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Off Our Backs

Not to be confused with On Our Backs.
For the song, see Off Our Backs (song).

Off Our Backs
LanguageEnglish
Edited byCollective
Publication details
History1970–2008
Publisher
Off Our Backs, Inc. (United States)
FrequencyBimonthly
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Off Our Backs
Indexing
ISSN0030-0071
LCCNsv86023034
JSTOR00300071
OCLC no.1038241
Links

Off Our Backs (stylized in all lowercase; oob) was an American radical feminist periodical that ran from 1970 to 2008,[1][2] making it the longest-running feminist periodical in the United States. Marilyn Salzman-Webb and Marlene Wicks were among Off Our Backs original founders,[3][4] creating the periodical in Washington, D.C.[3] as a response to what many felt was an underrepresentation of the women’s liberation movement in mainstream media.[5][4] It was a self-sustaining periodical[2] edited and published by a collective of women[3] consisting mainly of volunteers[4] who practiced consensus decision-making. Reporting on feminism related topics,[5][3] the periodical transitioned from a monthly to a bi-monthly[6] newspaper, and ultimately to a quarterly magazine[7] before financial difficulties led to its termination in 2008.[4][8]

Off Our Backs dealt with some controversy in 1984 during the creation of On Our Backs.[9][10][11]

Archives of Off Our Backs are housed at Hornbake Library, University of Maryland.[12]

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  2. ^ a b admin. "Interview with Dr. Marilyn Webb". Veteran Feminists of America. Retrieved November 6, 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d "Chapter 3 | The Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press". Retrieved November 6, 2023.
  4. ^ a b c d "An Interview with Carol Anne Douglas". TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism. Retrieved November 7, 2023.
  5. ^ a b Douglas, Carol Anne (1995). "Cover Story: Back to Off Our Backs". Off Our Backs. 25 (2): 5–21. JSTOR 20835056.
  6. ^ Groves, Sharon (Summer 2005). "Celebrating 'Off Our Backs' 35 years of independent feminist publishing". Feminist Studies. 31 (2): 447–451. Gale A136113221 ProQuest 233177239.
  7. ^ "An Interview with Carol Anne Douglas". TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism. Retrieved November 5, 2023.
  8. ^ Marshall, Lucinda (July 11, 2008). "Off Our Backs In Financial Trouble". Women In Media and Film.
  9. ^ www.bibliopolis.com. "off our backs, vol. IV, no. 9 on Boo-Hooray". Boo-Hooray. Retrieved June 12, 2024.
  10. ^ Josh Sides, "Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco", Oxford University Press US, 2009, ISBN 0-19-537781-8, p.219
  11. ^ Martha Cornog, Timothy Perper, "For sex education, see librarian: a guide to issues and resources", Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 0-313-29022-9, p.97
  12. ^ "Collection: Off Our Backs records | Archival Collections". archives.lib.umd.edu. Retrieved August 31, 2020.

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