Hmm, looks like I've been published

[robinturner]

Today I received an e-mail from a colleague asking the following:

We are reading your article \"male logic and \"women\'s intuition\" taken from A Meeting of Minds in our English 112 class and I have a question: Who was your intended audience when you wrote this article?

I didn't actually think much about my audience when I wrote this piece; it was one of the first things I wrote for my website and I was really just blowing off steam. What interested me was that although the publishers had written to me some time ago asking for permission to reprint the article, they didn't bother to tell me when they published it (despite the fact that a condition of my permission was the usual complimentary copies).

On the other hand, it's nice to appear in an anthology alongside Deborah Tannen, Susan B. Anthony, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King!

Comments

[bram.livejournal.com]

Go solri!

Even if--I hope you don't mind--I think I'll skip your last "meme", though I may post it with alterations on my own journal.

[cibetky.livejournal.com]

I think I'll read it again as well. Three years is a long long time... :-)

[cibetky.livejournal.com]

I did.

Yeah, it just occures to me, a funny thing, I often have hard time explaining (even to myself) that the reason I'm not into maths and (formal) logic is not because I see them as inherently masculine. :-)

[aguirre.livejournal.com]

Hobknobbing with the bigwigs eh?

Well good for you man, congrats. Where might I find one of these publications?

[solri.livejournal.com]

It's a big anthology puıblished by Longman, designed for teaching rhetoric/composition - you should be able to find it in university bookshops.
The original article is at neptune.spaceports.com/~words/malelogic.html (http://neptune.spaceports.com/~words/malelogic.html)

[aguirre.livejournal.com]

thanks for the link. It's a good read.

I enjoy reading about writings concerning the interaction of the sexes. My first philosophy book was Woman and the History of Philosophy by Nancy Tuana. She is pretty popular at the UofOregon.

[molkovia04.livejournal.com]

...well, it seems you're keeping good company! Congratulations.

[solri.livejournal.com]

The text is a collection of both academic and non-academic work, so presumably the person who e-mailed me wanted to know if I was aiming at an academic audience or a popular one. It would be relevant to his class, since we often draw attention to intended audience in this kind of course.

"Relevant to his class" - whoo, that really brings it home. In classrooms throughout the world, students are having to read something I wrote late one night for the hell of it, are writing essays about it, and are receiving grades for those essays. Jeeez.

[solri.livejournal.com]

What would go in the follow-up?

[solri.livejournal.com]

No, I didn't feel at all insulted. Criticism is good.