Brownmiller changed history. And she did so again in 1978, when she decided to invest her time, and significant royalties from Against Our Will, in Women Against Pornography (WAP), a New York grassroots antipornography movement headquartered in New York City’s Times Square.

Without her organizing, the so-called “sex wars” of the 1980s—including attempts to make harm from pornography a civil crime—might never have had the impact they did, on feminism or on United States politics. In subsequent years, Brownmiller continued to explore the often-deadly ramifications of sexism for women in essays, books, and personal appearances. By the 1990s, when feminism’s momentum had shifted to a new generation, Brownmiller worked to keep its original ideas before the public in a memoir, In Our Time (1999), and by participating in documentaries and interviews that archived radical feminism’s achievements.

https://thenewhistoria.org/manifesto/

I read her and Andrea Dworkin as a teenager, married with two kids, after a childhood of CSE. God, did they open my eyes. It was just amazing to read these things that I’d kind of felt around the edges of but hadn’t known what they were called - being opposed to porn, but I couldn’t have told you why, other than in my experience it meant men made a beeline for the first female, no rejections allowed, for example. Being angry at how women around me only seemed to be judged as worthwhile if they were young, white, thin, wore make-up and clothing that accentuated their female figure. Women were only judged as intelligent or successful if they looked that way too. Why it was okay for men to go to ‘men’s nights’ at the local dodgy pub - where there would be a comedian full of sexist and racist jokes, and strippers that the comedian encouraged the crowd to have sex with - but no women were allowed, we weren’t allowed to complain about it either. Sure, we had ‘Chippendales’ pushed as the acceptable women’s version, but I had zero interest in it. And women couldn’t understand or like football either…I could when I was a kid (it was cute then), but once I hit my teens, I evidently forgot the offside rule forever, or something.

Truly life-changing books, amazing women who spoke and wrote to every one of us and made us feel we weren’t alone or ‘crazy’ for feeling how we did. Can never thank them enough.

I let out an anguished "Oh no!" when I saw this. You made me think she'd passed for a moment!

Happy to say I got to read her work as an undergraduate when women's studies was actually a thing. Required reading for sure.