Author Archives: Ann Bartow

Is Nancy Pelosi Too Hot Looking Or Not Hot Looking Enough?

She can’t be just right, no woman ever is.

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Calling Out Sexism By Blog!

This wild and out there feminist blog makes me laugh. If you want to check it out, here’s a good sample post. –Ann Bartow

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Mary Anne Franks, “What’s Left of Pleasure? A Book Review of Janet Halley’s Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism”

This book review appeared in 30 Harv. J. L. & Gender 257 (2007) Abstract: This book review critically evaluates Janet Halley’s “hedonics of critique,” a theoretical approach that prioritizes the celebration of pleasure over harm – harm that Halley claims … Continue reading

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Michele E. Gilman, “Welfare, Privacy, and Feminism”

Abstract: Feminism has long been concerned with privacy. Second-wave feminists assailed the divide between the public and the private spheres that trapped women in the home, excluded them from the workforce, and subjected them to domestic abuse. Second-wave feminists also … Continue reading

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Camera Extension

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United Airlines settles harassment suit over cockpit pornography

The Seattle Times reports: United Airlines has settled a federal sexual-harassment lawsuit filed by a former pilot who grounded herself after repeatedly finding pornography hidden in the cockpits of domestic airline flights. Details of the settlement with former Capt. Lisa … Continue reading

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Jonathan Todres, “Law, Otherness, and Human Trafficking”

Abstract: Despite concerted efforts to combat human trafficking, the trade in persons persists and, in fact, continues to grow. This article suggests that a central reason for the limited success in preventing human trafficking is the dominant conception of the … Continue reading

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Naomi Cahn and Jennifer M. Collins, “Eight is Enough”

The Abstract On January 26, 2009, the nation’s second set of live-born octuplets was delivered. The public fascination with this event quickly turned ugly when the media revealed that the mother was thirty-three year-old Nadya Suleman, who is single, unemployed, … Continue reading

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“Sarah Palin – Objectification – Reaction – Situation”

That is the title of an interesting post at The Situationist which provides an overview of research by psychologists from University of South Florida, Jamie L. Goldenberg and Nathan A. Heflick,  which examined the objectifying effects of thinking about Sarah … Continue reading

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Client’s use of eff word gets lawyer sanctioned.

From here: A federal judge has levied sanctions of more than $29,000 on a lawyer and his client after finding that a deposition was a “spectacular failure” because of the client’s constant use of vulgar language and insults and dodging … Continue reading

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Note that it happened in NORTH Carolina…

This. Oy. –Ann Bartow

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Sixth Annual IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections Conference – “Female Fan Culture and Intellectual Property” April 23 & 24, 2009

Presented by American University Washington College of Law’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, Women and the Law Program, and Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law, in collaboration with American University’s Center for Social Media and The … Continue reading

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Portia De Rossi Apologizes For Getting Married

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Justice O’Connor on Women’s Rights

Justice O’Connor participated in an interview with the New York Times to promote her new website for children.   Though she declines to call herself a feminist, take note of what she does say: Do you call yourself a feminist? … Continue reading

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Yale Law School Has A Woman “Acting Dean”

Current Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh has been nominated by President Obama to serve as the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State. Taking his place as Acting Dean is Prof. Kate Stith. More here.

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From the Department of: “Women Law Profs Don’t Know Anything About Hate Speech”

Columbia Law School division. This lecture series is advertising this speaker line up: ‘Hate Speech’ and Incitement to Violence This workshop series is being convened by Professor Kendall Thomas and Lecturer-in-Law Peter Molnar, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for … Continue reading

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Eat Me.

Via I Blame the Patriarchy, I found the blog Suicide Food, which tracks “depiction[s] of animals that act as though they wish to be consumed.” Images like this: and this: That second one makes me think about terminating the “baconpheffer” … Continue reading

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“Jaded”

That’s the name of this post at What Tami Said, a blog I like a lot. Tami is a talented writer and her posts are always interesting. Here’s a short except from “Jaded“: Women’s equality, I think, is best achieved–not … Continue reading

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“I Was Followed, Harassed, And Ambushed By Bill O’Reilly’s Producer”

Read Amanda Terkel’s story here.

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“In fiscal 2008, the department received a total of 2,908 reports of sexual assault involving service members, representing an eight percent increase from fiscal 2007.”

Quote pulled from this DOD press release, which provides an overview of this DOD report. Excerpt from Executive Summary below: – Aggregate Report of Sexual Assault Incidents: In FY08 there were 2,908 reports of sexual assault involving Military Service members: … Continue reading

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Link Round-up “Recession, job loss & their economic impact on women”

Here, via Jill Zimon.

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“The [New York Times’] policy says the newspaper will not allow personal or partisan attacks from behind a mask of anonymity.”

The NYT’s Public Editor criticizes the paper for failing to live up to this policy here.

