Laura Lovett

Laura Lovett is Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Community Activism (Beacon Press, 2021) and Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the United States, 1890-1930 (University of North Carolina Press, 2007). She is editor of Sex in Global History: Modern Sources and Perspectives (Cognella Publishing, 2018) and co-editor with Lori Rotskoff of When We Were Free to Be: Looking Back at a Children’s Classic and the Difference It Made (University of North Carolina Press, 2012).

Professor Lovett is currently co-editing a collection of essays on African American women leaders at the 1977 National Women’s Conference. ”It’s Our Movement Now”: Black Women’s Politics and the 1977 National Women’s Conference places Black women’s experience and leadership at the center of the history of the women’s movement.