprehensive, covering in its 404 pp many many aspects of rape. It's hard to think of what Brownmiller did not cover. The 12 chapters are:
1. The Mass Psychology of Rape: An Introduction;
2. In the Beginning Was the Law - more or less from Hammurabi through English Law, which is the basis for our law
3. War: WW I; WW II; Bangladesh; Vietnam (Now we might think of the Congo, Bosnia, and rapes committed by our troops in Iraq...more

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Apr 19, 2012 Heather rated it 4 of 5 stars

It is easy to see why this is a classic. It was originally written in the late 1960s/early 1970s and was, at the time, a groundbreaking book on the subject of rape. The author clearly was a feminist during the height of the 2nd wave of the women's rights movement which I think does color her book but does not detract from its worth.

The author focuses a good chunk of the book on rape during war, revolution, and other such violent events. However, she also focuses on rape in other cases. Her book...more

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Feb 07, 2010 Steven Peterson rated it 4 of 5 stars

The heart of this book is a statement early on (Page 15): "From prehistoric times to the present, I believe, rape has played a critical function. It is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.

This book traces the thesis from ancient civilization to the present. Early (Pages 18-19), she refers to the Code of Hammurabi as well as Scripture. In turn, the book unfolds as follows: rape and war; rape and revolution; Indians and s...more

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Sep 29, 2012 Zechy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: history, nonfiction, politics

Fantastic book. Not just a polemic against the evils of the patriarchy, an objective and scholarly look at a subject that it is almost impossible to take too seriously. Personally, my biggest complaint is with some of the speculative history in the first chapter, but that is quickly passed, and probably just part and parcel of the books original milieu, I believe they were common beliefs at that time. What may be considered this books greatest weakness, it's being out-of-date, may be it's most i...more

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Jan 04, 2009 Jessica rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction, gender, teaching

I read this book years ago. It is a hard read because of the subject matter, although a large part of me truly believes that victims should read it. It really is helpful.

Brownmiller is a strong, clear writer.

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Mar 19, 2013 Regina rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I found a used copy of the original printing at a library book sale and I'm so glad I did. Even though the edition I read was published in 1975, it is just as relevant today.

The book traces the history of "rape" from it's original conception as a property rights violation of one man against another all the way to the more modern concept as an assault. It's a hard read in many places and harder still for anyone who has had to face a rape situation, but it is and incredibly important read. Still.

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May 25, 2010 Robert rated it 4 of 5 stars

While this work has been expanded upon and explored further in later feminist works, the voice in this book's intensity and clarity make it a good introduction to feminist critique. This is less useful for someone familiar with modern feminism.

Brownmiller never conceptualizes "interracial rape as a burden of white women" as another reviewer has claimed. In fact the institutionalized rape that came with slavery gets a chapter all its own (whereas interracial rape does not).

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Feb 02, 2011 Melissa Baggett rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: feminism-women-s-studies, favorites

