Miriam Schneir is the editor of the anthology Feminism in Our Time: The Essential Writings, World War II to the Present and Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings, and author of Before Feminism: The History of an Idea Without a Name (2021). She coauthored Remember the Ladies: Women in America, 1750-1815, and wrote with Walter Schneir (her husband) Invitation to an Inquest, a study of the Rosenberg case. She also edited and wrote the preface and afterword for Final Verdict: What Really Happened in the Rosenberg Case (2011), which was written by Walter Schneir.
Her articles have appeared in Ms., 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.
