Voices Speaking Out About Rape

* Susan Brownmiller: The grande dame of rape politics who helped spur legal reform in the ‘70s with her 1975 landmark book: “Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape.”

* Susan Estrich: USC law professor, erstwhile campaign manager for Michael Dukakis and author of the 1987 book, “Real Rape,” which examined the law’s historic distinction between “real rape” perpetrated by an armed stranger and “not real rape” committed by an acquaintance.

* Linda Fairstein: Head of the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office since 1976; campaigned for law reform in New York and examined the issue in her new book, “Sexual Violence: Our War Against Rape.”

* Susan Faludi: A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the 1991 book “Backlash,” which argues that every successful feminist movement has been followed by a vitriolic backlash that threatens the rights and self-esteem of women.

* Catharine MacKinnon: A feminist legal theorist, author and law professor at the University of Michigan, whose work led to the definition of “hostile environment” in sexual harassment cases. Her doctrine that pornography harms women led to an unsuccessful drive for an anti-pornography ordinance in Minneapolis, which came under fire by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Feminist Anti-Censorship Task Force.

* Camille Paglia: A neo-feminist writer who teaches at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, author of 1990’s “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence From Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson,” champion of Madonna and vociferous critic of other feminists whom she accuses of every social ill from dowdiness to puritanism.

* Katie Roiphe: A Princeton University graduate student in English literature whose hotly contested new book, “The Morning After: Sex, Fear and Feminism on Campus,” accuses women of confusing lousy sex with rape and reveling in victimhood.