Reading Against our Will is a little like watching a John Wayne movie. When one sees the familiar swagger of the all-American hero, the oddly familiar, maybe even hackneyed, ring to it makes one ask, "Haven't we seen this before?" So, too, does Brownmiller's book feel like ideas that have been repeated frequently, especially to readers who have tastes similar to mine. But then, when reading Brownmiller's work (or watching Wayne's movies), I have to remember--this stuff is not hackneyed. I like t...more Reading Against our Will is a little like watching a John Wayne movie. When one sees the familiar swagger of the all-American hero, the oddly familiar, maybe even hackneyed, ring to it makes one ask, "Haven't we seen this before?" So, too, does Brownmiller's book feel like ideas that have been repeated frequently, especially to readers who have tastes similar to mine. But then, when reading Brownmiller's work (or watching Wayne's movies), I have to remember--this stuff is not hackneyed. I like to stay away from words like "groundbreaking," but Brownmiller's 1975 work, well, broke ground. As John Wayne became the protoype of the noble hero, Against Our Will (1975) set the standard for much feminist thinking about rape.
Our society is still very much steeped in rape culture. The fact that we use the word "penetration" to describe even VOLUNTARY sex acts indicates an attitude that sex is a violation in and of itself. (Brownmiller herself and later feminists have taken issue to the phraseology, as I do.) But when, where and how did this rape culture start? Brownmiller digs down into the roots of rape and discusses it as the physical and psychological crime we now consider it to be. When reading Against Our Will, it is important to remember that Brownmiller, along with a handful of her contemporaries, caused us to begin thinking of rape as enlightened members of our culture have come to think of it now: as an act of violence on the bodily integrity of a full human being.
Brownmiller suggests that the concept of the heterosexual couple with the male as protector of the female originated because of a female fear of rape. "Those of her own sex whom she might call to her aid were more often than not smaller and weaker than her male attackers....But among those creatures who were her predators, some might serve as her chosen protectors. Perhaps it was thus that the risky bargain was struck. Female fear of an open season of rape, and not a natural inclination toward monogamy, motherhood or love, was probably the single causative factor in the original subjugation of woman by man, the most important key to her historic dependence, her domestication by protective mating" (16). Because of this assymtetrical need for protection, woman came to be seen as less than man. If man were going to protect woman in a way that woman could not protect man or herself, woman would become man's property. And rape, in the eyes of the law, became a property crime. "Rape entered the law through the back door, as it were, as a property crime of man against man. Woman, of course, was viewed as the property" (18). The first major consideration in the legal view of rape was the rape of virgins, as to rape a virgin was to reduce her value in the marriage market and thus to cheat her father. Because fathers were not the only men who "suffered" property damage due to rape, the law was expanded to protect the interests of husbands as well, as their wives, though not virgin, were their property. Ancient Babylonian law and ancient Hebrew law differed in their punishment of rapists, but both had a curious habit in certain (and most) circumstances of punishing the victim as severely as the rapist. (Ancient Hebrew tradition also gave us the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife. According to the story, Joseph, a respected slave in Egyptian leader Potiphar's house, refused the sexual advances of the Egyptian's wife, who then claimed to her husband that Joseph tried to rape her. To this day, some still consider accusations of rape as the revenge of a spurned female.) Brownmiller also discusses English common law, upon which most US common law is based. English common law originally followed strictures similar to that of ancient Hebrew law. Men who ravished virgins had the option of marrying that virgin to save himself from punishment. (The law viewed the raped woman as "consenting" to the union, though usually her option was either marrying her rapist or lifelong ignominy and lack of financial support, as her father would likely not want his sullied property returned.) The law also reflected class biases of the day: this obligatory marriage did legally apply to noblemen who raped common women, but for such a nobleman to be charged, let alone convicted and forced to marry a commoner, was almost unheard of. Still, establishing some sort of penalty for a rapist that did not automatically apply to the victim as well helped to acknowledge rape as a public crime rather than a privately-disputed property violation.
Brownmiller also embarks on an in-depth discussion of rape in war. Rape in war is inevitable, and Brownmiller takes a strong stance on the phenomenon. "War provides men with the perfect psychologic backdrop to give vent to their contempt for women. The very maleness of the military--the brute power of weaponry exclusive to their hands, the spiritual bonding of men at arms, the manly discipline of orders given and orders obeyed, the simple logic of the hierarchical command--confirms for men what they long suspect, that women are peripheral, irrelevant to the world that counts, passive spectators to the action in the center ring" (32). Perhaps it is humankind's dark nature that makes us value taking life (as is done en masse in war and still mostly by men) over giving life (in birth, the exclusive domain of the female), but undervaluing the female is what causes rape in the first place and especially what aids rapists in times of war. Brownmiller discusses several conflicts, including both world wars, Vietnam, and the "rape of Bangladesh" in the early 1970s. In each conflict, rape was a key feature of soldiers' behavior, and Brownmiller dismisses the idea that a sexual hunger was the impetus for rape. In most wars, prostitution coexists with the military in a seemingly mutually-beneficial relationship. Sexual hunger can be sated easily enough, but rape has its own appeal. Not only is it free, but it give the rapist a sense of power that simply paying for sex or gaining free sex through a consensual union does not. When one comes to see the enemy as less than human (as one must in order to kill the enemy), sometimes a simple kill seems too merciful. Torture in the form of rape, prior to or instead of the kill, reinforces that sense of superiority in the "conquering" rapist and, ideally, reinforces the idea of subhuman-ness in the victim.
