Against our Will
by Susan Brownmiller
Susan Brownmiller is a major player in the feminist area. She has written extensively about the history of feminism. This one is a groundbreaking book. In the late 70s and 80s a spate of books came out about rape. The incidence of rape or reported rape increased in that period but I don’t think anyone knows why exactly that was so. Brownmiller was one of the first to say, ‘Hey, wait a minute, this is outrageous; we need to do something about this.’ Rape was not a big issue for earlier feminists such as Betty Friedan and Simone de Beauvoir.
