Diana E. H. Russell

Diana E. H. Russell (born November 6, 1938) is a radical feminist writer and activist. Born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa, she moved to England in 1957, and then to the United States of America in 1961. For the past 25 years she has been engaged in research on sexual violence against women and girls. She has written numerous books and articles on rape (including marital rape), femicide, incest, misogynist murders of women, and pornography. For her book The Secret Trauma, she was co-recipient of the 1986 C. Wright Mills Award.

Russell was a key organizer of the First International Tribunal on Crimes against Women, in Brussels in March 1976.

Selected bibliography

• Russell, Diana E. H.; and Roberta A. Harmes (eds.) (2001). Femicide in global perspective. New York: Teachers College Press. ISBN 0-8077-4048-9. 
• Russell, Diana E. H.; and Rebecca M. Bolen (2000). The Epidemic of Rape and Child Sexual Abuse in the United States. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications. ISBN 0-7619-0301-1. 
• Russell, Diana E. H. (1998). Dangerous Relationships: Pornography, Misogyny, and Rape. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications. ISBN 0-7619-0524-3. 
• Russell, Diana E. H. (1997). Behind Closed Doors in White South Africa: Incest Survivors Tell Their Stories. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-17374-1. 
• Russell, Diana E. H. (1993). Against Pornography: The Evidence of Harm. Berkeley, Calif.: Russell Pub.. ISBN 0-9634776-1-7. 
• Russell, Diana E. H. (ed.) (1993). Making Violence Sexy: Feminist Views on Pornography. New York: Teachers College Press. ISBN 0-8077-6269-5. 
• Radford, Jill; and Diana E. H. Russell (eds.) (1992). Femicide: The Politics of Woman Killing. New York: Twayne. ISBN 0-8057-9026-8. 
• Russell, Diana E. H. (1990). Rape in Marriage (rev. ed. ed.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-35055-7. 
• Russell, Diana E. H. (ed.) (1989). Exposing Nuclear Phallacies. New York: Pergamon Press. ISBN 0-08-036476-4. 
• Russell, Diana E. H. (1989). Lives of Courage: Women for a New South Africa. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-04139-6. 
• Russell, Diana E. H. (1986). The Secret Trauma: Incest in the Lives of Girls and Women. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-07595-9. 
• Russell, Diana E. H. (1984). Sexual Exploitation: Rape, Child Sexual Abuse, and Workplace Harassment. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications. ISBN 0-8039-2354-6. 
• Russell, Diana E. H. (1974). The Politics of Rape: The Victim's Perspective. New York: Stein and Day. ISBN 0-8128-1657-9. 

See also

• Femicide

External links

• Homepage
• Diana Russell on web radio, June 26, 2000