Joel Meyerowitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3949925 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joel Meyerowitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joel |
| FAMILY NAME | Meyerowitz |
| SIGNATURE | MEYEROWITZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How Common Culture Shapes the Separate Lives
Journal Article "How Common Culture Shapes the Separate Lives": Sexuality, Race, and Mid-Twentieth-Century Social Constructionist Thought Get access Joanne Meyerowitz Joanne Meyerowitz Joanne Meyerowitz is a professor of history and American studies at Yale University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 96, Issue 4, March 2010, Pages 1057–1084, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahis…
Transforming Sex
Christine Jorgensen entered the public eye in December 1952, via the New York Daily News. The front-page headline read, “Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty: Operations Transform Bronx Youth,” and the story inside told of her medical treatments in Denmark and her “sex-conversion” from man to woman (1). The initial publicity quickly escalated into media madness. Over the next several months, Jorgensen appeared in hundreds of newspaper and magazine article…
History's Ethical Crisis
In the past few years, public accounts of misconduct by historians have suggested that we may have an ethical crisis in our profession. For those readers who missed the multiple allegations of lies told, passages plagiarized, and evidence misrepresented, the bare-bones outlines of the most prominent cases are as follows. In spring 2001, the press reported that the historian Joseph J. Ellis had fabricated stories during classroom lectures at Mount…
Subaltern History Makers and Alternative Constructions of the Past
Despite numerous studies of historiography, collective memory, and amateur history, U.S. historians have only begun to investigate how members of subordinated groups consciously constructed alternative popular versions of the past. In this round table, we bring together two articles that address such history-making projects. In “Meta Warrick's 1907 ‘Negro Tableaux’ and (Re)Presenting African American Historical Memory,” W. Fitzhugh Brundage looks…
History and September 11
On September 12, 2001, a New York Times editorial described the horrific attacks of the previous day as “one of those moments in which history splits, and we define the world as ‘before’ and ‘after.’”1 Yet as all of us know, history never rips in two. “Before” and “after” are never entirely severed, even in the moments of greatest historical rupture. The discontinuities of the past always remain within the whole cloth of the longue durée. As hist…
Elections, Conflict, and Democracy
Journal Article Elections, Conflict, and Democracy: An Introduction Get access Joanne Meyerowitz Joanne Meyerowitz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Page 407, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/88.2.407 Published: 01 September 2001
Bystander
Bystander
How Common Culture Shapes the Separate Lives
Journal Article "How Common Culture Shapes the Separate Lives": Sexuality, Race, and Mid-Twentieth-Century Social Constructionist Thought Get access Joanne Meyerowitz Joanne Meyerowitz Joanne Meyerowitz is a professor of history and American studies at Yale University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 96, Issue 4, March 2010, Pages 1057–1084, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahis…
Transforming Sex
Christine Jorgensen entered the public eye in December 1952, via the New York Daily News. The front-page headline read, “Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty: Operations Transform Bronx Youth,” and the story inside told of her medical treatments in Denmark and her “sex-conversion” from man to woman (1). The initial publicity quickly escalated into media madness. Over the next several months, Jorgensen appeared in hundreds of newspaper and magazine article…
Bystander
Bystander
Elections, Conflict, and Democracy
Journal Article Elections, Conflict, and Democracy: An Introduction Get access Joanne Meyerowitz Joanne Meyerowitz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Page 407, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/88.2.407 Published: 01 September 2001
History and September 11
On September 12, 2001, a New York Times editorial described the horrific attacks of the previous day as “one of those moments in which history splits, and we define the world as ‘before’ and ‘after.’”1 Yet as all of us know, history never rips in two. “Before” and “after” are never entirely severed, even in the moments of greatest historical rupture. The discontinuities of the past always remain within the whole cloth of the longue durée. As hist…
Subaltern History Makers and Alternative Constructions of the Past
Despite numerous studies of historiography, collective memory, and amateur history, U.S. historians have only begun to investigate how members of subordinated groups consciously constructed alternative popular versions of the past. In this round table, we bring together two articles that address such history-making projects. In “Meta Warrick's 1907 ‘Negro Tableaux’ and (Re)Presenting African American Historical Memory,” W. Fitzhugh Brundage looks…
History's Ethical Crisis
In the past few years, public accounts of misconduct by historians have suggested that we may have an ethical crisis in our profession. For those readers who missed the multiple allegations of lies told, passages plagiarized, and evidence misrepresented, the bare-bones outlines of the most prominent cases are as follows. In spring 2001, the press reported that the historian Joseph J. Ellis had fabricated stories during classroom lectures at Mount…
Transforming Sex
Christine Jorgensen entered the public eye in December 1952, via the New York Daily News. The front-page headline read, “Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty: Operations Transform Bronx Youth,” and the story inside told of her medical treatments in Denmark and her “sex-conversion” from man to woman (1). The initial publicity quickly escalated into media madness. Over the next several months, Jorgensen appeared in hundreds of newspaper and magazine article…
How Common Culture Shapes the Separate Lives
Journal Article "How Common Culture Shapes the Separate Lives": Sexuality, Race, and Mid-Twentieth-Century Social Constructionist Thought Get access Joanne Meyerowitz Joanne Meyerowitz Joanne Meyerowitz is a professor of history and American studies at Yale University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 96, Issue 4, March 2010, Pages 1057–1084, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahis…
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