<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<title></title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
<font size="+1">Just a heads-up regarding the APA. If this was
presented as an ethics complaint, it is going to be handled under very
strict confidentiality rules, which means that Jim May is not gong to
be able to tell you anything about it until the Ethics Subcommittee
rules on it (and perhaps not even then, if the committee decides that
its ruling should not be made public). However, what the LCC can do is
help the complainant (I think somebody mentioned that Tom Hubbard sent
the letter to the APA) compile documents to make the case for an
ethics violation. The more detailed and documented the case is, the
more likely the committee will agree to hear the case and make a fair
ruling. Best, Barbara</font><br>
<br>
kmilnor wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:FFB2CC60-5DFE-448F-94C6-ED6128D5E45A@barnard.edu"
type="cite">Thanks, Kirk. I have not heard from the press, and may
well not if they are intending to maintain their silence on why they
cancelled the issue. I think, though, we need to give them a few days.
I also would like to wait a bit to hear what, if anything, the powers
that are in the APA are going to do. Obviously, we can do something
else/in addition to what they do, but I do feel like they might have
more clout than we do, and I'd like to present a united front with them
if possible.
<br>
<br>
best,
<br>
<br>
klm
<br>
<br>
On Jun 5, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Kirk Ormand wrote:
<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">I've written Beert Verstaete (one of the
editors of the special volume) and asked him to send me the full text
of the e-mail from Kathryn Rutz (editor at Taylor & Francis)
declining the issue. Here, evidently, is the e-mail in full:
<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Dear Dr DeCecco and Dr Verstraete:
<br>
<br>
After review of the manuscripts of your guest edited special issue
<br>
Sexual Intimacy between Adult and Adolescent Males, which was sent to
us
<br>
by Jay Harcourt as intended for publication in the Journal of
<br>
Homosexuality 56 (5/6), a decision has been made not to publish this
<br>
material. We appreciate the opportunity to consider the articles for
<br>
publication, but choose not to proceed.
<br>
<br>
We are grateful to have had the chance to look at this work, and wish
<br>
you the very best.
<br>
<br>
Sincerely,
<br>
<br>
Kathy
<br>
Kathryn Rutz
<br>
Acquisitions Editor, Behavioral Science and Social Work
<br>
Taylor and Francis Group
<br>
325 Chestnut Street, Suite 800
<br>
Philadelphia, PA 19106
<br>
Tel: 607-222-0169
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Kathryn.rutz@taylorandfrancis.com">Kathryn.rutz@taylorandfrancis.com</a>
<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
Not much to go on there.
<br>
<br>
Prof. Verstaete goes on to describe several phone conversations with
Ms. Rutz as follows:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">As I mentioned in my letter to the ALA,
Rutz would not disclose the
<br>
specific reason(s) for the refusal to publish, simply saying in a
<br>
subsequent e-mail that T&F had exercised their "judgment." However,
in
<br>
the one telephone conversation I had with her, she did say that the
<br>
management of T&F was aware of the controversy created in the early
Fall
<br>
of 2005 by the special issue of the JofH entitled, Same-Sex Desire and
<br>
Love in Greco-Roman Antiquity and in the Classical Tradition of the
West
<br>
(which was eventually published by the Haworth Press, albeit with Bruce
<br>
Rind's article removed), and that one could "infer" from this that they
<br>
were concerned about a repetition of the controversy.
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
I'm not all that comfortable (personally) leading a charge on the basis
of an inference authorized by hearsay.
<br>
<br>
Kristina has, I believe, written Ms. Rutz and asked for clarification;
I take it she hasn't heard back yet. It would be good to be in full
command of the facts before LCC takes any action.
<br>
<br>
I should also say that Andrew Lear's comments (earlier to this list)
are well-taken. We have little leverage in a case like this. While my
immediate instinct, if we are convinced that the editorial decision was
based on homophobia, is that we should bring financial pressure to bear
on Taylor and Francis (i.e. by a boycott of Routledge), this would
probably have unintended effects, and not necessarily good ones. Do we
want T&F to drop Routledge's line of studies of ancient sexuality?
Surely not. But this is one possible result of such action.
<br>
<br>
Much to consider here.
<br>
<br>
Kirk
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
_______________________________________________
<br>
members mailing list
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:members@lambdacc.org">members@lambdacc.org</a>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lambdacc.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lambdacc.org">http://lambdacc.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lambdacc.org</a>
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<br>
_______________________________________________
<br>
members mailing list
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:members@lambdacc.org">members@lambdacc.org</a>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lambdacc.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lambdacc.org">http://lambdacc.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lambdacc.org</a>
<br>
<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Barbara F. McManus, Professor of Classics Emerita
The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY 10805
Co-Director, The VRoma Project
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bmcman@optonline.net"><bmcman@optonline.net></a> or <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bmcmanus@cnr.edu"><bmcmanus@cnr.edu></a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www2.cnr.edu/home/bmcmanus/">http://www2.cnr.edu/home/bmcmanus/</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/">http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/</a>
</pre>
</body>
</html>