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Four IUP books win Independent Publisher Book Awards

We are pleased to announced that four of our books have won 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY)!

James H. Madison won Gold for his book, Hoosiers, in the Great Lakes nonfiction category.

In addition, the following books all received Silver in their respective categories:

Biography: Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and the Religion of Biologic Living by Brian C. Wilson

Health/Medicine/Nutrition: Making Sense of Intersex by Ellen K. Feder

World History: The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police by Anonymous members of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police. Translated and edited by Samuel Schalkowsky

The IPPY Awards, launched in 1996, are designed to bring increased recognition to the deserving but often unsung titles published by independent authors and publishers. Since the inaugural contest nearly 5,000 books have received IPPY Awards.

The 19th annual IPPY Awards will spotlight the year's best independently published books at a gala celebration on today during the annual BookExpo America publishing convention in New York.

Two IUP authors to appear at Politics and Prose this weekend

Politics and Prose will host two events with IUP authors this Saturday and Sunday at its bookstore in Washington, D.C.

The first event features author Ellen Feder. She will discuss and sign copies of her book Making Sense of Intersex: Changing Ethical Perspectives in Biomedicine June 7 at 1 p.m.

In her thought-provoking look at a culture that often fails to recognize a third option, Feder re-examines the role of bioethics in cases where medical intervention to “normalize” gender frequently does more harm than good. For more information about the book, visit our website or listen to a podcast with the author.

The following day at 1 p.m., Jeffrey Veidlinger will discuss and sign copies of his book In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine.

The recollections of some 400 returnees in Ukraine provide the basis for Veidlinger’s reappraisal of the traditional narrative of 20th-century Jewish history. These elderly Yiddish speakers relate their memories of Jewish life in the prewar shtetl, their stories of survival during the Holocaust, and their experiences living as Jews under Communism. Learn more about the book on our website or in this book trailer.

Both author events are free and open to the public. Visit the Politics and Prose website for more details.

Generations: Imagining the Future to Promote Health and Justice

IJFAB (International Journal of Feminist Approached to Bioethics) 7.1 is based on papers from the Eighth International Congress of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB), held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in June 2012. The biennial congress is now solidly established as a key feature of the bioethics landscape, and is an important factor in the continuing growth of feminist bioethics. Both the theme of the congress, Generations: Imagining the Future to Promote Health and Justice, and that open tradition of FAB gatherings are reflected in the writing presented here. The papers take the reader through wide-ranging discussions of reproduction and fertility, the medicalization of experiences such as aging and disorientation, agency and autonomy, and intergenerational responsibilities and vulnerabilities. Some are based on empirical material, while others take a more purely theoretical approach; some are written from within a familiar tradition of philosophical debate, while others are more avowedly political. The selection of papers highlights the rich variety of disciplines, geographies, methodologies, and conceptual styles that currently flourish within the house of feminist bioethics.

The commentaries of FAB founders, Becky Holmes and Anne Donchin are reproduced in this issue. These reflections on FAB’s past and its future added a valuable extra resonance to the congress theme of “generations,” in both senses of the word: they prompted the kind of discussion and dialogue for which FAB congresses are known, and through which the thinking and activism of one generation of feminist bioethicists is enriched and developed—and challenged—by the next.

Excerpted from the introduction by Jackie Leach Scully. 

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Disorientation and the medicalization of struggle, Ami Harbin

Podcast: Ellen Feder discusses Making Sense of Intersex

On this episode of the IU Press podcast, Ellen K. Feder discusses her book Making Sense of Intersex. Proposing a philosophical framework for the treatment of children with intersex conditions—one that acknowledges the intertwined identities of parents, children, and their doctors—Feder presents a persuasive moral argument for collective responsibility to these children and their families.

Ellen Feder to give lecture on intersex ethics at American University

Ellen K. Feder will present a lecture on "Normalizing Atypical Sex Anatomies: A Question of Ethics or Culture?" as part of American University's 2013-14 Celebration of College Research series. The event will take place February 26 from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Butler Board Room on the American University campus in Washington, DC.

Feder is the author of an upcoming book on this topic entitled Making Sense of Interesex, which will be released in April. Proposing a philosophical framework for the treatment of children with intersex conditions—one that acknowledges the intertwined identities of parents, children, and their doctors—Feder presents a persuasive moral argument for collective responsibility to these children and their families. Learn more about the book on our website.

Book review: Love in the Time of AIDS

"The ethnography is at its strongest and most insightful when Hunter explores the intricacies of love and gender through detailed ethnography such as the inclusion of love letters and text messages and families’ reactions and individuals to death and dying in the context of HIV/AIDS." —American Ethnologist

Book review: The Faces of Intellectual Disability

"Carlson’s book is a significant addition to the welcome burgeoning of philosophical literature about disability generally and intellectual disability specifically." —Social Theory and Practice

Book reviews: The Faces of Intellectual Disability

"Carlson's work is careful, innovative, and visionary. . . . [She] uses philosophical and historical tools to excavate and reveal how much is still in the way of treating people with intellectual disabilities as subjects rather than objects, to treat all of us as human." —Disability Studies Quarterly

"Carlson’s Foucauldian analysis of intellectual disability is a sophisticated addition
to an area of disability studies and philosophy of disability that has received little critical attention." —Hypatia

Book review: Love in the Time of AIDS

"This remarkable, readable book uses ethnography and historical analysis to offer a fresh look at the HIV and AIDS pandemic in South Africa. [Love in the Time of AIDS] is rich in ethnographic detail, especially life stories, and very convincing in its analysis... [A]n outstanding monograph from an important new scholar of Southern Africa." —The International Journal of African Historical Studies

Appalachian State University to host book launch for Feminist Disability Studies

Appalachian State University will host a book launch Oct. 25 to celebrate the release of Professor Kim Q. Hall's new book, Feminist Disability Studies. This event, which is free and open to the public, includes a talk by Dr. Ann Fox titled "Loving the Monsters: "Performing Feminist Disability Studies".

The book launch begins at 6:00 p.m. in Information Commons Room 421 in the Belk Library with a reception to follow. For more information, visit Appalachian State University's website.