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Susan Brownmiller (born 15 February 1935) is an American feminist journalist, author, and activist best known for her 1975 book ''Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape''.〔http://www.susanbrownmiller.com/susanbrownmiller/html/against_our_will.html〕 Brownmiller argues that rape had been previously defined by men rather than women, and that men use, and all men benefit from the use of rape as a means of perpetuating male dominance by keeping all women in a state of fear. In 1995, the New York Public Library selected ''Against Our Will'' as one of 100 most important books of the twentieth century.〔(New York Public Library Books of the Century )〕 Brownmiller also participated in civil rights activism, joining CORE and SNCC during the sit-in movement and volunteering for Freedom Summer in 1964, wherein she worked on voter registration in Meridian, Mississippi. Returning to New York, she began writing for ''The Village Voice'' and became a network TV newswriter at the American Broadcasting Company, a job she held until 1968. She first became involved in the Women's Liberation Movement in New York City in 1968, by joining a consciousness-raising group in the newly formed New York Radical Women organization. Brownmiller went on to coordinate a sit-in against ''Ladies' Home Journal'' in 1970, began work on ''Against Our Will'' after a New York Radical Feminists speak-out on rape in 1971, and co-founded Women Against Pornography in 1979. She continues to write and speak on feminist issues, including a recent memoir and history of Second Wave radical feminism. ''In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution'' (1999). Brownmiller won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship〔(Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship )〕 in 1973 to research and write about the crime of rape. ==Biography== Brownmiller was born in Brooklyn to Mae and Samuel Warhaftig, a lower-middle-class Jewish couple. Her father was a salesman in the Garment Center and later a vendor in Macy's department store, and her mother was a secretary in the Empire State Building.〔〔 As a child she was sent to the East Midwood Jewish Center for two afternoons a week to learn Hebrew and Jewish history. She would later comment, "It all got sort of mishmashed in my brain except for one thread: a helluva lot of people over the centuries seemed to want to harm the Jewish people. ... I can argue that my chosen path - to fight against physical harm, specifically the terror of violence against women - had its origins in what I had learned in Hebrew School about the pogroms and The Holocaust."〔Susan Brownmiller, (statement ) recorded by the Jewish Women's Archive, "Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution" (accessed 4 June 2010).〕 She had "a stormy adolescence",〔Susan Brownmiller, ''Against Our Will'' (1975).〕 attending Cornell University for two years (1952 to 1954) on scholarships, but not graduating. She later studied acting in New York City. While training as an actor, she took the stage name Brownmiller, legally changing her name in 1961.〔〔Susan Brownmiller, ("An Informal Bio" ), posted on the website susanbrownmiller.com (accessed 4 June 2010).〕 She appeared in two off-Broadway productions.〔Ariel Levy, ''Female Chauvinist Pigs'' (2005), chapter 2.〕 According to herself, "Jan Goodman and I were in the second batch of volunteers for Mississippi Freedom Summer....When no one else at the Memphis orientation session volunteered for Meridian, Jan and I accepted the assignment. Between us, we had a good ten years of organizing experience, hers in Democratic primaries and presidential campaigns, mine in CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, and both of us together in voter registration drives in East Harlem. The night we arrived in Meridian, a field secretary called a meeting, asking to see the new volunteers. Proudly we raised our hands. 'Shit!' he exploded. 'I asked for volunteers and they sent me white women.'"〔http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/brownmiller-time.html〕 Brownmiller's path into journalism began with an editorial position at a "confession magazine". She went on to work as an assistant to the managing editor at ''Coronet'' (1959–1960), as an editor of the ''Albany Report'', a weekly review of the New York State legislature (1961–1962), and as a national affairs researcher at ''Newsweek'' (1963–1964). In the mid-1960s, Brownmiller continued her career in journalism with positions as a reporter for NBC-TV in Philadelphia (1965), staff writer for the ''Village Voice'' (1965), and as network newswriter for ABC-TV in New York City (1966–1968). Beginning in 1968, she worked as a freelance writer; her book reviews, essays, and articles appeared regularly in publications including ''The New York Times'', ''Newsday'', ''The New York Daily News'', ''Vogue'', and ''The Nation''.〔 In 1968, she signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.〔“Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” January 30, 1968 ''New York Post''〕 She describes herself as "a single woman", even though "I was always a great believer in romance and partnership."〔Author bio, bookreporter.com (accessed 3 June 2010).〕 "I would like to be in close association with a man whose work I respect," she told an interviewer, attributing her unmarried status to the fact that she was "not willing to compromise."〔Mary Cantwell, "The American Woman", ''Mademoiselle'', June 1976.〕 Her papers have been archived at Harvard, in the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.〔(Susan Brownmiller Papers ), Harvard Library catalog listing (accessed 3 June 2010).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Susan Brownmiller」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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