She is an award winning mentor so I can see how there would be a market for this.
True enough about the ethical issues involving submissions to her journal.
Barbara Risman is the worst
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I'll save you all the money. Risman mentorship: America is a patriarchy, men are conniving and cruel, women are virtuous victims, gender is a social construction, capitalism is evil. You were just spared a $1500 expense. You are welcome. Now blabber on about this, citing the usual suspects, and enjoy a prestigious Gender and Society publication. Are we surprised that people with little more than vague tropes to offer are, in reality, just trying to grab cash?
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Incoming editor for Gender and Society obviously advertising pay-to-play through a testimonial at the top of her writing-retreat website:
"At Risman’s Writing Retreat, I was able to devote undivided attention to a paper that I’ve been working on for a while. It had been rejected by two journals. My one-on-one time with Barbara was invaluable. Barbara saw the paper in ways I could not.. I spent the next day and half fundamentally revising the paper, and I submitted it to another journal. Six weeks later, the paper was accepted for publication with rave reviews. It was accepted with no revisions. That’s a first!"
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^ wise one, if you have other examples, post them here! Given just how important something like a top-tier pub can be for peoples' careers, it is imperative that we try to ensure, as much as possible, that editors don't enrich themselves through others' desperation.
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Nothing new here, just the same good old girl system that has predominated sociology for some time. If the numbers were reversed -- if 70% of sociology faculty were men -- the howls of protest would be heard around the world. But because it's men being marginalized, who cares? Men are evil, horrible oppressors of virtuous female victyms, so they deserve whatever reprobation we can heap upon them. This is doubly true for male sociologists, you know, the real enemy of womyn and POC. Risman should win an award for female entrepreneurship.