Susan Browniller, who has changed the prospects of rape, dies at 90

Susan Brownmiller, the feminist author, journalist and activist, whose book “Against our will: men, women and rape” contributed to define the modern view of rape, to expose it as an act of passion and to reject it as a crime of power and violence, died on Saturday. She was 90.

Alix Shulman, a long -time girlfriend, confirmed Ms. Brownmiller's death in a hospital in New York, which said he had come after a long illness.

“Against our will”, published in 1975, was translated into a dozen languages ​​and classified by the New York public library as one of the 100 most important books of the 20th century.

Among other things, it offered the first comprehensive rape story over the centuries, starting with the old Babylon, and examined its use as a military tactic of the war to further submit the lost side.

The publication of the book together with real-time reports on mass rape in the war in Bangladesch-Castle was a flood of events that had switched to the attitude of society to rape.

Ascendent Women's Movement already opened the public's eyes about sexual violence. Anti-rape groups had to form in the early 1970s. Pioneering works such as “Our Body, ourselves” (1971) qualified women to take control of their bodies and their sexuality. When “against our will” arrived, the country seemed ready to deal with its effects.