Margaret "Peg" Strobel Biography
by Jennifer Palmer and Margaret "Peg"
Strobel(1999)
Margaret
"Peg" Strobel teaches history and women's studies at the
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She has written about the
CWLU and is working on a book about it aimed at high school and lower-division
college students. She was not a member of the CWLU, because she was
living in Kenya (where she first heard about the organization from
a visiting U.S. feminist) and in Los Angeles and completing her PhD.
During
the 1970s, she was a founder of the Socialist Community School of
the New American Movement (NAM, a socialist feminist organization),
which was patterned after the CWLU's Liberation School. She first
met CWLU members when the Blazing Star chapter of the CWLU joined
NAM following the demise of the women's union. The Women's Studies
Program at UIC was founded by CWLU members and remains a lasting CWLU
legacy.
