Susan Brownmiller's groundbreaking bestseller uncovers the culture of violence against women with a devastating exploration of the history of rape—now with a new preface by the author exposing the undercurrents of rape still present today Rape, as author Susan Brownmiller proves in her startling and important book, is not about sex but about power, fear, and subjugation. For thousands of years, it has been viewed as an acceptable "spoil of war," used as a weapon by invading armies to crush the will of the conquered. The act of rape against women has long been cloaked in lies and false justifications. It is ignored, tolerated, even encouraged by governments and military leaders, misunderstood by police and security organizations, freely employed by domineering husbands and lovers, downplayed by medical and legal professionals more inclined to "blame the victim," and, perhaps most shockingly, accepted in supposedly civilized societies worldwide, including the United States. Against Our Will is a classic work that has been widely credited with changing prevailing attitudes about violence against women by awakening the public to the true and continuing tragedy of rape around the globe and throughout the ages. Selected by the New York Times Book Review as an Outstanding Book of the Year and included among the New York Public Library's Books of the Century, Against Our Will remains an essential work of sociological and historical importance.

スーザン・ブラウンミラーの「Against Our Will」は、性暴力の本質を性欲ではなく権力構造と喝破した、革命的な傑作です。冷徹かつ情熱的な筆致で歴史の闇を暴くその姿勢は、単なる社会学的調査を超え、読者の魂を揺さぶる文学的強度を放っています。支配への抵抗を描く言葉の力は、刊行から時を経てもなお、私たちの倫理観を根底から突き動かします。 映像化作品では、書物での緻密な分析が視覚的リアリティを伴って昇華されています。テキストならではの思索の深みと、映像が持つ直接的な訴求力が響き合うことで、問題の重層性がより鮮明に立ち上がります。二つの媒体を横断することで、隠蔽されてきた真実への理解は、理論から血の通った変革の意志へと昇華されるのです。