Susan Brownmiller, a pioneering feminist author best known for her groundbreaking book "Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape," has passed away at 90. Brownmiller was influential in the second wave feminism movement, discussing topics such as rape, domestic violence, and reproductive rights. Her 1975 book documented the prevalence and social implications of rape, shifting conversations on the subject. A journalist and activist, she began her feminist journey in the 1960s, joining notable figures like Gloria Steinem. Her work had lasting impacts on feminist discourse and understanding of sexual violence.
Man's structural capacity to rape and woman's corresponding structural vulnerability are as basic to the physiology of both our sexes as the primal act of sex itself.
In her 1999 memoir In Our Time, Brownmiller likened the writing of Against Our Will to shooting an arrow into a bulls-eye in very slow motion.
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