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as another course. In 1981 she gathered together people to form No More Nice Girls, a feminist street theatre group whose message was pro abortion and to uncover female sexuality. Three years later she founded the similarly themed "FACT" which tried to reduce the impact of anti-pornography
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Soon after her death, a prize was created in her honor. The Ann Snitow Prize aims to award "a feminist intellectual and activist, living and working in the United States, who has consistently exhibited the qualities that led Ann to be so admired and cherished." Awardees include
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campaigners. Snitow's approach was summarised as "Pro-sex" as she did not want to see more censorship. In 1983 she brought together her thoughts about feminist sexuality, anti-pornography and prostitution in an essay titled "
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Snitow's papers are at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts where Snitow was a professor of literature and gender studies.
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Snitow’s partner from 1977 until her death was Daniel Goode; they married in 2004. Snitow died of bladder cancer in New York in 2019.
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She was a serial movement founder. In 1977 she founded CARASA to campaign against sterilisation and for the right to abortion.
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FACT (Feminist Anti-Censorship Taskforce), 1984, opposing the feminist anti-pornography movement
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Snitow was born in New York City to a Jewish family. Her father Charles Snitow was born in
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Snitow became a founding member of the New York Radical Feminists in 1969 with her friend
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In the 1970s she became known for her talks on the not for profit New York radio show
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immigrants Aaron Snitow and Mary Sackowitz. Her mother Virginia Snitow was born in
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Snitow, Ann Barr; Stansell, Christine; Thompson, Sharon, eds. (1983).
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The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women's Liberation
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American feminist activist, writer, and teacher (1943–2019)
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DuPlessis, Rachel Blau; Snitow, Ann Barr, eds. (1998).
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David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
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Visitors: An American Feminist in East Central Europe.
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In 2002 she founded the group "Take Back the Future".
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in Manhattan during the 1980s, where she established
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Snitow earned her undergraduate degree in English at
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in 1965, then began studying for a doctorate at the
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Ann Snitow

Manhattan
Feminist activist
feminist activist
New York Radical Feminists
Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan
Russian-Jewish
Brooklyn
Kiev
Huși
Cornell University
University of London
Ellen Willis
Womankind
WBAI
New School for Social Research
gender studies
Premilla Nadasen
Sarah Schulman
Mariame Kaba
New York Radical Feminists
CARASA
Katha Pollitt
ISBN
9789350020203
ISBN
9780813539737
ISBN
9780822375678

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