Brownmiller, Susan

  • Rape: Susan Brownmiller, Diana Russell and Martha Shelley (Part 1 only)

    Susan Brownmiller, author of Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape, and Diana Russell, author of The Politics of Rape: The Victim’s Perspective, are interviewed by Martha Shelley, member of the Feminist Press Collective, author of Crossing the DMV, and long-standing member of the Inez Garcia Defense Group. In this portion of the program, Brownmiller…

  • Women Against Pornography Conference (1979): Welcome and Speakout

    These four reels contain actuality from the Women Against Pornography Conference, which took place in New York City, September 15 & 16, 1979.  Tape one includes bits from Saturday’s “Welcoming Remarks” including Dolores Alexander and Lynn Campbell, founders of Women Against Pornography (WAP, the audio is poor and choppy), and a “Speakout”, coordinated by Lynne…

  • A lacy, lacy, lacy card for Valentines Day: lesbians and femininity

    A valentine from us to you with love. With comments from Susan Brownmiller, author of “Femininity,” interviewed by Judy Pasternak and comments by Constance “Melody Austin” Rodgers and “Helen Carruthers”(Names may be fictional?). Also this may be Part 2 of 2.

  • Against our will / Susan Brownmiller.

    A talk by Susan Brownmiller, journalist and author of “Against Our Will,” on the historical and political implications of rape. Rape is sanctioned by foundations of modern law, and has been a feature of warfare from ancient times through Vietnam, and Brownmiller argues that rape is not an aberration, but a logical outcome of attitudes…

  • Susan Brownmiller on writing and promoting.

    An interview with Susan Brownmiller, who spent four years writing her book Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape. She felt her mission in the feminist movement, after hearing women speaking openly about their rapes, was to compile the history of rape in a sound and rational analysis. She feels “the threat of rape is…

  • Fair sex, fair game : women say no to the sexual safari / produced by Helene Rosenbluth.

    Highlights from the First National Conference on Feminist Perspectives on Pornography, convened by Women Against Violence and Pornography in the Media, held in San Francisco in November 1978. The first part of this program features excerpts from panels What Is Pornography?, Porn and the Law, Effects of Pornography, and Pornography and the First Amendment. The…

  • Susan Brownmiller interviewed by Barbara Cady

    Barbara Cady talks with Susan Brownmiller, author of “Against our will: men, women, and rape,” published by Simon & Schuster. Brownmiller discusses her book and the issues of sexual harassment with which women must cope.