Susan Brownmiller: Feminist Pioneer
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The Still Vital—and Still Complicated—Legacy of Susan Brownmiller
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Susan Brownmiller , the feminist pioneer, died this week at the age of 90 .
The Village Voice writer took down Playboy founder Hugh Hefner with a perfect mixture of chutzpah and disdain.
Her groundbreaking 1975 book Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape led to her groundbreaking, controversial 1975 book.
Women’s liberation seeped into every area of modern life in 1970 .
Activists staged a sit-in at the Ladies’ Home Journal , a bastion of the counter-revolution since 1891 .
Their most audacious goal was to not just occupy the offices for a day , but take over an entire issue of the magazine.
Time magazine honored Brownmiller as one of its twelve Women of the Year in 1975 .
Her book Against Our Will was critiqued by scholars like bell hooks and Angela Davis for its blindspots regarding race.
An unabashed and imperfect feminist heroine, she continued to stir up controversy late in life.
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