Susan Brownmiller Dies, Pioneer Feminist in a complaint of rape culture | Society
Susan Brownmiller, the best feminist Contributed to changing the perception of violations, He died at the age of 90 at a hospital in New York last Saturday. Brownsmiller became famous after publishing his book in 1975 Against our will, An agreement on the violation He stressed the victims and consent. In favor of a journalist, war activist and civil rights, part of the feminist circle, which includes journalist and author Gloria Stenim, author and Professor Kate Millet and psychologist Betty Friedon.
Born on February 15, 1935 in New York, a department -warehouse dependent and a young man as a young man wanted to be an actress, but only in two secondary structures and worked as Archivara and Waitress. He decided to participate in the civil rights movement. He joined the racial equality congress in 1960 and four years later he was part of the so -called Summer de La Libertad, and he went to Mississippi to help the blacksmiths to register blacks according to the election census. In the 60s, he worked as a journalist The village voice, NBC and ABC television chains and weekly NewsweekIn addition to cooperating with other media.
He joined the women’s release movement in New York and participated in the second feminist wave, which solved domestic violence, miscarriage, salary equality and sexual liberation. In 1971, he held a New York Feminist radical meeting on rape, and then the weekend seminar on the subject. He found that the story of women was completely opposed to the general stories of the time, and they spoke about quiet consent and false allegations. His resolution was that “the violation is intentional authority, domination and humiliation, the dominance and shame of men without morality, and many victims are afraid that their aggressors will be killed,” he said in the forefront of his book’s re -ISS publication.
Brownmiller decided to make a document in his work It is called rape culture. He analyzed the policy of roots, prevalence and rape on women in war and in prisons, spouses and minors. He condemned the glory of violation in the popular culture, which was not an act of violence, not lust, and the history of violations.
In that preface written in 2013, until the work of 1975, people’s attitude towards rape and sexual harassment of minors They are completely molded by men: In psychoanalysis theories, in police research and courts, in popular novels and images, television interviews, jokes and jokes.
“Women did not dare to speak publicly about the crime against their physical integrity, which often led to disbelief and this was a very shame. The rape was a frightening thing to mention women.” Then he said.
She was particularly proud of a chapter on the war on documenting massive violations in Vietnam and Bangladesh. Another chapter on the brutal murder of Emmett Til was surprised by the controversy. In him, he condemned The frightening death of a young African American’s sex in Mississippi in 1955 A white crowd was also blamed on the incident that led to his death: Caroline Bryant, Roy Bryant’s wife, whistling at the grocery store.
After publishing his writings, centers that help victims of violations across the United States have been opened, Probative Terms in the courts have been revised to reduce obstacles in prosecution of rape and laws, and the laws have been developed to classify a crime.
After the book was published, Brownmiller was appointed as one of the magazine People of the Year Time. In 1995, the New York Public Library was selected Against our will AS One of the most important books of the twentieth century.
Brownmiller criticizes the comments made in the interview with the magazine in 2015 New York, When Brownmiller says, women are not drinking a way to avoid attacking, it is to blame the victims.
In the late 1970s, Brownmiller helped find images of the New York Section of Women Against Pornstars, including other women, including Brownmiller Gloria Stenim and Poet Adrian Rich. The organizers admitted that obscene women had worse and abused women, But they disagree how to answer. Brownmiller wrote an effective article, Let’s keep pornographic images in the room again, He rejected the claims that pornography was protected by freedom of expression embodied in the first amendment. However, he believes that he is the best way to fight through education and protests.
In the 1980s, Brownsmiller missed from activation and focused on her role as a writer at New York Pace University and teaching. Stands in his works Femininity (Femininity), Published in 1984, In this he analyzed the ways to adjust to the rules of performance and behavior. He also published a novel, Waverly space, In 1989, Based on the media inquiry of Joel Steinberg’s lawyer who committed involuntary minister in 1987 for the death of his six -year -old daughter Lisa, who was illegally adopted. Brownsmiller also published a book about Vietnam and in 1999, in the name of an autobiography During our period: Memoir of a Revolution (During our time: memory of the revolution), He focused on the boom of the feminist movement.
