Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape.
BROWNMILLER, Susan.
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape.
"My purpose in this book has been to give rape its history. Now we must deny it a future": First Edition of Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape; Lengthily Signed by Susan Brownmiller
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975.
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Item Number: 147307
First edition of this bestselling feminist classic that revolutionized the way we think about rape, as a historical phenomenon and as an urgent crisis, named by the New York Public Library’s 100 Books of the Century. Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily signed by the author on the title page, “My purpose in this book has been to give rape its history. Now we must deny it a future. Susan Brownmiller May 10, 2016.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Frances Effenbein.
As powerful and timely now as when it was first published, Against Our Will stands as a unique document of the history, politics, and sociology of rape and the inherent and ingrained inequality of men and women under the law. Fact by fact, Susan Brownmiller pulls back the centuries of damaging lies and misrepresentations to reveal how rape has been accepted in all societies and how it continues to profoundly affect women’s lives today. A keen and prescient analyst, a detailed historian, Susan Brownmiller discusses the consequences of rape in biblical times, rape as an accepted spoil of war, as well as child molestation, marital rape, and date rape (a term that she coined). In lucid, persuasive prose, Brownmiller uses her experience as a journalist to create a definitive, devastating work of lasting social importance. “A classic . . . No one who reads it will come away untouched" (The Village Voice). “Chilling and monumental . . . Deserves a place next to those rare books which force us to change the way we feel about what we know" (The New York Times Book Review).
