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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

Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape

Susan Brownmiller

Paperback | Pages: 472 pages

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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.

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

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Difficult to read more than 20-30 pages at a time, but it's really just staggering. It makes me want to yell at every history teacher I've ever had for not telling me about rape throughout the history of the world. This book makes it clear that rape is not a personal problem but a sociological tool. Read it and weep (literally).

This book is an example of the kind of feminism that sometimes writes 'Woman' with a capital. Most of the book consists of transcriptions of rapes - hardly easy reading material - intersected with extreme feminist theories. Her argumentation, most of the time, is not clearly stated and farfetched. However, if the laws in America in her time are what she says they are - not to mention the attitude of the police towards rape and rape victims - I understand her extremism. A lot has changed, for the

You see, as someone who thinks a lot about creating a world without sexual violence, I expected to devour this book. But I started reading it in September (of course), and while I was highlighting stuff while reading, I didn't want to pick it back up when I put it down, and it was also far too depressing. It was interesting in parts, ja, but I expect this will be one of the books I'll keep on hand as a reference source when writing, but not reading from cover to cover. (Also, back when it was

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

I can't come up with a better review than Steven Pinker in The Blank Slate: the modern denial of human nature:"I believe that the rape-is-not-about-sex doctrine will go down in history as an example of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds. It is preposterous on the face of it, does not deserve its sanctity, is contradicted by a mass of evidence, and is getting in the way of the only morally relevant goal surrounding rape, the effort to stamp it out."

Before reading this book, I was already familiar with the famous quote from Against Our Will. Its one of those that pops up in social justice paradise (or purgatory, depending on the day of the week), Tumblr, on a regular basis: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.Stirring stuff, indeed but, out of context, it seems a little

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