Other highlights from the book include Brownmiller's discussion of date rapes (a term she coined) and how police view claimants of rape by an acquaintance as "unfounded." But institutions of culture and power serve not only to enable rapists to commit the crime but enable law enforcement to dismiss the crime outright. "Date rapes and rapes by men who have had prior relationships with their victims also contain elements of coercive authority that militates against decisive resistance. Here the 'authority' takes the form of expected behavior. In a dating situation an aggressor may press his advantage to the point where pleasantness quickly turns to unpleasantness and more than the woman bargained for, yet social propriety and the strictures of conventional female behavior that dictate politeness and femininity demand that the female gracefully endure, or wriggle away if she can, but a direct confrontation falls outside of the behavioral norms. These are the cases about which the police are wont to say, 'She changed her mind afterward'" (257). So, date rapists have culture on their sides which gives them carte blanche to proceed with unwelcome sexual behavior in the name of healthy male lusts. Date rape victims have culture doubly against them in that they are neither taught to fight back nor condoned for doing so, yet are blamed for the rape because their behavior "led him on." If the word "no" does not convey the message clearly enough, the palm-heel strike on the nose might, but neither are viable options to the female having the male date's advantage pressed. Allow me to interject at this point that I can see how our attitudes toward date rape have altered somewhat (there are still some holdouts in less civilized areas of the South). We now make more educated guesses than Brownmiller could about the number and nature of rapes that go unreported, and most women know that statistically, the stranger behind the bush is the least of one's worries. (I.e., the date "pressing his advantage" is a bigger culprit than the dark man hiding in the park or breaking into a stranger's house.) But even though we know who the culprit is more likely to be, we are not really any more prepared for the other half of the equation: fighting off the date, friend of a friend, party guest, family member or total stranger, and censuring his or her actions legally and culturally.
Attendant to this argument is Brownmiller's discussion of the myths of rape, and she spells them out succinctly:
1. ALL WOMEN WANT TO BE RAPED.
2. NO WOMAN CAN BE RAPED AGAINST HER WILL.
3. SHE WAS ASKING FOR IT.
4. IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE RAPED, YOU MIGHT AS WELL RELAX AND ENJOY IT.
(These are listed on p. 311.) Brownmiller expands upon each of these. For the first, Brownmiller states, "Because rape is an act that men do in the name of their masculinity, it is in their interest to believe that women also want rape done, in the name of femininity" (312). The first myth leads directly to the second: "The concept seems to imply at first hearing that if the will of a woman is strong, or if she is sufficiently agile, she can escape unscathed...but 'No woman can be raped against her will' is not intended to encourage women to do battle against an aggressor--rather, it slyly implies that there is no such thing as forcible rape" (312). The third myth, the popular short skirt defense, conveniently shifts the blame for the rape away from the rapist and onto the victim and of the three is the one that seems still to be with us as much in 2011 as it was in 1975. The final one adds insult to injury by reinforcing myth number one (you want it) and myth number two (you would resist if you really didn't) and throwing in a dose of inevitability and female powerlessness.
Brownmiller finishes her discussion of rape by discussing how rape can be curtailed in the future. She promotes the idea of making rape solely a crime against one's bodily integrity, as an aggravated assault is, and bringing punishments for rape in line with those for that crime. Brownmiller further argues that spousal rape should be viewed as a crime (which it now is), with the reasoning, "Consent is better arrived at by husband and wife afresh each time, for if women are to be what we believe we are--equal partners--then intercourse must be construed as an act of mutual desire and not as a wifely 'duty,' enforced by the permissible threat of bodily harm or economic sanctions" (381). AMEN!!
Brownmiller concludes the book in a way that makes me want to kiss her hand: she contests the shopworn advice given to women to protect themselves from rape. The old standbys of not being out alone, keeping car doors locked, wearing conservative clothing, and always being accompanied by a male serve to enable rapists, as the number of potential victims may decrease negligibly but the number of rapists remains the same. They also further victimize those who are victims of rape, because they open up numerous opportunities to blame the victim: Why were you out alone? What did you expect with that short skirt? Why didn't you and your girlfriends take a man with you to the bar? None of these conditions brings on a rape; the only condition that causes a rape is being in the presence of a rapist.
The book has a few dated parts, but those parts are encouraging; the ones that still hold true after 35 years are often disheartening. A classic of second-wave feminist thought and required reading for anyone who considers him- or herself a feminist, I recommend it wholeheartedly.(less)

