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Calling All Librarians! We want to hear from you!

17 October 2016 Uncategorized

Because you are such a valued part of the scholarly community, we have prepared a brief survey that will allow you to let us know how we can best be of service to you and your library patrons. Don’t hold back! We want to know as much as we can about your experiences with us […]

Pluralism and Feminist Bioethics

3 October 2016 Contributor Blog

Written by IJFAB Editor, Robyn Bluhm. This is the third in a series of blog posts from the new editors of IJFAB, and I’ve chosen to write about the wide range of disciplines and methods upon which feminist bioethicists draw. There are two reasons for my choice: first, I think it complements the post of […]

Celebrating Peer Review Week 2016!

22 September 2016 Uncategorized

It’s Peer Review Week 2016! With this year’s theme being “Recognition for Review,” we at UTP Journals want to express our sincere thanks to peer reviewers for all of their efforts and contributions. Peer review is essential to scholarly communication, and we greatly appreciate our peer reviewers for continuously offering their time, expertise, and dedication […]

Discoverable Keywords of the New Modernist Studies

7 September 2016 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, James Gifford Modernism: Keywords is one of those books that calls out for reviewers. I should know. I’ve been called out to review it three times… But part of what makes this a productive project is that I could think of three different pathways into (and out of) the book without […]

IJFAB and the Future of Feminist Bioethics: Predictions and Disclaimers

2 September 2016 Contributor Blog

Written by IJFAB Editor, Jamie Lindemann Nelson. The World Congress of Bioethics, home to the biennial meeting of IJFAB’s sponsoring organization, the International Network of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, met in Edinburgh this past June. A highlight of the Congress for me was a reception during which the first ten years of the journal were […]

Transforming the Past to Change the Present–Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s An Octoroon

25 August 2016 Uncategorized

Written by guest blogger, Verna A. Foster A happy combination of circumstances led me to write about An Octoroon. I have been working on contemporary dramatic adaptations, especially plays that adapt other plays, for some years. I also take a perhaps critically unfashionable pleasure in nineteenth-century melodrama. So I was excited to read a couple […]

Publishing Feminist Bioethics and IJFAB: Looking Back, Looking Forward

1 August 2016 Editor Spotlight

With this post, we introduce a series by the new editors of IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics addressing issues of importance to feminist bioethicists around the world. We hope to pique your interest and that you’ll participate in the discussion by lending your voice to it. This month’s contribution comes from Jackie […]

Paradoxes, Politics, and Calculated Silence

22 July 2016 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Patrick Lacroix Immigration and immigrant integration made a sudden and unexpected eruption into Canada’s federal election in 2015. The Conservative Party was determined to prevent Muslim women from wearing the niqab at citizenship ceremonies. The New Democratic Party’s commitment to civic nationalism and its openness on this issue may have cost it […]

Graduate School, Academic Writing, and Identities Past and Future

18 July 2016 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Scott Johnston As I discovered in graduate school, and while researching the article I wrote for the CJH called “Boy Scouts and the British World: Autonomy within an Imperial Institution, 1908-1936,” identity is a curious thing. It is flexible beyond all logical reasoning, even allowing humans to simultaneously hold multiple contradictory beliefs. […]

Medical History on the Move

15 July 2016 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Lucas Richert The most recent issue of Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin canadien d’histoire de la médecine is now available and it’s thrilling times for the new editors, Erika Dyck and Kenton Kroker. Tackling such engaging and topical subjects as transfusions in France, eugenics, HIV/AIDS in Vancouver, and Thalidomide, among others, the journal […]

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