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in memoriam Janet Elise Johnson (Brooklyn College, CUNY) and Mara Lazda (Bronx Community College, CUNY) Ann Snitow, Emerita Lecturer in Liberal Studies and Associate Professor of Literature at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College, passionate feminist and scholar for almost fi ve decades in New York City, fearless activist and mentor for three decades in Central and Eastern Europe, died on 10 August 2019. Improvising East-West Feminisms A prominent literary scholar, Ann was not initially trained in or focused on the re- gion of Central and Eastern Europe. Her most prominent work before the Germans pulled down the wall was a feminist anthology, Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality (1983), coedited with Christine Stansell and Sharon Thompson. Powers of Desire was an activist-literary-scholarly cri de coeur for a messy, embodied, and inter sectional feminist politics of women’s sexual pleasures. The editors’ introduction engages in a conversation with various and contradictory Marxist experiments, but here, socialism was a theoretical or Anglo-American enterprise. Her chapter is (radically) literary, an analysis of the contradictory sexual fantasies of Harlequin romance novels. Beginning in 1990, Ann turned her attention and energies to Central and Eastern Europe, after feminist writer
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Published: Mar 1, 2020
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