Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape

by Susan Brownmiller

Book Overview

The bestselling feminist classic that revolutionized the way we think about rape, as a historical phenomenon and as an urgent crisis --essential reading in the era of #MeToo. " A major work of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671220624
• ISBN13: 9780671220624
• Release Date: October 1975
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The enormity of such crimes still is overwhelming

For an excellent read on the topic of rape and war, please read "Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape" by Susan Brownmiller. The enormity of such crimes is well documented by Brownmiller. When I read the book in the late 1970s, my understanding of the sexual abuse consequences of war left me overwhelmed by the agony of millions of women through the ages. Upon re-reading it years later, the impact of the book still left me devastated.

Groundbreaker still relevant

It may seem hard be believe, but when this book came out in the mid-1970s a lot of people (including me) thought rape was primarily a crime of lust rather than a crime of power. This book changed the entire nature of the discussion. If rape is a crime of power, then it has very little to do with female seduction or with healthy male appetites. The book is still very relevant, in part because the old myths are still very strong in many parts of the world, helping to hold women as virtual prisoners in their own home countries.This is not a textbook for social scientists; it is a primer on the real nature of rape.

As relevant today as ever.

This book is as ground-breaking today as it was in 1975. Brownmiller systematically identifies and combats the many rape myths which have long kept both women and men in chains and in doing so, illustrates just exactly how much work anti-rape activists have ahead. By approaching the subject of rape in political terms, she challenges the reader to examine their own thoughts and experiences in a new light. This book is a daring and unapologetic appeal to people everywhere to rethink everything we ever thought we knew about sexual violence.