Susan Brownmiller obituary

Feminist writer and activist whose 1975 book Against Our Will revolutionised attitudes to rape

Colin Henfrey obituary

Other lives: Sociology lecturer at Liverpool University who played a key role in establishing the anti-Pinochet campaign in Britain

Writer and film-maker at the heart of the African Dawn group who directed the critically acclaimed 1991 feature Ama

Teacher and writer of ‘youth novels’, which he defended as a literature worth studying and preserving

Other lives: Printmaker, painter, wood engraver and writer who lived and worked in Jedburgh

Jane Tranter’s The Other Bennet Sister will ditch the ‘fetishisation’ of period drama to draw viewers into the novelist’s world

Other lives: Writer and cross-cultural organiser who founded the multilingual Kavya Rang poetry group in Nottingham

Irish poet whose work dealt with misogyny, cruelty and bigotry, but could also be caustically hilarious

One of the world’s greatest documentary photographers fascinated by nature and traditional ways of life

Provocative philosopher who argued that current morality has been cut off from its roots ‘largely thanks to the Enlightenment’

Other lives: Literary scholar and academic who had a long friendship and correspondence with the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett

Guardian jazz critic for over 30 years who also contributed widely to respected music books

Psychoanalyst and art therapist hailed for her bestselling 2015 book Boarding School Syndrome

Other lives: Ecological thinker who wrote 100 books on the environment, including A Blueprint for Survival with Edward Goldsmith

US international affairs scholar who pointed to soft power as a complement to military and economic might