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Modifications or comments are much appreciated. Please excuse the somewhat awkward third person of some of this
In particular the project is primarily about, but not totaly confined to, the provenance of these issues on Cybermind, and to analysis of events which have occured on list. A series editor has expressed interest in the idea, but publication is not guarranteed.
People are reminded that the series description is:
"This new series is a forum for exploring cultural articulations of gender relations in modern society. The series publishes searching and challenging work in current gender studies combining an interdisciplinary approach with a rigorous critique of various cultural media and their modes of production and consumption. Publications interrogate the cultural forms which articulate, legitimise, construct, contest or transform gender configurations in the modern age".The people having ultimate responsibility for the selection and presentation of contents shall be Jon Marshall (JM) and the publisher.
Copies of the work shall be freely available to members of Cybermind via the web until a date decided by the publisher, and announced in advance. People may at any time make comments upon the materials on this web site. Please submit these comments either to Cybermind, or to JM.
A deadline for withdrawl from the project shall be announced in advance. Before this deadline people have the right to withdraw their texts from the publication for any reason. If a person wishes to withdraw their text they should keep emailing JM or the list, until they receive an acknowledgment from JM. This is to prevent the arising of cases in which a person attempted to withdraw a text, but the email never arrived.
Submissions may in general be of two types.
1) Formal submissions made specifically to JM, which will be texts of *any* length up to 6,000 words. Editorial preference is for many shorter sumbissions, to give the widest range of voices. Submissions of a page or two will be especially welcome. People may make more than one submission. It is possible texts longer than 6,000 words may be accepted in special circumstances.
All formal submissions will be subject to standard editorial intervention by JM *in consultation* with the author. These interventions may include: requests for rewrite, request for more information, suggestions for abridgement, requests for clarification, stylistic emendation, and in the last resort possibly refusal etc.. No formal submission will be published without the author's permission (as described above). Anonymous submissions while not specifically solicited may be accepted.
The deadline for formal submissions shall be June 30th 2001.
2) Incidental submissions: in which people have written to Cybermind on the subject and are either quoted by others, or are requested to allow the formal publication of the text. Please note anyone participating on CM always has the possibility of their words being quoted by someone else (subject to 'fair usuage') , *unless* they specifically refuse this permission or ask to approve such usage.
People, quoting others from the list should, in the first instance, acknowlege the original author by their first name (or by their psuedonym) and by the date of the mail, unless otherwise instructed.
All effort will be made to contact authors to gain permission, however if a person has changed email addresses and proves uncontactable, then the absence of objection to the use of their words on the web site will be considered to constitute permission. People, who submit, or who are quoted, can also choose pseudonyms should they require, up until the deadline. Please contact JM.
All texts have the possibility of being subject to commentary in the book, either by JM or by other participants. Indeed part of the aim of the project is to give some idea of the dynamics of argument. Texts as well as being analyses, also become 'ethnographic artefacts' which can be analysed. Authors are entitled to respond to these comments, and occasionally may wish to alter their original texts in response - though in some respects I would prefer to leave these corrections perceptible. Acknowledgement of the critques which brought about these alterations should also be made.
Occasionally people may wish to criticize other list members for their actions in the past. In general I would prefer this be done with a degree of circumspection, and preferably the work in which the criticism is made should be presented to JM before being made to the list. Conflict is interesting, but I do not wish the book to cause severe conflict.
I will be writing, at least, the intro, a chapter, some commentary and the conclusion, hence my work might take up a relatively disproportionate amount of space. However, it is also hoped that people will comment on these texts. I don't claim infallibility.
All people who make accepted formal submissions, and those who have made frequent incidental submissions, will be asked if they wish to contribute a small autobiography of less than 200 words, to give some idea of the cast of the book. This is not compulsory.
Bibliographic form. All references to published texts should be by author, date and page number. The form should be (Sondheim 1996: 133). Materials found on the web should be indicated by date and section if possible, ie (Sondheim (ongoing): [section number]). A bibliography should be attached to the article if necessary, giving URLs when needed. Final published bibliographic form may differ from this, but uniformity is of great help.
Issues of 'payment' and so on to be resolved later (but before the deadline) as described in the proposal - however this will not be a money making project.
In the event of the current propsective publisher rejecting the project, it is proposed that we seek a new publisher.