of Women in America. Against Our Will Against Our Will (1975) is a feminist book in which Brownmiller argues that rape "is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear." In order to write the book, after having helped to organize the New York Radical Feminists Speak-Out on Rape on January 24, 1971, and the New York Radical Feminists Conference on Rape on April 17, 1971, she spent four years researching rape. She studied rape throughout history, from the earliest codes of human law up into modern times. She collected clippings to find patterns in the way in which rape is reported in various types of newspapers, analyzed portrayals of rape in literature, films, and popular music, and evaluated crime statistics. Brownmiller's basic premise was contested by some sections of the left wing, who considered it untrue that "all men benefit" from the culture of rape, and who believed rather that it was possible to organize both women and men together to oppose sexual violence. The book also received criticism from feminists, including bell hooks and Angela Davis, who wrote Brownmiller's discussion of rape and race became an "unthinking partisanship which borders on racism". After the book was published, she was named as one of the Time magazine people of the year. In 1995, the New York Public Library selected Against Our Will as one of 100 most important books of the 20th century. Books Shirley Chisholm: A Biography (Doubleday, 1970) Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape (Simon and Schuster, 1975/Fawcett Columbine 1993) Femininity (Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, 1984) Waverly Place (Grove Press, 1989) Seeing Vietnam: Encounters of the Road and Heart (Harper Collins, 1994) In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution (Dial Press, 1990) My City High Rise Garden (Rutgers University Press, 2017) Honors Brownmiller won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship in 1973 to research and write about the crime of rape. She was named as one of 12 Women of the Year by Time magazine in 1975. She is featured in the feminist history film She's Beautiful When She's Angry (2014). Personal life She has described herself as "a single woman", even though "I was always a great believer in romance and partnership." "I would like to be in close association with a man whose work I respect," she told an interviewer in