QUICK LINKS Today's News News releases ISU homepage NEWS RELEASE 07-05-02 Contacts: Jacquelyn Litt, Sociology, (515) 294-8879 Steve Sullivan, News Service, (515) 294-3720 ISU PROFESSOR EARNS HONOR FOR BOOK AMES, Iowa -- An Iowa State University professor's book on motherhood and medicine has been honored by the American Sociological Association (ASA). Jacquelyn Litt, associate professor of sociology, received an honorable mention in ASA's race, gender and class section book competition for "Medicalized Motherhood: Perspectives from the Lives of African American and Jewish Women." Litt interviewed Jewish and African American women who were mothers in the 1930s and 1940s in Philadelphia, when the medical profession was becoming a force in child health, replacing Old World remedies. -30- Ames, Iowa 50011, (515) 294-4111 Published by: University Relations, online@iastate.edu Copyright © 1995-2002, Iowa State University of Science and Technology. All rights reserved.