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Jun 11, 2011 Loraine rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: all-time-favorites

It changed my life when I read it many years ago. Recently I was cleaning out old books to give away and i almost gave this one away. Was it still relevant? Then I met a beautiful young woman from India, a militant feminist poet in her twenties, who named this as one of her most treasured books. It struck me that half-way around the world,and across at least a generation, a young woman in a feminist-unfriendly country, became who she is because her father saved this, and other books, for his dau...more

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Oct 02, 2011 Susan Clark-cook rated it 5 of 5 stars

A very well and deeply researched book that will leave you knowing more about rape than you ever thought possible. She starts out with early ideas of and history of rape in general and then takes you through many permeations that leave you deeply disturbed but well educated. I had to put this book down numerous times because reading it became too hard, and I was either too saddened or so angry that I just couldn't continue. Not a fun or easy read, but one that is very important, and I feel that...more

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Nov 27, 2011 Sara rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: psych-womens-studies

The subject matter is so heavy, the look at it so unflinching, and so disturbing that I could only take 20 or so pages at a time. It also is not a quick read (she is rather verbose), and it starts out slowly. About 1/3 the way in the book takes off.

This book was written two years before I was born, and yet so so much of it is still completely applicable to today (unfortunately). This was really the first serious in depth study about rape, and how it's been used a weapon against those not in pow...more

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Mar 18, 2011 Aurochz rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites, feminism

Considering all the negative things I had heard about this book. I expected it to be a radical, semi-racist bit of feminist rhetoric. It wasn't any of those things. It did a great job outlining the history of rape and the social context of rape as a crime in the seventies. It did a good job in both regards. So good it made me mildly depressed. Before I go into anything more specific, I would like to talk about a few of the things attributed to this book that are not in it and a few of my own qua...more Considering all the negative things I had heard about this book. I expected it to be a radical, semi-racist bit of feminist rhetoric. It wasn't any of those things. It did a great job outlining the history of rape and the social context of rape as a crime in the seventies. It did a good job in both regards. So good it made me mildly depressed. Before I go into anything more specific, I would like to talk about a few of the things attributed to this book that are not in it and a few of my own qualms, before I get back into the good.

This book was written near the start of the second wave so it actually makes very few statements in regards to patriarchy and things of that nature. The one major time in the book being that their is a political aspect to rape, which is often taken out of context. She was trying to say that rape at the time and throughout history has been used as a political weapon and to one extent or another it has been used to keep women down. She didn't say it was always that way, which leads me to another criticism often levied at this book, but not actually in it. This book does not state that the want for pleasure is never a motive in rape, in fact in one chapter she states the motives for a man wanting sex are obvious and shes implying pleasure. Despite people like Steven Pinker attributing that idea here, it wasn't there to be found. It is obvious to most people in the feminist movement and outside of it that date rapes and molestations are most often done for pleasure. However, particularly violent assaults done by strangers or people you know and those done in ritualistic settings are often better explained by the motive of control. Both victims and rapists make that the clear motive in after the fact interviews.

This book is not racist and despite what some leftist that want a badge for being egalitarian say, she does a good job of outlining the plight of black women here. The problem was as she stated, the crime statistics didn't list crimes done to minorities and when they did, they only focused on black men. The criticism often put on white feminists that they don't focus enough on minorities is stupid for two reasons. One, if you're white your experiences are going to be from a white perspective and subsequently you're going to write from it! OHHHHhhh magic, who'd of thunk! Secondly this criticism is never put on the shoulders of other groups of people trying to win "rights" and legal standing. Did people ask blacks why they didn't rally for Mexicans? Do they ask gays why they don't support the plight of small religious groups? No, because they realize they're working on a specific issue and they cant tackle everything at once. Now the analogies aren't perfect, but the onus is on black women and black men to make their voices heard in feminist circles and they have. This book and feminism in general bent over backwards trying to please minorities, but to no avail of course.

My own problem with this book stemmed from one small thing. I think that pornography and our growing obsession with is should be looked at and people should be geared away from our flagrant acceptance of it. That being said I wouldn't support banning it and despite what Susan says it did break a lot of censorship barriers in the early and the middle of the last century. Now it might give people pause that censorship was first lifted off of porn and then to things like literary classics and political writings. Unfortunately that is the way the cookie crumbled. Violent pornography has at least been toned down or phased out since the time this was written. We no longer have things like rape/detective comics for instance. So at least they have gotten better to some extent.

I think this book was again good in what it aimed for with the history and awareness of the crime. I would say that it is dated, but as long as you keep aware of the time it was written, that wont effect the experience much. I think she could of gone more into the detrimental effects of rape on people, at the time it could of done a lot towards making it a more serious issue. Even today, people doubt the severity of sexual assaults. This books historical significance doesn't need to be stated. She coined the term "date rape" and helped bring awareness to an issue that had been unfortunately ignored up to this point.

I would highly recommend this book. Some parts of it were hard to read from the graphic nature of it, but it is a necessary read. (less)

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Apr 01, 2011 Elizabeth rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: everyone

Shelves: gender-studies, history, classics

As referred to in Ariel Levy's Female Chauvinist Pigs.

First, a public service announcement: There is no evidence that cooperating with a rapist makes you any safer . You may think, "Oh, if I go quietly, then he will appreciate that and be less likely to kill or injure me", but you would be wrong. There is no quid pro quo . If he was already willing to commit murder (and actually, very, very few rapes end in murder, so odds are overwhelmingly that he's not), he's not going to be any less so becau...more

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Apr 09, 2010 AJ rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: do-not-own, nonfiction, 2010

This book has all of the problems of second wave feminism. It's a very white, middle to upper class look at rape, seeing it as a male-female inequality without a big look into bigger institutional issues. (And by bigger I don't mean the criminal justice system. I mean capitalism, classism, racism, etc.)

