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, Ann also had several published titles. These include The Feminism of Uncertainty (Duke University Press, 2015); Powers of Desire (Monthly Review Press, 1983); The Feminist Memoir Project: (Rutgers University Press, 2007), and her last book, Visitors: An American Feminist in East Central Europe (New Village Press, 2020).
Ann 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. Her legacy is honored with the Ann Snitow Prize, an annual award of $10,000 given for work combining feminist artistic pursuits with social justice activism.
