Please do me a favor and take this survey

Hi all

I am conducting an informal survey on gender and fiction genres for a paper I'm writing for grad school. I'm trying to get as many people as possible to take the survey, so if you can spare five minutes to answer it, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=2JWQN3CqEjRrMlSwYZMBew_3d_3d

I think it's borken? I can't tick more than one box in each column for the last question.

fuck. one minute.

yeah, I was wondering about that. I hoped it was just counting the results anyway and not displaying.

ok it should be fixed. thanks for the heads-up.

i knew something like that would happen.

I took the test, but the last question couldn't be answered completely (when I clicked one option, I wasn't able to tick the next answer for example). I put the answers in my comment box. Hope that's okay for you!

thanks stevienixed, the problem should be fixed now but the comment field solution should work.

seems to be taking an age for me to load, will try at home later.

It worked for me.

ok done

from one lis student to another...

Happy to help, love a good survey.

done :)

Me too! Worked fine on opera mini on cell phone :-)

If you answered "yes," how often do you read for pleasure or recreation?

I read 1 or 2 books every week/fortnight depending on size of book/time restraints. Do you think this 'Occasionally' or 'Frequently'? I don't really know about comparing this to others except the freaks on ilb.

i think that's frequently, that's about how much i read. ilb people are "constantly."

done. went w/ occasionally on account of spending the past week reading the first couple pages of like 10 books, deciding it wasnt what i wanted to read and putting it back on my shelf. :(

obviously there's a certain degree of interpretation involved with a lot of these terms, just pick the one that you think is most accurate for you

I have been surveyed.

Done. Good luck with the paper.

me too

Always like a survey!

Just finished. Seems like this should be a really interesting paper!

Done.

Men From 1970 Tend To Think Women Read Romantic Stories Sexism Shocka!

what?

Maybe we're being tricked and the results will end up in a tabloid like this :-)

Done

done, good luck, let us know what you find out

*bump*

that was really fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

'Congrats' I did your survey - good luck. I've got 'library sciences' in my family! Kid sis is a u of c grad - under and masters and is a special collections librarian in San Diego (SDSU). Just a hint - don't work in Cali - forced furlough be the suck.

i was thinking i'd get a total of around 100 responses to this survey over the course of a week or so. i've gotten more than 200 responses since putting it up this morning (i also emailed it to people, posted it on facebook, had other people repost it on facebook, and posted it on my school message board). kinda crazy.

People like being surveyed! Makes us think our opinions matter. :-)

Ew, only girls read literary fiction.

Boys have a penis and read science fiction. Girls have a vagina and read romance.

There. Done.

I read 1 or 2 books every week/fortnight depending on size of book/time restraints.

Nowadays I am happy if I read one per month. It's no that I don't read "constantly" but just can't finish more than ten pgs per day as I'm too tired.:-(

i took the survey and now it's telling me to make my own. is that part of the survey?

__yes
__no
__maybe

__can you repeat the QUESTION!!!!!!

(altogether!)

All done, but I'm starting to wonder if I should've answered "occasionally" rather than "frequently".

I will retake it, since it went horribly wrong when I tried earlier. But thought this link was actually quite relevant to the subject (and an interesting read, regardless)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/nov/11/dont-patronise-popular-fiction-women

Read that earlier, thought it was a little off: her male-female points of comparison don't quite match up, so it's a bit disingenuous. I don't think some of the male writers she brings up – Toby Litt, Jonathan Lethem, Dave Eggers – are popular fiction in the way she's talking about. Zadie Smith or AL Kennedy would be closer parallels.

But there's still something there – Nick Hornby and David Nicholls do get treated as writers in a way that eg Helen Fielding doesn't. It's tricky, because I haven't read enough of the stuff she's defending to say, but I would imagine it's harder for someone like Sophie Kinsella/Cecelia Ahern to jump from gendered genre to oh-she's-actually-good than it is for – Mil Millington? Mike Gayle?

(Also, idk if writers like Barbara Pym and Elizabeth Taylor are underappreciated. Taylor gets a lot of love (certainly around I Love Books), comes into print a fair bit, is taken about as seriously as any other mid-century British comic/social novelist (Maybe more seriously - I'm not sure how Kingsley Amis's reputation stands nowadays). But yes, I suppose she's not quite a byword for something, in the way Amis is. I should think more on this.)

I finally got word from my school that it's (probably) OK to release the results of this survey/paper, so I'm writing up a summary on my blog. Part I (background and survey results) is up now:

http://infinitemonkeys.tumblr.com/post/587304839/genres-of-fiction-and-perceived-masculinity-pt-i

Part II (interpretation and discussion) should hopefully be up later this week.