Valerie Yow
Biographic Data
| ID | 4869303 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valerie Yow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valerie |
| FAMILY NAME | Yow |
| SIGNATURE | YOW V |
| AFFILIATIONS | independent scholar |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Land Speaks
The Voice of the Past
When I think of an oral history book that set me on the course I have taken in my own work, it is the first edition of The Voice of the Past. There was something about this textbook—the feeling for...
Crossing the Line
Turn on the television or the radio. Pick up the newspaper or your news magazine. The United States has not declared a war, but most of the news is about the United States’s actions in war that day...
‘Listening in the Cold’
According to Baba
Irish Women at Work, 1930–1960
Oral History and Ageing
Essentials of Qualitative Interviewing
What every biographer should know
To research a contemporary subject, the biographer must have contacts with family members, and these interactions trigger old feelings — both the biographer's and the family members'. Conscious or unconscious, these feelings influence the kind of information given by family members and the way biographers use it, whether in writing or other media. Transference and countertransference in the research process are explored in this article in the con…
Oral History and Public Memories
Clio’s Southern Sisters
The War
The War: An Intimate History is the companion volume to the seven-part series presented by public television in 2007. I will review it as a book standing alone, however. Geoffrey Ward and Ken Burns...
The Oral History Reader
The Heart has Reasons
Momentous Events, Vivid Memories and Remembering Our Past
African-American Odyssey
(2001). African-American Odyssey: The Stewarts, 1853-1963. The Oral History Review: Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 139-142
Bernice Kelly Harris
Bernice Kelly Harris: A Good Life Was Writing. By Valerie Raleigh Yow. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 1999. Pp. xxii, 334. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2348-X.) Bernice Kelly was born in 1891 or 1894 (the text of this biography relies on the former date, but the copyright page lists the latter), and grew up on her father's substantial farm near Raleigh, North Carolina. She graduated from Meredith College in the state capital and taught…
Do I Like Them too Much
1997). “Do I Like Them too Much?”: Effects of the Oral History Interview on the Interviewer and Vice-Versa. The Oral History Review: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 55-79
Ethics and Interpersonal Relationships in Oral History Research
Additional informationNotes on contributorsValerie YowValerie Yow is the author of the recently published Recording Oral History: A Practical Guide for Social Scientists (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, 1994).
The History of Hera
Do I Like Them too Much
1997). “Do I Like Them too Much?”: Effects of the Oral History Interview on the Interviewer and Vice-Versa. The Oral History Review: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 55-79
Ethics and Interpersonal Relationships in Oral History Research
Additional informationNotes on contributorsValerie YowValerie Yow is the author of the recently published Recording Oral History: A Practical Guide for Social Scientists (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, 1994).
The History of Hera
Ethics and Interpersonal Relationships in Oral History Research
Additional informationNotes on contributorsValerie YowValerie Yow is the author of the recently published Recording Oral History: A Practical Guide for Social Scientists (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, 1994).
Do I Like Them too Much
1997). “Do I Like Them too Much?”: Effects of the Oral History Interview on the Interviewer and Vice-Versa. The Oral History Review: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 55-79
Momentous Events, Vivid Memories and Remembering Our Past
African-American Odyssey
(2001). African-American Odyssey: The Stewarts, 1853-1963. The Oral History Review: Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 139-142
Bernice Kelly Harris
Bernice Kelly Harris: A Good Life Was Writing. By Valerie Raleigh Yow. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 1999. Pp. xxii, 334. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2348-X.) Bernice Kelly was born in 1891 or 1894 (the text of this biography relies on the former date, but the copyright page lists the latter), and grew up on her father's substantial farm near Raleigh, North Carolina. She graduated from Meredith College in the state capital and taught…
The Heart has Reasons
The Oral History Reader
Clio’s Southern Sisters
The War
The War: An Intimate History is the companion volume to the seven-part series presented by public television in 2007. I will review it as a book standing alone, however. Geoffrey Ward and Ken Burns...
Oral History and Public Memories
What every biographer should know
To research a contemporary subject, the biographer must have contacts with family members, and these interactions trigger old feelings — both the biographer's and the family members'. Conscious or unconscious, these feelings influence the kind of information given by family members and the way biographers use it, whether in writing or other media. Transference and countertransference in the research process are explored in this article in the con…
Essentials of Qualitative Interviewing
Oral History and Ageing
Irish Women at Work, 1930–1960
‘Listening in the Cold’
According to Baba
Crossing the Line
Turn on the television or the radio. Pick up the newspaper or your news magazine. The United States has not declared a war, but most of the news is about the United States’s actions in war that day...
The Land Speaks
The Voice of the Past
When I think of an oral history book that set me on the course I have taken in my own work, it is the first edition of The Voice of the Past. There was something about this textbook—the feeling for...
History (14 works) · Oral history (9 works) · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works)