Author Archives: Ann Bartow

Where are the women blast from the recent past: In the “Demisesquicentennial” issue of the University of Chicago Law Review, fourteen out of fourteen authors are dudes, and for bonus points, the secondary authors noted are male too!

5 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW REVIEW, NO. 2, SPRING, 2008. Demisesquicentennial. 75 U. Chi. L. Rev. 603-883 (2008). Nagareda, Richard A. Class actions in the administrative state: Kalven and Rosenfield revisited. 75 U. Chi. L. Rev. 603-648 (2008). Rothstein, Jesse … Continue reading

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“Last week, Los Angeles County officials revealed that there have been at least 16 previously unreported cases of HIV among porn performers in the past five years.”

The title of this article at Salon is awful, but it does report the following: Unfortunately, some sad news out of Porn Valley has made that particular feminist (and humanist) angle especially relevant: Last week, Los Angeles County officials revealed … Continue reading

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Hong Kong and Guangzhou

Hong Kong Guangzhou I’m back in Hong Kong after a couple of days in Guangzhou at the South China University of Technology. One of the people in our party got detained at the China border because she had a fever … Continue reading

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“the painful consequences of having sex without a condom”

An advertisement for condoms in China with the tag line “”Such tragedy could have been easily avoided”: Via. Strikes me as pretty dumb, if startling, but apparently it increased sales. –Ann Bartow

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“To hell with opting out”

From Amy Benfer at Salon: Taking a cue from the title of Belkin’s most famous article, a series in the American Prospect this week titled”When Opting Out Isn’t an Option“takes a long overdue look at the women who make up … Continue reading

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Obama DoJ Backs DOMA

Other acronyms that come to mind are JFC and WTF? Read the brief here. It makes the same weasel argument (“the states should decide for themselves”) John McCain made during his Presidential run. –Ann Bartow

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“David Letterman, the voice of dude nation”

Read Dr. Socks.

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Martha Minow Next Dean of Harvard Law School

HLS press release here. Awesome pick. More at The Situationist. –Ann Bartow

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The Age of Digital Convergence

This conference is off to a wonderful start, with a presentation by Dr. Melissa deZwart an Associate Professor at the University of South Australia School of Law. Spent yesterday touring Hong Kong, starting off with a hike up to the … Continue reading

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Off to China!

Blogging by me will probably be sparse for a couple of weeks. –Ann Bartow

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“U.S. JOURNALISTS EUNA LEE AND LAURA LING, INVESTIGATING SEX TRAFFICKING IN NORTH KOREA, ARRESTED, SENTENCED TO 12 YEARS AT HARD LABOR”

Heart has the story here.

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Women are under-represented in clinical cancer research published in high-impact journals, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Citation and Abstract: Under-representation of women in high-impact published clinical cancer research Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil 1 *, Amy R. Motomura, BSE 1, Sudha Amarnath, BS 2, Aleksandra Jankovic, MS 3, Nathan Sheets, BS 2, Peter A. Ubel, MD 3 … Continue reading

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“The ‘Happily Ever After’ Complex”

An illustrated overview of the Happily Ever After myth, monetized, here at StilettoRevolt. –Ann Bartow

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“When I Die They’ll Send Me Home” – Youth Behind Bars

Sara talks about being sent to prison for life for killing her pimp when she was 16 years old. In this 100-page report, Human Rights Watch found that in many cases where juveniles were prosecuted with an adult, the youth … Continue reading

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Corrupted-Files.com offers a service — recently noted by several academic bloggers who have expressed concern — that sells students (for only $3.95, soon to go up to $5.95) intentionally corrupted files. Why buy a corrupted file? Here’s what the site says: “Step 1: After purchasing a file, rename the file e.g. Mike_Final-Paper. Step 2: E-mail the file to your professor along with your ‘here’s my assignment’ e-mail. Step 3: It will take your professor several hours if not days to notice your file is ‘unfortunately’ corrupted. Use the time this website just bought you wisely and finish that paper!!!”

That is the second paragraph of this story at Inside Higher Ed.

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By David Mills, at Courtoons.

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Carnival of Radical Feminists #22, June 09

Here, at Genderberg.

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Too Scandalous To Be A Registered Trademark: “Pussy Natural Energy”

At least according to the TTAB which said: In this case, it is the term PUSSY which is the focus of the refusal and our analysis. The term PUSSY is the most significant element in the mark. Accordingly, when we … Continue reading

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Only Words: Bill O’Reilly’s Angry Tirades Against Dr. George Tiller

Via this Salon article, which notes: … Tiller’s name first appeared on “The Factor” on Feb. 25, 2005. Since then, O’Reilly and his guest hosts have brought up the doctor on 28 more episodes, including as recently as April 27 … Continue reading

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“Ferron: Girl on a Road”

Here’s the trailer: More info here.

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Playboy’s Misogyny More Overt Than Ever

Playboy.com began hosting a feature on the website listing and mocking conservative women they’d like to”hate-fuck.” And at least one supposedly liberal blog (ETA: or not, some controversy on this point) picked up on it as a “lighter side of … Continue reading

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Best xkcd comic yet…

Large version here.

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“… women still account, on average, for fewer than one in five big-firm partners.”

From The American Lawyer: … Looking specifically at gender diversity, our analysis found that women made up 34 percent of lawyers at the firms we surveyed: 45 percent of nonpartners and 19 percent of partners. It’s a respectable but not … Continue reading

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Will Gay Marriage Lead To Sex With Ducks?

