Susan Brownmiller

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Radical Feminism Still Challenges Us Today

Edit Common Dreams 31 Mar 2016

Peter Dreier. No celebration of Women’s History Month would be complete without acknowledging the extraordinary achievements of Charlotte Perkins Gilman ... She laid the groundwork for later feminists like Simon de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Germaine Greer, Kate Millett, Shulamith Firestone, Susan Brownmiller, Rita Mae Brown, bell hooks, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Kimberly Crenshaw ... ....

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Radical Feminism Still Challenges Us Today

Edit Huffington Post 30 Mar 2016

No celebration of Women's History Month would be complete without acknowledging the extraordinary achievements of Charlotte Perkins Gilman ... She laid the groundwork for later feminists like Simon de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Germaine Greer, Kate Millett, Shulamith Firestone, Susan Brownmiller, Rita Mae Brown, bell hooks, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Kimberly Crenshaw ... At Susan B ... Her book Women and Economics ... ....

A Year of Feminist Books

Edit About.com 22 Feb 2016

Simone de Beauvoir, 1955.  Getty Images / Hulton Archive ... Let's get started! ... May ... Men, Women and Rape by Susan Brownmiller ... Susan Brownmiller delivers a well-researched, thought-provoking account of inequality, lies, legal institutions and how women are affected ... When you have finished your year of feminist books, what do you read next? Perhaps the new year could begin with Susan Faludi's perceptive analysis of the Backlash....

Barbie: she’s 57 this year, but when will this toy truly grow up?

Edit The Observer 31 Jan 2016

A Barbie is sold every three seconds somewhere in the world. Or so the story goes. A fixture now in girls’ bedrooms for decades, the doll has also, almost since first coming on to the market, provoked criticism for its fanciful body shape ... petite, tall and curvy (plus the original version) with 24 hairstyles ... As feminist Susan Brownmiller wrote, femininity, personified by Barbie in all her preternatural guises, “always demands more” ... ....

Gloria Steinem interview: 'Activism is addictive'

Edit The Guardian 17 Oct 2015

The week before we met, Susan Brownmiller, an old comrade from Ms, made some intemperate remarks about rape in a New York magazine interview (“There are predators out there, and all women have to take special precautions ... “Susan Brownmiller is really smart and good at being negative ... Steinem once sent Brownmiller to cover a domestic violence case in which a man beat his wife and killed their baby....

Pass The Tissues: Playboy Just Lost Its Centerfolds

Edit The Daily Beast 13 Oct 2015

The magazine, famed for its explicitly photographed nude models, will feature them no more—superceded, ironically, by the online porn culture it helped inspire. Shop ▾. It’s hard to feel nostalgic for masturbation fodder, but it’s hard not to feel a bit wistful at Playboy’s announcement that it would no longer publish nude images ... Feminist Susan Brownmiller and Sally Kempton raked Hefner over the coals on the Dick Cavett Show ... ....

Feminism in 1975

Edit About.com 05 Oct 2015

The women's liberation movement changed many lives during the 1970s. What sort of events were happening in the middle of that decade? Take a look at the history of U.S. feminism in 1975.First Lady Betty Ford supported the Equal Rights Amendment ... in Washington, D.C ... Susan Brownmiller’s groundbreaking book Against Our Will ... ....

Susan McKay: Trailblazing activist has stooped to folly and must expect a harsh response

Edit The Irish Times 29 Sep 2015

‘Rape is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.” – Susan Brownmiller, 1975 ... I don’t know what happened to the understanding people had in the 1970s.” – Susan Brownmiller, 2015 ... Part of our training was to read and debate Brownmiller’s Against Our Will – Men,Women and Rape, which had been published in 1975....

Susan McKay: Brownmiller has stooped to folly and must expect a harsh response

Edit The Irish Times 28 Sep 2015

‘Rape is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.” – Susan Brownmiller, 1975 ... I don’t know what happened to the understanding people had in the 1970s.” – Susan Brownmiller, 2015 ... Part of our training was to read and debate Brownmiller’s Against Our Will – Men,Women and Rape, which had been published in 1975....

If feminist icons lose their way the movement continues without them

Edit The Guardian 22 Sep 2015

Last week, Susan Brownmiller, the author of the 1975 book Against Our Will ... So when Brownmiller said it’s “a little late” for a woman to say no to sex “after you’re both undressed”, critiqued domestic violence survivors for not leaving abusive partners, and women who “look like a hooker”, the comments were met with understandable disappointment and surprise. In addition to criticizing young feminists’ methods, Brownmiller claimed....

'The Seventies': Feminism makes waves

Edit CNN 22 Jul 2015

(CNN)Sex was everywhere in the 1970s. As a generation of women became liberated in their sexual identities, they wanted that liberation to extend beyond the bedroom. The sex freak-out of the 1970s. Women's equal rights advocates like Gloria Steinem, Susan Brownmiller and Kate Millett emerged and became the faces and voices for a generation ... Feminism goes mainstream ... Constitution a top priority ... EXPAND IMAGE ... JUST WATCHED ... Replay ... MUST WATCH ... ....

Cult heroes: Nellie Lutcher could be saucy to the core and radiate innocence

Edit The Guardian 21 Jul 2015

Nellie Lutcher’s career was killed by the birth of rock’n’roll, but her take on swing is irrepressible and irresistible ... Six decades later, pressing play on one of her hits feels like popping the cork on a bottle of sunshine ... “Please come down just as soon as you can / If you can’t I’ll have to call Sam – he’ll hurry on down.” The feminist writer Susan Brownmiller, who first came across Lutcher in 1955, was instantly besotted ... ....

Crisis and the Politics of Possibility

Edit CounterPunch 05 Jun 2015

Following in the tradition of his father and Bill Clinton before him, in 2003 George W ... The sympathetic frame put forward was of ‘speaking for the voiceless,’ many of whom apparently believed the American liberation myth themselves ... By the measures of their times, Pablo Picasso, the Fluxus Group, Ornette Coleman, Frida Kahlo, John Cage, Iggy Pop and Susan Brownmiller had social voices through what they did, not what they owned ...   ....