Against our will

Author: Susan Brownmiller
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: This book is based on the perspective of women, using a large amount of reliable primary sources, combined with various cases, to conduct psychological, sociological, criminological, legal, and historical analyses of the widespread social problem of men raping women. The content includes an analysis of rape-related clauses in law, the issue of rape in war, inter-racial rape (mainly between whites and blacks), prison rape, police rape, and other issues. Upon its publication, the book was translated into multiple languages and was listed as a "classic on rape." According to statistics from the world's largest website, Amazon, 478 important works have cited materials and data from this book. Newsweek described it as "the most detailed study of the issue of rape, forcing readers to examine this destructive crime from a completely new perspective." The New York Times Book Review listed the book as one of the year's most outstanding books, calling it "a brutal history, an immortal work—a book worth reading," and noting that it is "based on unique political history archives, the sociology of rape, and the inherent, deeply rooted legal inequalities between men and women. Concise and accessible, Brownmiller wrote a decisive, overwhelming, shocking work of lasting social significance."