Is It Violence? Is It Sex?
September, 2000
More than 25 years ago, Susan Brownmiller made rape the centerpiece of the feminist movement. In Against Our Will she argued that rape was the primal act of a patriarchal society: "Man's discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times, along with the use of fire and the first crude stone ax. From prehistoric times to the present, rape has played a critical function. It is nothing more, or less, tha...
