Susan Brownmiller, the author of the sights of a book about sexual assault, dies of 90 star-news.press/wp

New York – Susan Brownmiller, a prominent feminist and the author of the 1960s and 70s whose “against our will” was a landmark and intensively discussed the best-selling about sexual assault, he died. She was 90 years old.

Brownmiller, who was ill, died on Saturday in the New York hospital, according to Emily Jane Goodman, a retired State Court in New York, and practicing a lawyer who serves as the Brownmiller’s will.

Journalist, anti-war activists and civil rights before joining the Feminist Movement “Second Wave”, Brownmiller was among many women who were radified in the 60s and part of smaller rounds that included Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan and Kate Millett.

While activists in the early 20th century focused on voting, the feminism of the second wave transformed talks on sex, marital reproductive rights, harassment in the workplace and domestic violence. Brownmiller, as much as anyone opened the discussion of rape. “Against our will: Men, women and rape,” said in 1975. and broadly read and surrender to decades after, documented roots, prevalence and rape policy – in the prison, against children and spouses. The shine of rape in popular culture was noted, it claimed that rape was an act of violence, and not lust and gusted rape on the independent foundations of human history.

“Man’s structural capacity for rape and woman’s structural vulnerability as a basic physiology of both of our gender as the original act of sex itself,” she wrote.

In his memoir in 1999. “In our time,” Brownmiller wrote “against our will” to “shoot the arrow into the bulls in a very slow movement.” Brownmiller started the book in the early 1970s after hearing stories from friends who made her blurry “with the building.” It was selected as the main choice of the club’s book-month and is thought that Newsworthy will be enough for BrownMiller to be interviewed on the show “Today” Barbara Walters. 1976. The magazine put his picture on the cover, along with Billie Jean King, Betty Ford and nine others as “Women Years”.

Brownmiller’s book inspired survivors to say their stories, women to organize rape centers and helped lead to the passage of marriage rape laws. It is also received with fear, confusion and anger. Brownmiller remembered a journalist journalist who yelled at her, “you have no right to disturb my mind like this!”

Brownmiller was also guilty that rape was a claim that she helped all men and strongly criticized for the chapter called “Racing issue”, in which the murder of 1955 was revised. In Mississippi of the black teenager Emmett Do. Brownmiller condemned his grummy death in the hands of a white mob, but he blamed the alleged incident who led to his death: whistling in the Bryantescu woman, Carolyn Bryant.

The chapter reflected tensions between feminists and civil rights leaders, and activists Angela Davis Writing that attitudes are Brownmiller “lived in racist ideas”. In 2017, the New Yorker editor David Remnick would call that she wrote about the murder “morally forgetting”. The time magazine in 2015 was questioned. Years of passages to, she replied that she had stopped for “every word”.

Steinem would criticize Brownmiller for comments that he made in 2015. year, when Brownmiller said that one way for women to be attacked, suggesting that they were guilty to be guilt.

Brownmiller’s other books included “femininity”, “see Vietnam” and the novel “Wall Law”, based on the Joel Steinberg lawyer, sentenced in 1987. for the death of his 6-year-old daughter, Lisa. In recent years, Brownmiller has taught at the University of Pace.

“She was an active feminist, she didn’t just agree with the popular issue of the day,” Goodman said, whose friendship with Brownmiller is longing for a decade.

She recalled outstanding gatherings, including poker nights, in BrownMiller’s long-term Greenwich Rural Apartment, who was the subject of her book 2017, “My City Highrise.”

Another longtime close friend, 92-year-old Alix Cathes Shulman, a colleague writer and feminist, lived in walking distance.

“We were women’s liberation comrades,” she said.

Brownmiller was born in New York in 1935. years, and would proud notice that her birthday, 15. February was the same as Susan B. Anthony. Her father was a sales officer, her mother secretary and both were dedicated to Franklin Roosevelt so well and so well known the current events that brownmiller “also became very intense in these things.” She was a Cornell scholarship student and had a short “very wrong ambition” to be Broadway Star, works as a file and waitress clerk while hoping for the roles that had never come true.

The movement for civil rights changed her life.

She joined the Congress of Racial Equality in 1960. And four years later, she was among the volunteers of the “Freedom of the summer” who went to Mississippi to help registration of the Black to vote. During the 1960s, she also wrote for the village voice and for ABC television and was a researcher in Newsweek.

In the late 1970s, Brownmiller helped finding in New York “Women against Pornography”, with other members, including Steinem and Adrienne rich. The organizers agreed that porn degraded and abused women, but differed from the answer. Brownmiller wrote influential essay “, return porn in the closet”, “the disputed arguments that pornography is protected by the first amendment. But it opposed the anti-porn leaders of Catherine Mackinnon’s Push for legislation, believing that pornography is best faced with education and protests.

In the 1980s, Browmiller came out of activism and noted a despair over “slow penetration, symbolic defeats, and small divisions” that were also causes and symptoms of movement. But she still remembered earlier years as a rarely precious chapter.

“When such a date occurs when vision is clear, and the nursing is powerful, the mountains are moved, and the human landscape is changing forever,” Brownmiller wrote. “Of course it is wildly unrealistic to speak in one voice for half of the human race, but that’s what feminism is always trying to do and must do, and that’s what women’s liberation did, in our time.”

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The associated print writer of Sophia Tareen contributed to this report from Chicago.