I may have missed this but......

Marilyn French, whose novel The Women's Room is a feminist classic, died Saturday in New York of heart failure.
She was 79.

After French's 18-year-old daughter was raped, her experience trying to convince the district attorney to prosecute the rapist helped radicalize her opinions on the way society regards women.

Much of French's scholarly work was dedicated to exploring how society treats women

In a 2007 interview she said she was still an "angry person," particularly when she saw the plight of women in other countries.

"I don't know if anger is a good thing, but it is useful and I don't know how you can avoid it. You look at the world and it's the only possible reaction"