THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Susan Brownmiller
February 15, 1935 – May 24, 2025
“Rape Is a Crime Not of Lust, but Power.” – Susan Brownmiller, 1975
Journalist. Author. Activist. Congress of Racial Equality. New York Radical Women. Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press. Co-founder Women Against Pornography.
Interviewed by Noreen Connell, October 2019
Photo 1. Susan Brownmiller, with her book Against Our Will – Men, Women and Rape, 1975. Photo 2. Leading a “Women Against Pornography” tour of Times Square, New York, 1979. [Photo by Marilyn K. Yee, The New York Times]. Photo 3. First Speakout on Rape. Photo 4. Time Magazine‘s The American Women. In 1975, Susan Brownmiller, Kathleen Byerly, Alison Cheek, Jill Conway, Betty Ford, Ella Grasso, Carla Hills, Barbara Jordan, Billie Jean King, Carol Sutton, Susie Sharp and Addie Wyatt, women known as leaders in their respective fields – ranging from tennis, politics, law, education and activism – were chosen as Women of the Year. [Source: Time.com]
More About Susan:
- Obituary, The New York Times
- Veteran Feminists of America Events
- Celebrating Kate Millett, Seventh Regiment Armory, NYC November 1998
- Susan’s remarks from the 30th Anniversary of August 26, 1970 Strike for Equality Seventh Regiment Armory, NYC October 2000
- Salute to Feminist Writers, Barnard College, NYC April 2002
- “A Love Fest For Kate Millett.” Judson Memorial Church NYC June 2012
- Feminist Reunion 2017, We Won’t Go Back, Judson Memorial Church, NYC June 2017
- Jewish Women’s Archive
- On how the Village Voice made Susan a Writer
- Interview with The Cut
- She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry
- America Tonight – Susan Brownmiller confronts Hugh Hefner
- Sheryl McCarthy interviews Susan
- Rape as a Feminist Issue – PBS
- NYC Woman
- Interview in the Guardian
- The Studs Turkel Radio Archive
- Papers of Susan Brownmiller
- Susan on Click the Ongoing Feminist Revolution
- Cited in Barbara Love’s Book – Feminists Who Changed America – pages 61-62