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Original Title:	Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
ISBN:	0449908208 (ISBN13: 9780449908204)
Edition Language:	English

Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape Paperback | Pages: 472 pages

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Title	:	Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
Author	:	Susan Brownmiller
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 472 pages
Published	:	May 11th 1993 by Ballantine Books (first published 1975)
Categories	:	Feminism. Nonfiction. Sociology. Gender. Gender Studies. History. Politics

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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 women under the law. In lucid, persuasive prose, Brownmiller has created a definitive, devastating work of lasting social importance. Chosen by THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW as One of the Outstanding Books of the Year

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Terrible; I couldn't even finish this book.

Hey remember when feminism was all about white women, demonised non white men, sex positivity didn't exist and every cherry picked statistic was emotionally charged to induce fear among women?What a trip, that nazi comparison at the end was the cherry on top.

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). Actually, she doesn't

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



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

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