About the Author

Miriam Schneir is the editor of the anthologyFeminism in Our Time- The Essential Writings, World War II to the Presentand Feminism- The Essential Historical Writings. She coauthored"Remembering the Ladies"- Women in America, 1750-1815, and wrote with Walter SchneirInvitation to an Inquest, a study of the Rosenberg case. Her articles have appeared inMs.,The Nation,The New York Times Magazine, and various other publications. Under the auspices of Columbia Teachers College, she prepared a critique of the coverage and treatment of women in a multivolume encyclopedia, which was the basis for revision of the encyclopedia. She was a research associate with Columbia University Center for the Social Sciences Program in Sex Roles and Social Change.