Pat Robertson thinks so: And these two “chicks” are pretty stoked about the idea:

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CFP: Conference on”Violence and Vulnerability”at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia on November 12-14, 2009

“Violence against women both violates and impairs or nullifies the enjoyment by women of their human rights and fundamental freedoms… In all societies, to a greater or lesser degree, women and girls are subjected to physical, sexual and psychological abuse … Continue reading

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” 10 Infants, Small Children Murdered by Fathers in Past Two Weeks? Not News, Really. Mom Murders Son? Headlines Everywhere.”

Heart notes: A quick perusal of Google yields 10 instances of fathers or stepfathers murdering their infants or young children within the last two weeks or so: link, link, link, link, link, link, link, link, link, link, link. Had I … Continue reading

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“… authorize torture as a method of interrogation, and rape logically becomes part of the continuum of efforts to break down a prisoner’s self-esteem.”

Quote from here, in reference to this article, which notes: “Photographs of alleged prisoner abuse which Barack Obama is attempting to censor include images of apparent rape and sexual abuse …” Here is an excerpt: At least one picture shows … Continue reading

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Katha Pollitt, “Amber Waves of Blame”

First paragraph: Can we please stop talking about feminism as if it is mothers and daughters fighting about clothes? Second wave: you’re going out in that? Third wave: just drink your herbal tea and leave me alone! Media commentators love … Continue reading

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William and Mary Law Review – the All William and No Mary Edition

Issue 50:6 (May 2009) Articles Andrew Koppelman, Corruption of Religion and the Establishment Clause Thomas A. Lambert, Dr. Miles is Dead. Now What?: Structuring a Rule of Reason for Evaluating Minimum Resale Price Maintenance Robert T. Miller, The Economics of … Continue reading

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More About Barnes v. Yahoo

I blogged about the case previously here. Below is an excerpt from the Ninth Circuit’s holding in Barnes v. Yahoo at page 5316 that gives a quick overview of the facts: In accordance with Yahoo policy, Barnes mailed Yahoo a … Continue reading

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Dumb Warning Labels

“Warning: This product moves when used” (on a Razor scooter) “Use care when operating a car or dangerous machinery” (on a bottle of dog’s pills) Via.

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That Sotomayor Quote

Taken from Sotomayor’s Judge Mario G. Olmos Memorial Lecture in 2001, which she delivered at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, here is the context: … Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, a possibility … Continue reading

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Scott A. Moss, “The case against the case against the Sonia Sotomayor nomination”

Read it here.

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Would Obama Have Hugged A Male SCOTUS Nominee Like This?

Photo and question (somewhat differently stated) via IBTP. I’d have to go with “no.” –Ann Bartow

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Feminism Has Made Men Happier, Or Possibly the Backlash Against Feminism Is Making Men Happier.

Language Log does a good take down of this column (mentioned here too) which discusses this study which was previously blogged about here.   Here’s a graph of the data at issue: Not exactly overwhelmingly persuasive, is it? –Ann Bartow

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Today’s post-feminist moment: “Fox Sports Article On Top Women Athletes Includes A Horse”

From After Ellen, Via Crooks & Liars: Fox Sports has compiled a list of women that can hold their own against men in the sports world : because everyone knows the real measure of a female athlete is how she … Continue reading

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Strauss v. Horton

Read the opinion here.   Feminist efforts to   sort out what it all means can be found: Here at Tennessee Guerilla Women; Here at the Gender and Sexuality Law Blog; (additional links to come). See also the Linkfarm at … Continue reading

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“Justice Sonia Sotomayor” has a nice ring to it!

Don’t have anything interesting or important to add to all the conversation around the announcement that President Obama has nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor to teh Supreme Court, but couldn’t let it go unremarked.   I like this NTY story about … Continue reading

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Still more “breast cancer awareness” via the pinkification of consumer products.

Lisa at Sociological Images has a series of photos, such as the one just above, and this one depicting Breast Cancer Awareness Cat Food: The post poses some questions about this that can largely be summed up as WTF? (though … Continue reading

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For all the newly minted JDs…

Via.

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New Low for the Huff Po?

Ugh.

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Hillary Clinton Pushes For Same Sex Benefits At State Dept.

From The Advocate: The Advocate has obtained a draft of a letter from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to employees of the State Department that details her intentions to extend certain benefits to same-sex partners of foreign service officers posted … Continue reading

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The Law and Economics of the Backlash

Back in my early days of teaching I thought it might be interesting to present a feminist legal theory paper at an annual meeting of the American Law & Economics Association (ALEA). At least at that time, you had to … Continue reading

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Vegetarianism is cheaper.

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Remember when Ray Comfort claimed bananas proved Darwin wrong?

Well now there is a handcrafted product commemorating same, the Ray Comfort Tampon Case! Minds out of the gutter; that is a banana on the front of his pants. Order yours here. The artist says: “Materials: felt, fabric glue, thread, … Continue reading

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A Shushing at the Gynecologist

As reported by Zuska.

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Michigan Law Review Where Are The Women Redux: Fifteen articles, sixteen if you count the Foreword, only one written by a woman?

Michigan Law Review, Issue 107:8 (June 2009) (Past issues are available on our website.) FAULT IN CONTRACT LAW FOREWORD Omri Ben-Shahar & Ariel Porat, Fault in American Contract Law, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 1341 (2009) ARTICLES Richard A. Posner, Let … Continue reading

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Another NYU Law Review Edition of: Where Are The Women?

Volume 84 May 2009 Number 2 ARTICLES Categoricalism and Balancing in First and Second Amendment Analysis Joseph Blocher A Theory of Taxing Sovereign Wealth Victor Fleischer Toward Procedural Optionality: Private Ordering of Public Adjudication Robert J. Rhee NOTES A Relational … Continue reading

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California Assembly Passes Fair Pay Legislation

From the Feminist Daily News: The California state Assembly passed a state-level version of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act Monday on a 49 to 28 vote. The measure codifies at the state level a broader version of the federal … Continue reading

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