Ann Snitow

Ann Snitow has been a feminist activist since l969 when she was a founding member of New York Radical Feminists. She is co-editor of Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality, a central text in U.S. debates about the historicity of sexual experience, and of The Feminist Memoir Project. A professor of gender studies and literature at The New School for Social Research, she has written germinal articles about feminism. A founder of the Feminist Anti-Censorship Task Force, of the action group No More Nice Girls and of the Network of East-West Women (NEWW), her most recent writing and political work is about the changing situation of women in Eastern Europe.