THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Marilyn Salzman Webb
“We haven’t changed who we are, we just keep dealing with different issues.”
Professor, author, journalist, and organizer. Co-organizer and founder of the first women’s CR group in Chicago, 1966. Co-organized the first women’s CR group in Washington, D.C. in 1967. Co-founded the DC Women’s Liberation group’s governing structure, A Magic Quilt. Students for a Democratic Society, 1967. Key organizer of the Sandy Springs Conference and co-organized the Lake Villa Conference in 1968. Co-founder of Washington Women’s Liberation, 1967–1968. Co-founder of Off Our Backs, a feminist news journal, 1970. Co-founded “what may have been the first women’s studies program at a college, Goddard College, in 1970,” and served as its executive director. Co-launched Sagaris Institute, 1975. Senior editor at Woman’s Day, McCall’s and US magazines, and was editor-in-chief at Psychology Today. Taught at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York. Professor Emerita, Knox College.
Interviewed by Kathy Rand, VFA Executive VP, June 2021
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Photo. Marilyn Webb, circa 1970.
More About Marilyn:
- Marilyn Webb’s biography 2021
- It’s Taken 5 Decades to Get the PhD Her Abusive Professor Denied Her, by Nicholas Kristof, May 25, 2019
- Marilyn Webb comes full circle to complete PhD degree, by Jack Wang, May 13, 2019
- Ed Sutkowski talks with Marilyn Webb, distinguished professor of journalism and author of The Good Death: The New American Search to Reshape the End of Life, March 8, 2013
- The Good Death, The New American Search to Reshape the End of Life by Marilyn Webb
- Kirkus review of The Good Death
- Veteran Feminists of America celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Women’s Liberation Movement, Marilyn’s remarks. December 1997
- Marilyn is highlighted in the Mary Dore film, She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry
- The Maytag Project: Knox Professors, Students Study Former Factory Workers
- Becoming the Men We Wanted to Marry, by Marilyn Webb, The Village Voice, Jan 4, 1973
- The Angry Young Women, The Washington Star, May 25, 1969
- Archives
- Wikipedia page
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America, pages 482 – 483