Some progress has been made on the GE book, but it keeps getting pushed back due to other bits of work that have taken priority. I took time off writing the GE book to put together a self published article omnibus book.

The omnibus book is called Tech Book 1 - Published articles Oct 2006 - June 2008 by Michael Reed. Even though this book is about tech, it does contain two gender politics articles, rehashed versions of two of the articles on this site. If you follow the links to the oldish articles entitled ARTICLE: Defining equality and ARTICLE: Attacking feminism: why should a geek care? you can read the updated versions that I created for the book.

[edit: In addition, please note that, although a self published book, it is still a valid, citable source complete with an ISBN number. If you are writing about or researching male rights, it might  be handy. Look over the PDF version of the article. It contains UK-centric information about affirmative action, female involvement in open source software development, education and feminism. Lot's of handy (and fully cited) facts and figures.]

If you like, you could buy a copy of the book by visiting my main website. Or, if you’re feeling a bit hard up, you can download a free e book copy by clicking here (PDF format 6.5 megs).

Hopefully, there won’t be any other delays and I can get on with creating a first draft of the GE book from my masses of notes. At the moment, the book exists only as a mass of about 50,000 words of notes. The delays that I have had so far mean that a release before the end of the year is impossible. I’m aiming to have some news about the book by about May 2009.

It ended up being something of a time-sucker of a project, but I learned quite a lot by doing it. As a result, the gender politics book is going to be much better. If it does end up being self published book, the publishing phase will move much more quickly.

A quick point on self publishing. I’m proceeding as though I will have to self publish the GE book, but I may attempt to find publisher interest. When I started writing it I didn’t have any published material under my belt. However, I am now making inroads into the world of freelance tech journalism. If things continue as they are doing, I might be able to develop a profile sufficient to get a publisher on board. We’ll see where things stand next year.