What is Susan Brownmiller?
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2019}} '''Susan Brownmiller''' (born February 15, 1935) is an American radical [[feminism|feminist]], journalist and activist. She is best known for her pioneering work on the politics of [[rape]] in ''Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape'' (1975). Brownmiller says that rape has been defined by men rather than women until now. Men use rape as a means of continuing male dominance by keeping all women in a state of fear. All men benefit from this. Brownmiller also participated in [[civil rights]] activism. She joined [[Congress of Racial Equality|CORE]] during the [[sit-in]] movement and volunteered for [[Freedom Summer]] in 1964. She first became involved in the [[Women's Liberation|Women's Liberation Movement]] in [[New York City]] in 1968. There she joined a [[consciousness-raising]] group in the newly formed [[New York Radical Women]] [[organization]]. Brownmiller went on to co-ordinate a [http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/1199/brownmiller/excerpt.html sit-in against Ladies' Home Journal] in 1970, began work on ''Against Our Will'' after a [[New York Radical Feminists]] speak-out on rape in 1971, and co-founded [[Women Against Pornography]] in 1979. She continues to write and speak on feminist issues, including a recent [[memoir]] and history of [[Second-wave feminism|Second Wave]] radical feminism, [http://www.susanbrownmiller.com/html/in_our_time.html ''In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070719200440/http://www.susanbrownmiller.com/html/in_our_time.html |date=2007-07-19 }} (1999). [[2005|As of 2005]], she is an Adjunct Professor of Women's & Gender Studies at [[Pace University]] in [[New York City]],[http://appserv.pace.edu/execute/page.cfm?doc_id=9130] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070707085120/http://appserv.pace.edu/execute/page.cfm?doc_id=9130 |date=2007-07-07 }} == References == * [http://www.susanbrownmiller.com/html/bio.html Susan Brownmiller.com: An Informal Bio] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/