Susan Brownmiller, legendary feminist author and pioneer leader of the second wave of the feminist movement, died Saturday May 24, 2025. Susan was best known as the author of the groundbreaking book, Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, the book that put rape on the map as a feminist issue. It was my honor to have her in my life for one brief but significant, for me, moment. Here’s what happened: I Give in to Groupie Tendencies I was sitting at my desk at the publishing house where I was working by day when the voice over the intercom announced that I had a call on line 3. I was at the time at a low point in my life. The entire inventory of my Voices from the Underground […]
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