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New Ani DiFranco Song “November 4, 2008”

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“Southern Chiconomics”

One of my fantastic former students has a cool new blog!

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“Images of Masculinity in Disney Films”

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“Lorraine Hansberry’s Gay Politics: Why the ‘Raisin in the Sun’ playwright’s homosexual ties have been straight-washed from black history.”

That’s the title of this essay at The Root. Via.

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What’s with all the new movies in which the woman has to fix herself so that she may be loved by a man?

That’s what Emma Rosenblum asks here in NY Magazine, writing in part: … Since Sex and the City, a woman has become the central protagonist in a genre that used to have two (so instead of Spencer Tracy and Katharine … Continue reading

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“Sophie Germain – Revolutionary Mathematician”

Interesting post about Sophie Germain here at Angry for a Reason, below is an excerpt: In 1794 the École Polytechnique opened in Paris. It’s mission statement was to”train mathematicians and scientists for the country”(Perl 64). The school did not admit … Continue reading

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“Feminism 101: On Language and the Commodification of Sex Via Humor”

Melissa lays it out here, noting: [O]ne of the most common themes among the emails I get is gratitude for expressing frustration or contempt or anger at something of which, women have been told in explicit or implicit ways, our … Continue reading

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Teen Suicide Linked to Cyberbullying

From here: The image was blurred and the voice distorted, but the words spoken by a young Ohio woman are haunting. She had sent nude pictures of herself to a boyfriend. When they broke up, he sent them to other … Continue reading

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The first all-female, all African American crew to operate a commercial flight:

(From top, left) Captain Rachelle Jones, First Officer Stephanie Grant and flight attendants Diana Galloway and Robin Rogers. The AFL-CIO NOW blog reports: Last month, when first officer Stephanie Grant of Atlantic Southeast Airlines got the call to replace the … Continue reading

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Two Interesting Conferences Slated for April 8th

Reproductive and Sexual Health and the African Women’s Protocol at the Washington and Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Virginia, and CEDAW and Its Optional Protocol at the New England Law School in   Boston, Massachusetts. More information here.

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Interview With “Gay Conversion” Pastor

I thought this was hilarious, your mileage may vary… –Ann Bartow

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“Iraq’s Unspeakable Crime: Mothers Pimping Daughters”

From Time magazine: She goes by Hinda, but that’s not her real name. That’s what she’s called by the many Iraqi sex traffickers and pimps who contact her several times a week from across the country. They think she is … Continue reading

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Coupon Clipping

Here’s a post that will encourage you to use coupons, and here’s a related post that will encourage you to girlcott Whole Foods. Which I already do, largely because there isn’t one within 100 miles of where I live, but … Continue reading

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Let Them Eat Quiche

Tomorrow the International Law Society at my law school hosts its annual fund raiser. It’s an all you can eat lunch comprised of donated homemade ethnic foods. Here are the University-related fundraisers I’ve already contributed to this academic year: the … Continue reading

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“Where to Now?”

The WaPo published a long article about women in politics here. You should definitely read the entire thing, but I’ll give you my brief take away: Women who are able need to either run for office or support the heck … Continue reading

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Bacon Watch

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“Female Merit Badges” were designed by artist Mary Yaeger to represent female rites of passage and the many physical manipulations women undergo to achieve cultural ideals of beauty.

Homepage here. Via, by way of here.

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

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SPEAK! THE WOMEN OF COLOR MEDIA COLLECTIVE HAS RELEASED A SELF-TITLED DEBUT CD

Information here.

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More about academic bullying…

…here at Minding the Workplace, where there is also a post about workplace bullying generally. Via.

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Flash Drives That Look Like Tampons

Via. Available here (scroll down).

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“An Ohio city court says it will only accept new case filings from people who bring their own paper.”

Yeesh. The Columbus Dispatch reports: A Morrow County court is going BYOP: Bring your own paper. The Municipal Court that handles civil, small claims, criminal and traffic cases won’t accept new case filings starting Monday because it’s almost out of … Continue reading

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United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Publishes New Report on Human Trafficking

From StopVAW: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)  has just completed a new report on human trafficking. The report begins with a global overview on legislation, the criminal justice response, trafficking patterns, intra-and-international flows, and monitoring. The … Continue reading

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U.N. BIBLIOGRAPHY ON TRAFFICKING IN HUMAN BEINGS

Here.

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Childbirth Song

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“J’accuse, or, I got yer class warfare right here, pal.”

Yes, another great post by Historiann!

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Kimberly D. Phillips, “My Body is a Sacred ‘Garment’: Does the First Amendment Protect Clothing Designers Who Work Naked?”

The abstract: A Warner Brothers employee, Ms. Lyle, sued the writers of the TV program, Friends, for sexual harassment because the writers used sexually explicit coarse and vulgar language during their script writing sessions for the show. In the Supreme … Continue reading

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