Susan Brownmiller

[close] "Although it's only some men who rape," says Susan Brownmiller, "the fear of rape makes all women unable to fully claim public space. That's why it's political."


Feminist activist and author Susan Brownmiller is best known for her groundbreaking book Against Our Will: Men Women, and Rape. Considered the definitive text on rape and violence against women, Against Our Will was named one of the hundred most important books of the twentieth century by the New York Public Library.


Here Brownmiller discusses the importance of opening up the conversation about rape and abuse as an appropriate — and imperative — issue.