The Feminism of Uncertainty: A Gender Diary
Ann Snitow is Associate Professor of Literature and Gender Studies at Lang College, The New School, in New York City. A longtime activist, Snitow has cofounded The Network of East-West Women, No More Nice Girls, and New York Radical Feminists. She has written for The Village Voice, The Nation, The Women’s Review of Books, Dissent, and many other publications, and is coeditor of Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality and The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women's Liberation.
Remembering, Forgetting, and the Making of The Feminist Memoir Project
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Published:August 2015
Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Ann Snitow spent six years pulling memoirs out of the humble, the busy, the still passionate, and the disaffected – all were feminist activists in the US in the l970s. Using the research of William Hirst, this piece explores the general weaknesses of memory but adds examples of how women’s activism has usually been aggressively forgotten: in men’s accounts of the 1960s; in the founding myth of the New School for Social Research; in heroic tales of the struggle for Civil Rights; and in narrations of women’s early participation in psychoanalysis (as described by Nancy Chodorow)....
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