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Joanne Meyerowitz

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Joanne Meyerowitz

Profile

Gender
Female
Nationality
United States
Languages
English

Career

Occupations
historian, author, professor, magazine editor
Active Years
1988-2024
Affiliations
Indiana University, University of Cincinnati, Yale University, Journal of American History, Kinsey Institute

Education

University of Chicago
Country: United States
Stanford University
Country: United States

Awards

Stonewall Book Awards (Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award)
2003
Work: How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States
Organization: American Library Association
Result: winner
Guggenheim Fellowship
Organization: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result: fellow
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
Organization: National Endowment for the Humanities
Result: fellow
Social Science Research Council fellowship
Organization: Social Science Research Council
Result: fellow

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930

1988 History

A history of independent wage-earning women in Chicago from 1880 to 1930.

women's historylabor history

Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960

1994 History

Edited volume on women and gender in postwar America.

genderpostwar history

How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States

2002 History

A history of transsexuality in the United States.

transsexualitysexuality history

History and September 11th

2003 History

History related to September 11th.

contemporary history

Bibliography

  • Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930 (1988)
  • Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960 (1994)
  • How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States (2002)
  • History and September 11th (2003)

Legacy

American historian specializing in gender, sexuality, and women's history, with numerous awards, professor at Yale University.

Trivia

  • Classified as American LGBTQ writer
  • American women historian