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Brownmiller, too, insists that it is time for women to fight back. But she is less interested in individual action than in defining the issue politically and forcing society to act. "My purpose in this book has been to give rape its history," she writes. "Now we must deny it a future...
...Science, she took a course taught by Herbert Aptheker, the American Communist historian and specialist in Southern studies. In the historian's thunderous lectures on white exploitation of Southern blacks, including the abuse of black women, Brownmiller recalls, "I heard for the first time in my life that rape was a political act." She joined the civil rights movement, working two years in Mississippi as a summer volunteer. After a brief stint as a TV reporter in Philadelphia, she signed on as a Village Voice staff writer...
...feminist circles. "All of a sudden I knew I was home," says Brownmiller. "I knew I was where I belonged." As a member of the New York Radical Feminists, she was a prime mover behind two major feminist meetings: a conference on prostitution and a 1971 speak-out on rape. Laying out the program on rape, she thought, "My God, I'm organizing a book...
...Rape or Redress? Against this chilling backdrop the Senate, after months of delay, last week took up the emotional subject of how much gas prices should be allowed to rise in order to coax more gas out of the ground and into pipelines to consuming states. At stake were billions of dollars that gas producers and pipeline operators might reap in higher prices, the jobs of workers in industries dependent upon gas, and the comfort of millions of home dwellers. Oklahoma Republican Dewey F. Bartlett warned that if the Democrats succeeded in keeping prices under tight control, gas producers would...
...assault on Mrs. Scarlett was not merely an attempted rape, but a grotesque sexual debasement in which the woman was treated as if she were the chief object of a pigsticking game. Millington's defense is handled by his contemporary. Second Lieut. Arthur Drake (Michael York), who figures his client is guilty but cannot quite allow himself to go along with the military court's charade of justice. A good thing, too, be cause there is an increasingly likely chance that Millington is blameless...