NEW YORK – Susan Brownmiller, a prominent feminist and author of the 1960s and '70s whose "Against Our Will" was a landmark and intensely debated bestseller about sexual assault, has died. She was 90.

Susan Brownmiller, a feminist author, journalist and activist whose book "Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape" helped define the modern view of rape, debunking it as an act of passion and reframing ...

Her book “Against Our Will” argued that rape was a crime of power and violence, not passion; it led to laws that made it easier to prosecute rapists. Susan Brownmiller in 1988. Her “Against Our Will: ...