Abstract
As historians, our work becomes both easier and more difficult when we select topics in which we are personally involved, or causes about which we care passionately. A primer for activist scholars, this essay offers eight insights for those who seek to contemplate, and question, scholarly convention rather than uncritically uphold it, drawing on the author’s experience as a health activist and her writing on the history of fitness. This essay is part of a PHR forum on the theme of “Personal Reflections on Feminist Historical Methods,” with additional essays by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Y. Yvon Wang, and Natalie Marine-Street. The forum is part of a larger PHR special issue, Feminist Histories.
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