Laura L. Lovett
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| Laura L. Lovett | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1963 (age 61–62) |
| 🎓 Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| 💼 Occupation | Professor |
| Known for | Women's History, History of Childhood and Youth |
Laura L. Lovett is an American historian, and Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, where she is also the Director of the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program.
Life[edit]
Lovett graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1985 with degrees in English Literature and History, and from University of California, San Diego with a Master's degree in English and American Literature. She earned her PhD at University of California, Berkeley in 1998, where Mary P. Ryan was her advisor.
Lovett studied agrarianism and reform among women in late 19th century and early 20th century for her disseratation.[1]
Lovett's scholarship addresses different dimensions of women's political action in the twentieth century. This broad interest has been manifested most recently in a set of historical studies of the transformative power of Black women's activism in the 1960s and 1970s at the local, national, and transnational level. Her 2021 book, With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Community Activism, is a biography of Dorothy Pitman Hughes, an influential activist and organizer in New York City beginning in the 1960s.[2][3] Although she is best known now for speaking with Gloria Steinem, Hughes created a community child care center that became a model for community based organizing in the 1970s, among many other causes that she has championed.[4][3]
Lovett's earlier work concerned the histories of eugenics, pronatalism, and ideals of American Home and Family. Lovett extended her analysis of the impact of positive eugenics in the United States by tracing the influence of the eugenics movement on U.S. housing practices involving redlining and suburban development.
Lovett is also the founding co-editor of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. In 2021, she co-edited with Lori Rotskoff a collection of essays appraising the impact of the children's book, record, and TV show, Free to Be… You and Me. This set of essays fetures essays from the book's creators, the children who grew up with it; historians and sociologists of childhood; and social activists, cultural critics, and producers of children's media today.
She was a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts,[5] Dartmouth College, and the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. She has been a Fellow at the Yale University Agrarian Studies Program, Director of the Five College Women's Studies Research Center, and Secretary of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.
Lovett has been a fellowship committe member of the American Historical Association who spoke out against government censorship of historical debate.[5]
Publications[edit]
- With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Community Activism. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. 2021. ISBN 978-080700889-8. Search this book on
- Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the United States, 1890-1930. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-8078-5803-5. Search this book on
- Laura L. Lovett; Lori Rotskoff, eds. (2012). When We Were Free to Be: Looking Back at a Children's Classic and the Difference It Made. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-918393-18-0. Search this book on
- Laura L. Lovett; Rachel Jessica Daniel; Kelly N. Giles, eds. (2022). "It's Our Movement Now": Black Women's Politics and the 1977 National Women's Conference. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. ISBN 9780813069487. Search this book on
- “Eugenic Housing: Redlining, Reproductive Regulation, and Suburban Development in the United States,” Women's Studies Quarterly 48 (2020), 76-83.
- “The Popeye Principle: Selling Child Health in the First Nutrition Crisis,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 30 (2005) 803-838.
- "'African and Cherokee By Choice': Race and Resistance Under Legalized Segregation," American Indian Quarterly 22 (1998), 203-229.
Editor[edit]
- Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005–2013
References[edit]
- ↑ "Parkerville History Subject of Grant". Council Grove Republican. 1995-07-06. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
- ↑ With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Community Activism. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. 2021. ISBN 978-080700889-8. Search this book on
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Noveck, Jocelyn (2022-12-12). "Pioneering Black Feminist". The Miami Herald. pp. A8. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
- ↑ Baker, Carrie N. (September 9, 2021). "The Story of Iconic Feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes: "With Her Fist Raised"". Ms. magazine.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Russia". Daily Hampshire Gazette. 2009-07-13. p. 8. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
Further reading[edit]
- Merzbach, Scott (2021-10-25). "Amherst: Writers Walk spotlights literary legacy". Daily Hampshire Gazette. pp. A3.
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