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| Language | English |
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| Edited by | Collective |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1970–2008 |
| Publisher | Off Our Backs, Inc. (United States) |
| Frequency | Bimonthly |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Off Our Backs |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0030-0071 |
| LCCN | sv86023034 |
| JSTOR | 00300071 |
| OCLC no. | 1038241 |
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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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- ^ a b admin. "Interview with Dr. Marilyn Webb". Veteran Feminists of America. Retrieved November 6, 2023.
- ^ a b c d "Chapter 3 | The Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press". Retrieved November 6, 2023.
- ^ a b c d "An Interview with Carol Anne Douglas". TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism. Retrieved November 7, 2023.
- ^ a b Douglas, Carol Anne (1995). "Cover Story: Back to Off Our Backs". Off Our Backs. 25 (2): 5–21. JSTOR 20835056.
- ^ Groves, Sharon (Summer 2005). "Celebrating 'Off Our Backs' 35 years of independent feminist publishing". Feminist Studies. 31 (2): 447–451. Gale A136113221 ProQuest 233177239.
- ^ "An Interview with Carol Anne Douglas". TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism. Retrieved November 5, 2023.
- ^ Marshall, Lucinda (July 11, 2008). "Off Our Backs In Financial Trouble". Women In Media and Film.
- ^ www.bibliopolis.com. "off our backs, vol. IV, no. 9 on Boo-Hooray". Boo-Hooray. Retrieved June 12, 2024.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ "Collection: Off Our Backs records | Archival Collections". archives.lib.umd.edu. Retrieved August 31, 2020.