Medieval History
This may seem an unorthodox request, but here goes. Last year, Oxford
University Press published my book, Making Women¹s Medicine Masculine: The
Rise of Male Authority in Pre-Modern Gynaecology. As is customary practice
(I take it), the press priced the book without consulting me: it costs a
whopping $120/£66. Even I wouldn¹t shell out this kind of money! Needless
to say, sales seem to be mostly going to libraries, and with the global
economy in its present state, I doubt any future sales are likely. They¹ve
done next to no marketing.
What¹s more surprising, however, is that so few people seem to have taken
advantage of the FREE (yes, you read that right) downloadable copy of the
complete Conclusion to the book available at Oxford¹s U.K. website:
http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199211494. (It is only available at
the U.K. website, not the U.S.?don¹t know why. I get no royalties from
downloads, so I¹m not trying to generate income.) The Conclusion is
actually quite substantial, and summarizes the wide-ranging implications of
my findings for post-medieval history. In short, it¹s potentially of
relevance to medievalists and non-medievalists alike. (Cf. Joan Scott¹s
recent call for historicizing the category of ³women²?a point just repeated
in a recent posting here on MEDFEM-L.)
I would greatly appreciate it if you could alert students and colleagues to
the availability of this portion of my work. Should web traffic increase,
that might finally signal to OUP that there is a market for this book and
that it would be worth considering a paperback (i.e., affordable!) edition.
Thanks for your help!
Monica Green
Professor of History
Arizona State University
http://www.asu.edu/clas/asuhistory/faculty/green.html
MEDFEM-L is an unmoderated forum for the discussion of feminist approaches
to medieval studies sponsored jointly by the Society for Medieval Feminist
Scholarship (SMFS) and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies (ACMRS).
Visit SMFS at http://hosted.lib.uiowa.edu/smfs/mff/index.html
Visit ACMRS at www.asu.edu/clas/acmrs/ Phone: (480) 965-5900 Fax: (480)
965-1681
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Medieval History
ON behalf of Monica Green
This may seem an unorthodox request, but here goes. Last year, Oxford
University Press published my book, Making Women¹s Medicine Masculine: The
Rise of Male Authority in Pre-Modern Gynaecology. As is customary practice
(I take it), the press priced the book without consulting me: it costs a
whopping $120/£66. Even I wouldn¹t shell out this kind of money! Needless
to say, sales seem to be mostly going to libraries, and with the global
economy in its present state, I doubt any future sales are likely. They¹ve
done next to no marketing.
What¹s more surprising, however, is that so few people seem to have taken
advantage of the FREE (yes, you read that right) downloadable copy of the
complete Conclusion to the book available at Oxford¹s U.K. website:
http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199211494. (It is only available at
the U.K. website, not the U.S.?don¹t know why. I get no royalties from
downloads, so I¹m not trying to generate income.) The Conclusion is
actually quite substantial, and summarizes the wide-ranging implications of
my findings for post-medieval history. In short, it¹s potentially of
relevance to medievalists and non-medievalists alike. (Cf. Joan Scott¹s
recent call for historicizing the category of ³women²?a point just repeated
in a recent posting here on MEDFEM-L.)
I would greatly appreciate it if you could alert students and colleagues to
the availability of this portion of my work. Should web traffic increase,
that might finally signal to OUP that there is a market for this book and
that it would be worth considering a paperback (i.e., affordable!) edition.
Thanks for your help!
Monica Green
Professor of History
Arizona State University
http://www.asu.edu/clas/asuhistory/faculty/green.html
MEDFEM-L is an unmoderated forum for the discussion of feminist approaches
to medieval studies sponsored jointly by the Society for Medieval Feminist
Scholarship (SMFS) and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies (ACMRS).
Visit SMFS at http://hosted.lib.uiowa.edu/smfs/mff/index.html
Visit ACMRS at www.asu.edu/clas/acmrs/ Phone: (480) 965-5900 Fax: (480)
965-1681
- Humanities Scholars Study Health, Disease In The Middle Ages
What do the 2012 summer Olympics and medieval scholarship have in common? For both, London will be the site of extraordinary achievements. Monica Green, professor in ASU?s School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, and Rachel Scott, assistant...
- The Society For Medieval Feminist Scholarship Is Happy To Announce The 2015 Foremother's Prize. Information And Application Are Attached.
Funded through the generous gift of royalties from the editors and authors of the Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe (Judith Bennett and Ruth Mazzo Karras, eds.), the grant provides $2,000 for a graduate student to undertake a significant...
- Smfs Best Article Cfp
The Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship announces the 2013 competition for the Best Article on Feminist Scholarship on the Middle Ages. The Prize alternates every other year between a published essay and a first book, in any area of medieval...
- Neh Summer Seminar: "health And Disease In The Middle Ages" (application Deadline: 1 March 2012)
NEH Summer Seminar: "Health and Disease in the Middle Ages" (application deadline: 1 March 2012) Applications are being sought for a five-week Seminar for College and University Teachers?"Health and Disease in the Middle Ages"?which is being held June...
- Cfp
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Call for Papers The 14th Annual ACMRS Conference Law and Sovereignty in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 14 ? 16 February in Tempe, Arizona ACMRS invites session and paper proposals for its annual interdisciplinary...