Laura L. Lovett
Author of With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism
About the Author
Laura L. Lovett is an associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh and the author or co-editor of several books, including "It's Our Movement Now": Black Women's Politics and the 1977 National Women's Conference.
Works by Laura L. Lovett
With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism (2021) 20 copies
When we were free to be : looking back at a children's classic and the difference it made (2012) — Editor — 12 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Gender
- female
- Education
- University of California, Los Angeles (BA | History & English)
University of California, San Diego (MA | English & American literature)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD | U.S. History) - Occupations
- historian
professor
director, research center
journal editor - Organizations
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Five Colleges Women's Studies Research Center
University of Pittsburgh
Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth (founding coeditor)
Women's History Review (North American editor) - Awards and honors
- Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians
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Statistics
- Works
- 5
- Members
- 46
- Popularity
- #335,831
- Rating
- 3.5
- Reviews
- 2
- ISBNs
- 15
Early on in this slim book, Lovett argues that it's not only the famous with certain kinds of achievements who are deserving of autobiographies—that there is much to be gained from studying the lives and communities of those who are more representative of everyday experiences. I think that is certainly true! But it's undeniably true that Lovett has less surviving primary source material to work with when telling Pitman Hughes' story than she would have with other important second wave figures—it doesn't seem that the texts of her speeches have survived, for instance, unlike those of many of Steinem's. And perhaps because Pitman Hughes is still alive, Lovett doesn't delve too deeply into her personal life—this is mostly focused on Pitman Hughes' organising career.
Still, a worthwhile read.… (more)