I particularly dislike Brownmiller's take on interracial rape as a burden of white women, which stood out as a starkly racist stance to take on the issue. I also dislike Brownmiller's thoughts th...more

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Jul 17, 2010 Camidon rated it 1 of 5 stars

I can't come up with a better review than Steven Pinker in The Blank Slate: the modern denial of human nature:
"I believe that the rape-is-not-about-sex doctrine will go down in history as an example of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds. It is preposterous on the face of it, does not deserve its sanctity, is contradicted by a mass of evidence, and is getting in the way of the only morally relevant goal surrounding rape, the effort to stamp it out."

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Jan 06, 2009 Ellen rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: maybe-some-other-time-did-not-fini

You see, as someone who thinks a lot about creating a world without sexual violence, I expected to devour this book. But I started reading it in September (of course), and while I was highlighting stuff while reading, I didn't want to pick it back up when I put it down, and it was also far too depressing. It was interesting in parts, ja, but I expect this will be one of the books I'll keep on hand as a reference source when writing, but not reading from cover to cover. (Also, back when it was wr...more

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Mar 14, 2010 Jagati Bagchi rated it 4 of 5 stars

My job brings me closer to issues of violence. Yet this book made me realise that even now we have only been on the tip of an iceberg. Rape as a weapon deters women, from childhood till old age.Yet more often than not it is treated as a punishment to the men, rather than being a crime committed on women. However, we still need to see it as a crime against gender, so that we can include the third sex. Also the perspective of children should be given more attention.

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Jun 29, 2010 Dee-Ann rated it 4 of 5 stars

I read this a while back and I am sure it had a different cover, but it was a fascinating in a provoking way about how morals and attitudes have changed and not changed about rape, women, men, war and more. many times when reading this I had to stop becuase I felt sao angry about the injustice.

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Jan 07, 2013 Sara Lewkowicz rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction

A really really important book if you want to understand the development of modern concepts of rape, though pretty extreme in much of its rhetoric (I do not, for one, believe ALL heterosexual sex is rape. That is absurd and denies women their agency.) That said though, worth a read.

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Oct 17, 2007 Anna rated it 4 of 5 stars

I think every woman should read this book. It's really the first book to address rape in a thorough, historical way (it was written in the 1970s but is still very relevant). It's interesting the way she frames the issue. Something along the lines of "In the beginning there was man and there was woman. Man raped woman, and so began the oppression and subjugation of women by men.... etc."

My only caveat is the long chapter on rape in war. It's important from a historical standpoint, but it drags an...more

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Oct 10, 2008 Stephy rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: everyone

Shelves: womens-studies, sexually-abused-human-beings

Susan Brownmiller made great waves with this incredible volume on a topic nobody much cared to mention in her day. Actually, several years earlier, "Against Rape!" by Kathleen Thompson and Andrea Medea broached the subject, and was well know in the women's movement. Susan Brownmiller managed to find a really big publishing house with the willingness to pour a lot of money into advertising her book. Naturally enough, it is considered the first, but there was,let us not forget, an earlier work, wh...more

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Nov 14, 2010 Shirley rated it 4 of 5 stars

Read it as research for a college paper on rape, soon after it was published. One of the first significant books on the subject. It was very informative and eye-opening.

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Jan 03, 2009 Gina rated it 4 of 5 stars

I appreciated how an emotional issue was treated academically and respectfully. There is a wealth of information, and the author comes up with some interesting answers.

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Dec 19, 2011 Angela rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction, rape, feminism, sociology, gender-studies, politics, history, womens, psychology, reviewed

I couldn't finish. There are too many anti-male ideas that it's impossible to filter it out and get to the actual research. This book is overly feminist in my opinion.

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Nov 09, 2012 Jenica rated it 4 of 5 stars

Consequences of rape in : biblical time, spoils of war, child molestation, marital rape, date rape and the list can continue...

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Oct 22, 2012 Heather Rowlett rated it 5 of 5 stars

Very comprehensive history of rape up to the point that this text was written. Very direct and informational.

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Mar 12, 2011 Maryann573 rated it 5 of 5 stars

A classic eye opener for my generation, I consider it required reading for anyone who claims to be a feminist.

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Jan 22, 2013 Jeffery rated it 5 of 5 stars

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