Diana E. H. Russell

Who is Diana E. H. Russell?

Diana E. H. Russell is a feminist writer and activist. Born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa, she moved to England in 1957, and then to the United States 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, 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. She was also the recipient of the 2001 Humanist Heroine Award from the American Humanist Association.

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