Or maybe, I am well-acquainted with the 'white slavery' trope that first flowered in the early C20th and went on being resorted to by journalists looking for a sensational story into, I think, at least the 1950s -
An ordinary young woman going about her business, though this was usually about pleasure such as shopping or going to the movies, was ( Read more... )

No, really, if you return to me a copy-edited article for my attention, and mention that you have made changes to the text (as well as changing the title to one that I think is misleading), please to be sending it to me with your changes tracked and marked up.
For if you are going to insult my ability to write English prose, I think I should be ( Read more... )

If you, being the editor of a well-reputed historical journal in its field, send me an article to referee on [study by a particular person] and [legislative intervention] that does not seem to know (apart from one passing reference to a pioneer study in the field and cite to one article) that the person, the text and the intervention have generated ( Read more... )

Okay, it does look as though it is Well, Farewell Then, Old Email Server, two years and some months after my quondam ISP claimed that it was turning up its toes (and then, like 24 hours before the stated cut-off date, said 'Hey! We cut a deal and you can continue under following terms': i.e. well after anyone with a modicum of sense would have ( Read more... )

Finally, finally, finally, got the Very Overdue Review off to the Reviews Editor of Journal in Question.

Okay, months late, but still DONE.

This sort of thing is disproportionate in the weight it places.

Even if reviews for scholarly journals which will then not publish them for months or even years* anyway are fairly low down on the priority scale ( Read more... )

Interesting piece on current issues in scholarly journal publishing, especially problems with the peer review process as currently practised, but, ahem, do you want to reconsider this sentence?

[P]eer review, although the Rosetta Stone of the tenure and promotion process, is deeply flawed*

Let's just say, were I to be sent a piece that invoked the ( Read more... )