Susan Brownmiller is a well-known feminist in the 1960s and 1970s, author of his “Breaking Our Will” is a landmark and a fierce bestseller debate on sexual assault. She is 90 years old.

Brownmiller, who died in a New York hospital, died Saturday at a New York hospital, said New York State Supreme Court justice and practicing attorney Emily Jane Goodman.

Brownmiller was one of many women who radicalized in the 1960s and 1970s before joining the "second wave" feminist movement, and in part of the 1960s and 1970s, including Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan and Kate Millett, who included Gloria Steinem and Kate Millett.

Although activists in the early 20th century focused on voting rights, a second wave of feminism changed conversations about sex, marriage reproductive rights, workplace harassment and domestic violence. Brownmiller, like anyone, opens up the discussion of rape.

Published in 1975, in War and Prison, to children and spouses in War, prison, to our will, to our will, to men and women: men, women and rape. "She condemned the glory of rape in popular culture, believed that rape was an act of violence rather than desire, and traced it back to the foundations of human history.

“The structural ability of men to rape and the corresponding structural vulnerability of women are fundamental to our gender physiology, just like the original behavior of the gender itself,” she wrote.

In 1999's memoir, "In Our Times," Brown Miller likened the writing of "anti-our will" to "shooting an arrow into the eyes of a bull with very slow movements." Brownmiller began the book in the early 1970s after hearing stories from her friend “depressed” her screams. It was chosen as the primary option for menstrual book clubs and was considered newsworthy enough to have Brown Miller interviewed on Barbara Walters' Today Show. In 1976, Time magazine placed her photos on the cover with Billie Jean King, Betty Ford and nine other "Women of the Year."

Brownmiller’s book inspired survivors to tell their own stories, women organize the Center for Rape Crisis and help lead to the passage of the Marriage Rape Law. It is also accepted by fear, chaos and anger. Brownmiller remembers a newspaper reporter shouting to her, "You have no right to bother me with this idea!"

Brownmiller, who was also displeased with writing, believed rape was a power claim for everyone and was strongly criticized for the chapter titled “Race Issues,” in which she revisited the 1955 murder of Black Black Teen Emmett Till, a black teenager in Mississippi in 1955. Brown Miller condemned him for suffering a horrible death at the hands of the white mob, but also blamed the alleged incident that led to his death: a whistle to Bryant's wife, Carolyn Bryant.

This chapter reflects ongoing tensions between feminists and civil rights leaders, and activist Angela Davis writes that Brown Miller’s views are “full of racist ideas.” In 2017, New Yorker editor David Remnick called her article "moral forgetting." When Time magazine asked about Thiel's passage in 2015, she replied that she stood "every word".

Steinem will criticize Brownmiller for comments posted in a 2015 interview with New York magazine, when Brownmiller said one way for women to avoid being beaten is not to get drunk, which shows that women themselves should blame.

Brownmiller's other books include "Femaleness," "Seeing Vietnam" and the novel "Waverley Square," based on a highly public trial of attorney Joel Steinberg, who was convicted of manslaughter in 1987 for the death of his 6-year-old daughter Lisa. In recent years, Brown Miller has taught at Pace University.

"She is an active feminist, she is not the one who agrees with the pandemic problem of the day," Goodman said.

She recalls Brownmiller’s longtime Greenwich Village apartment, including Poker Nights, the theme of her 2017 book My City Premium Gardens.

Another long-time close friend, Alix Kates Shulman, 92, is a writer and feminist, lives within walking distance.

"We are comrades who are liberated by women," she said.

Brownmiller was born in New York City in 1935 and proudly noted that her birthday was February 15, the same as Susan B. Anthony. Her father is a sales clerk and her mother is a secretary, and they all dedicated to Franklin Roosevelt and are so familiar with current affairs that Brownmiller is “very strong about these things too.” She is a scholarship major at Cornell University Scholarship and has a brief “very wrong ambition” to become a Broadway star, hoping to take a role that never came true, as an archivist and waitress.

The civil rights movement changed her life.

She joined the Racial Equality Conference in 1960 and four years later, she was one of the “Free Summer” volunteers who went to Mississippi to help register for black vote. In the 1960s, she also wrote for Country Voice and ABC TV and was a researcher for Newsweek.

In the late 1970s, Brownmiller joined other members, including Steinem and Adrienne Rich, to help the New York chapter of "anti-porn women." Organizers agree that pornography can degenerate and abused women, but differs in how they respond. Brownmiller wrote an influential article, “Let’s put pornography back in the closet”, arguing that porn is protected by the First Amendment. But she opposed the legislative push from opposition leader Catherine Mackinnon, who argued that porn is best faced through education and protests.

In the 1980s, Brownmiller stepped out of activism, noting in her memoirs that her despair for “slow penetration, symbolic failure and small partitions” were both the cause and the symptom of the movement’s decline. But she still remembers her early years as a rare and precious chapter.

"When a wedding like this happens, when the vision is clear and the sisterly friendship is strong, the mountains are moved and the human landscape is forever changed," Brown Miller wrote. "Of course, it is very unrealistic to speak to half of humanity with a voice, but it is what feminism always tries to do, and it must be done, and that is the amazing success that women liberation have done in our time."