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Anica Vesel Mander
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Feminist author and professor Anica Vesel Mander, whose research helped to legally classify rape as a war crime, died of breast cancer Wednesday.She was 67.
In the early 1990s, Mander traveled to her native Yugoslavia on a fact-finding mission.Her interviews with Bosnian rape victims led an international tribunal to declare rape a war crime.
In 1976, Mander, known as Ani, founded a division of Random House called Moon Books, considered the first feminist publishing house, in Berkeley.
"Feminism is a political term and it must be recognized as such: it is political in women's terms," she wrote in "Feminism as Therapy," which she co-authored in 1974.She also wrote "Blood Ties, A Woman's History" in 1976.