Ann Snitow
Ann Snitow (1943–2019) was a longtime activist, feminist movement founder, academic, and writer. She was Professor Emerita of Literature and Gender Studies at Eugene Lang College, the New School, and co-founded numerous organizations, including The Network of East-West Women; No More Nice Girls; Feminist Anti-Censorship Taskforce “FACT”; Take Back the Future; and New York Radical Feminists.
A frequent contributor of essays to The Village Voice, The Nation, and Dissent, Snitow also had several published titles. These include The Feminism of Uncertainty: A Gender Diary (Duke University Press, 2015); Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality (Monthly Review Press, 1983); The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women’s Liberation (Rutgers University Press, 2007), and her last book, Visitors: An American Feminist in East Central Europe (New Village Press, 2020).
Snitow co-founded the Women’s Studies Program at Rutgers University and the Gender Studies Program at The New School for Social Research, where she taught for three decades. He legacy is honored with the Ann Snitow Prize, and annual award bestowing $10,000 to a person whose work combines feminist artistic pursuits with social justice activism.