A journal has apologised after a female academic was repeatedly referred to as a “lady author” in a review of her first book.
Joanne Paul, lecturer in early modern history at 바카라사이트 University of Sussex, said that she was shocked by 바카라사이트 use of 바카라사이트 description in of her book, Thomas More, by Peter Milward, a recently deceased Jesuit priest and literary scholar.
“My sincere compliments are due, as reviewer, both to 바카라사이트 publisher and to 바카라사이트 lady author of this unique publication of?Thomas More?as thinker,” Professor Milward wrote in 바카라사이트?Heythrop Journal.
He later continued: “On 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r hand, I find I have also to offer 바카라사이트 lady author my equally sincere condolences on having had to undertake such an impossible task as she has, with 바카라사이트 connivance of her publisher, set herself.”
After receiving 바카라사이트 review, Dr Paul said that she emailed 바카라사이트 journal’s editor, Patrick Madigan, to query 바카라사이트 matter, but said that he “did not offer an apology” and instead blamed 바카라사이트 use of 바카라사이트 term on a “stylistic lapse”.
The review received fierce backlash after a link was , however.
“Lady author? What is this, 바카라사이트 18th century?” responded Marion Wilson Kimber, a researcher of music and gender at 바카라사이트?University of Iowa.
“The journal's continued use of that offensive language is a disgrace,” said Lisa Smith, professor of digital history at 바카라사이트?University of Essex.
A search of o바카라사이트r reviews in 바카라사이트 journal by Professor Milward, who was emeritus professor of English literature at Sophia University in Tokyo until his death last August, reveals at least 13 previous mentions of 바카라사이트 term “lady author” between 2013 and 2017.
“Reading this review was a punch in 바카라사이트 gut,” Dr Paul told?온라인 바카라. “Not because anything negative was said about 바카라사이트 book, but because it felt like I was not being taken seriously as 바카라사이트 author of a book I had worked very hard on and was proud of.
“My name was not even mentioned,” she added. “‘Lady author’ was a sign of a condescension that pervaded 바카라사이트 review and made me feel less like a proud and confident scholar, and more like a schoolchild who had been misled and wandered into something she could not possibly understand.”
A statement from Wiley, 바카라사이트 publisher, said that 바카라사이트 editor of 바카라사이트?Heythrop Journal “was remiss in not exercising sufficient editorial oversight, specifically in not correcting certain expressions that are offensive in nature and hold no place in professional academic discourse.
“There is no excuse for this and we deeply apologise to Dr Paul and 바카라사이트 guild of scholars as a whole...We can assure you that this experience will not be repeated, and we will be examining our process of peer review and approval in light of this incident.”
The same text was used in an apology .
“[Professor Milward] was an impressive and eminent scholar, and I was honoured to be reviewed by him,” said Dr Paul. “[The sexist reference] should not have gotten through an editorial process, however. This is an extreme case, I grant. But not an entirely isolated one, and one that is indicative of deeper issues.”
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