Ann Barr Snitow papers, 1950s-2019

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Summary

Creator:
Snitow, Ann Barr, 1943- and Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture
Abstract:
Ann Barr Snitow was a feminist activist, writer, and professor of literature and gender studies at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts. The collection includes teaching files, subject files, materials documenting Snitow's involvement in various feminist activist groups and organizations, Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, her work with Ellen Willis, feminist publications in Eastern European languages, writings, speeches, correspondence, interviews, Carol Jacobsen films, and recordings of Snitow's feminist radio shows on WBAI in New York.
Extent:
102 Linear Feet
Language:
Material in English
Collection ID:
RL.01226

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Scope and content:

Collection includes Snitow's teaching files and materials with an emphasis on her work in Eastern Europe, career files, research files, speeches, correspondence, diaries, journals, notebooks, subject files, materials documenting Snitow's involvement in various activist groups and organizations, feminist publications in Eastern European languages, Snitow's writings and publications, published and unpublished materials documenting women's studies, feminist theory and feminist movements, recorded interviews, Snitow's recorded speeches, recordings of Snitow's radio shows on WBAI, and films by feminist documentarian Carol Jacobsen.

Biographical / historical:

Ann Barr Snitow (1943-2019) was a feminist activist, writer, and professor of literature and gender studies at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts. She was born in New York and graduated with a literature degree from Cornell in 1965. After pursuing doctoral studies in London, she returned to New York in 1969 and became involved with the feminist movement. In the early 1970s, she hosted the radio show Womankind on the WBAI. She began her teaching career in the Gender Studies department at Rutgers in 1972, where she spent ten years before leaving for The New School. From 1981-1992, she directed the monthly seminar Sex, Gender, and Consumer Culture at the New York Institute for the Humanities. Snitow taught and researched in Poland from the 1980s-2019.

Snitow was one of the founding members of many feminist activist groups including the New York Radical Feminists (1969), Committee for Abortion Rights and Against Sterlization Abuse (1977), No More Nice Girls (1981), Feminist Anti-Censorship Task Force (1984), Network of East-West Women (1991), with Katha Pollitt and Ellen Willis, and Take Back the Future (2002).

Among her publications, Snitow co/authored or co/edited the books Radical Feminism (1973), Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality (1983), The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women's Liberation (1998), The Feminism of Uncertainty: A Gender Diary (Duke Press, 2015), and Visitors: An American Feminist in East Central Europe (2020).

Acquisition information:
The Ann Barr Snitow papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a purchase and gift in 2011, 2016-2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022.
Processing information:

Processed by Megan E. Lewis and Kate Collins, January 2012

Encoded by Megan E. Lewis, February 2012

Updated 2019 by Amelia Verkirk; October 2020 by Megan E. Lewis; 2022 by Leah Tams; 2024 by Laura Micham

Accession(s) described in this finding aid: 2011-1027, 2016 and 2017, 2019-0134, 2020-0071, 2022-0102.

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