{"id":2938,"date":"2014-07-01T12:56:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T17:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/?p=2938"},"modified":"2014-07-01T12:56:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T17:56:56","slug":"virginia-rutter-love-and-scholarly-generosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/2014\/07\/01\/virginia-rutter-love-and-scholarly-generosity\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Rutter, Love, and Scholarly Generosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/articles\/201406\/love-lust\">Love and Lust<\/a> is the cover story in the July issue of <em>Psychology Today<\/em>. And while the photos may be salacious, the writing is sagacious. The author, Virginia Rutter, is one of our favorite public scholars. On\u00a0TSP, she&#8217;s known for her authoritative &#8220;Nice Work&#8221;\u00a0contributions on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/\">Girl w\/ Pen!<\/a><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u00a0and, more recently,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/families\/\">Families as They Really Are<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/\">Council on Contemporary Families<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Apart from her formidable\u00a0skills as a sociologist and writer, Professor\u00a0Rutter&#8217;s work is distinguished by a characteristic all-too-rare among scholars: her <em>generosity<\/em>. To publish our work as academics, we often need to frame\u00a0it\u00a0in terms of the horrible weaknesses in everybody else&#8217;s work. This style might (or might not) work in the journals, but it undercuts us completely when we&#8217;re trying to reach a public audience &#8212; it makes it seem as though we don&#8217;t know anything at all. Virginia Rutter takes a different approach. Her <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/author\/vrutter\/\">Nice Work<\/a>\u00a0columns, like her new Psychology Today article, tell a much more coherent and cumulative story about the contributions made by different social researchers. Her new FATRA piece on the <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/families\/2014\/06\/23\/the-equal-pay-act-turns-51-this-month\/\">Equal Pay Act<\/a>\u00a0similarly offers a balanced presentation about what we know collectively and where we might go in the future.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re interested in writing successfully for venues like <em>Psychology Today<\/em>, <em>Contexts<\/em>, or TSP, you might take a cue from generous scholars like Professor Rutter.\u00a0If you wish to be loved; Love!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love and Lust is the cover story in the July issue of Psychology Today. And while the photos may be salacious, the writing is sagacious. The author, Virginia Rutter, is one of our favorite public scholars. On\u00a0TSP, she&#8217;s known for her authoritative &#8220;Nice Work&#8221;\u00a0contributions on\u00a0Girl w\/ Pen!\u00a0and, more recently,\u00a0Families as They Really Are\u00a0and\u00a0Council on Contemporary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2939,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938\/revisions\/2939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}