Feminist Studies published a new issue online today: “Re-inventing Mothers: A Special Issue.” According to the editors, “Throughout this issue of Feminist Studies, with its attention chiefly on new reproductive technologies and changing patterns of motherhood, differences between women according to nationality, ‘race’/ethnicity, and social class clearly structure women’s life trajectories.” The issue features five new scholarly articles, as well as fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, an art essay, and a review essay. Published in print…
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Minor Tweaks, Major Payoffs: The Problems and Promise of Situationism in Moral Philosophy, by Hagop Sarkissian (Baruch College, CUNY) was published in Philosopher’s Imprint today. According to the author, Moral philosophers of late have been examining the implications of experimental social psychology for ethics. The focus of attention has been on situationism—the thesis that we routinely underestimate the extent to which minor situational variables influence morally significant behavior. Situationism has been seen as a threat…
The CIC issued a final report on open access practices and attitudes at CIC universities. The scan involved over 220 librarians and over 2000 faculty. The University of Michigan participated in the environmental scan. While not comprehensive, the report provides insight about attitudes about open access in different disciplines and faculty practices and attitudes.
Alix Keener joined the staff of the Scholarly Publishing Office half-time on Monday, June 7th, complementing her existing half-time appointment at the University of Michigan Press. Alix works as a digital project assistant at SPO with a primary focus on helping to manage SPO’s ongoing work in support of Humanities E-Book. The Text Creation Partnership, a component of MPublishing that has a historical link to SPO and whose staff has often been based at SPO,…
The Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library is pleased to announce the publication of Successful Strategic Deception: A Case Study, a digital publication featuring a new analysis of the controversial case against Alger Hiss, a U.S. State Department official suspected of spying for the Soviet Union, and ultimately convicted of perjury in 1950. Hiss had been a rising star in the liberal foreign policy establishment, accompanying President Roosevelt to Yalta, hand-delivering the…