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
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
