Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Susan Brownmiller

American feminist writer and journalist, author of Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (1975); she and Mailer had a public exchange at a New York Public Library event in December 1978.

Susan Brownmiller, the American feminist writer whose Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (1975) reframed the politics of sexual violence, had a public exchange with Mailer at a New York Public Library event in December 1978 (see 78.6) — one more round in the argument that had run since The Prisoner of Sex.

Stub created during the 1978 ingest.

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