Marilyn Salzman Webb

Marilyn Salzman Webb, also known as Marilyn Webb (born 1942) is an American activist, author, journalist, and professor.

She was part of Students for a Democratic Society. In 1969, the New Left, including Students for a Democratic Society, was present at a Counter-Inaugural to Richard Nixon’s first inauguration, at which the antiwar leader Dave Dellinger, serving as master of ceremonies, incorrectly announced, “The women have asked all the men to leave the stage.” After that, Webb attempted to speak about women's oppression, and Students for a Democratic Society men heckled her, shouting, "Take her off the stage and fuck her!" and so forth until she was drowned out. Later Webb received a threatening phone call which she thought was from Cathy Wilkerson, but that was not confirmed, and it may have been from a government agent. In any case, the call contributed to driving apart outspoken feminists in the national SDS and people who put anti-racist and anti-war work before feminism and went toward the Weathermen.

Webb and Heidi Steffens, Marlene Wicks, Colette Reid, and Norma Lesser formed the original off our backs collective; off our backs was a feminist periodical founded in 1970. Webb also founded the first women's groups in Chicago and Washington D.C.

Webb wrote The Good Death: The New American Search to Reshape the End of Life (1997), for which she was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. She co-edited Talking Poetics from Naropa Institute: Annals of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Volumes One and Two, with Anne Waldman. She also wrote and edited for many periodicals, was editor-in-chief of Psychology Today, and led a redesign of Psychology Today.

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