Brownmiller, feminist author and a network television newswriter during the Vietnam era, recounts her journeys in Vietnam in the grand tradition of Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, combining reportage, memoir, and adventure in a portrait of a people and a country we have fought but never known. Her descriptions of her encounters with Buddhist monks, Hanoi nightlife, and Saigon markets are interspersed with political insights on the country's history and current situation. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Seeing Vietnam: Encounters of the Road and Heart

Travel

BROWNMILLER, Susan

Asia

Harpercollins

Brownmiller, feminist author and a network television newswriter during the Vietnam era, recounts her journeys in Vietnam in the grand tradition of Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, combining reportage, memoir, and adventure in a portrait of a people and a country we have fought but never known. Her descriptions of her encounters with Buddhist monks, Hanoi nightlife, and Saigon markets are interspersed with political insights on the country's history and current situation. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Perennial

Examines the nature of femininity and analyzes society's view of a woman's ideal body, appearance, and behavior

Femininity

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Penguin Putnam~trade

A first novel by the author of "Against our Will" and "Femininity". It is a fictional account of wife-battering and child-killing based on the infamous and widely publicized Steinberg/Nussbaum case which swept America during 1989.

Waverly Place

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

GROVE PRESS

A biography of the New York politician who was the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress.

Shirley Chisholm: A Biography

Teen & Young Adult

Doubleday and Company

In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution

There once was a time when the concept of equal pay for equal work did not exist, when women of all ages were "girls," when abortion was a back-alley procedure, when there was no such thing as a rape crisis center or a shelter for battered women, when "sexual harassment" had not yet been named and defined. "If conditions are right," Susan Brownmiller says in this stunning memoir, "if the anger of enough people has reached the boiling point, the exploding passion can ignite a societal transformation." In Our Time tells the story of that transformation, as only Brownmiller can. A leading feminist activist and the author of Against Our Will, the book that changed the nation's perception of rape, she now brings the Women's Liberation movement and its passionate history vividly to life. Here is the colorful cast of characters on whose shoulders we stand--the feminist icons Betty Friedan, Kate Millett, Germaine Greer, and Gloria Steinem, and the lesser known women whose contributions to change were equally profound. And here are the landmark events of the era: the consciousness-raising groups that sprung up in people's living rooms, the mimeographed position papers that first articulated the new thinking, the abortion and rape speak-outs, the daring sit-ins, the underground newspaper collectives, and the inventive lawsuits that all played a role in the most wide-reaching revolution of the twentieth century. Here as well are Brownmiller's reflections on the feminist utopian vision, and her dramatic accounts, rendered with honesty and humor, of the movement's painful internal schisms as it struggled to give voice to the aspirarations of all women. Finally, Brownmiller addresses that most relevant question: What is the legacy of feminism today?

History

The Dial Press

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Surveys the history of rape in war, riot, and revolution and the origins of American rape laws, examines interracial, homosexual, and child rape, and profiles the police-blotter rapist and representative victims

'AGAINST OUR WILL: MEN, WOMEN AND RAPE'

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

"Illuminating and informative....Essential reading." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Writing with great passion, warmth, and wit on a subject that's never been explored in these terms before, Susan Brownmiller draws on the many manifestations of femininity through the ages, and demonstrates in beautiful and telling detail the many powerful nuances of that one word. "A positive joy to read!" Nora Ephron CHICAGO TRIBUNE BOOK WORLD

Ballantine Books

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 history.”—The Village Voice • One of the New York Public Library’s 100 Books of the Century 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. Praise for Against Our Will “The most comprehensive study of rape ever offered to the public . . . It forces readers to take a fresh look at their own attitudes toward this devastating crime.”—Newsweek “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 “A landmark work, one of the most significant books to emerge in this decade.”—Houston Chronicle “A definitive text, startling, compelling, and a landmark.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch “An overwhelming indictment. We need it, it is a hideous revelation and it should be required reading.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Chilling, monumental, exhaustive, detailed, absorbing and original. . . . Brownmiller’s greatest contribution is establishing the continuity between rape and other facets of American culture.”—Commonweal

Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape

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Seeing Vietnam: Encounters of the Road and Heart

Seeing Vietnam: Encounters of the Road and Heart

Femininity

Waverly Place

Shirley Chisholm: A Biography

In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution

In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution

'AGAINST OUR WILL: MEN, WOMEN AND RAPE'

Femininity

Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape