Author Archives: Ann Bartow

A Farewell to the L-Word

Here, at Feminist Spectator.

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“Women Are Heroes”

Interesting account of a global photography project here.

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Criminal Charges for an Accused Cyberbully

Raphael Golb has been charged with one felony count of second-degree identity theft, plus four misdemeanor charges related to his online sock-puppeting and bullying activities. The Chron reports: The son of a prominent Dead Sea Scrolls scholar was arrested on … Continue reading

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Buy Smaller Sized Eggs?

“Buying large eggs is cruel, shoppers told”: It might make a larger omelette but a bigger egg isn’t necessarily a better one : and it certainly doesn’t make the hen that laid it very happy. That is the view of … Continue reading

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“The Powder and the Glory”

PBS will soon air a documentary about the cosmetics industry: The Powder & the Glory tells the story of two of the first highly successful women entrepreneurs in America, Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein. One hundred years ago these women … Continue reading

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South Carolina House considering “sovereignty” legislation that its author says “walks right up to the door of secession.”

The text of the bill, reprinted below in italics, is available here. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION TO AFFIRM THE RIGHTS OF ALL STATES INCLUDING SOUTH CAROLINA BASED ON THE PROVISIONS OF THE NINTH AND TENTH AMENDMENTS TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. … Continue reading

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Water Bottle Fountain

Photo taken at   the College of Charleston in Charleston, S.C. by Joan Perry.

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“A record number of workers filed federal job discrimination complaints last year, with claims of unfair treatment by older employees seeing the largest increase.”

From Yahoo News: … The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Wednesday it received more than 95,000 discrimination claims during the 2008 fiscal year, a 15 percent increase over the previous year. Charges of age discrimination jumped by 28.7 percent : … Continue reading

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“Cable, Satellite Providers to Push Pay-per-View Porn”

So reports Advertising Age in an article with the subtitle “Huge Profit Potential in Down Economy Prompts Promotional Efforts.” It suggests that “professional” pornography will soon become cheaper and easier to access, and even more ubiquitous generally. –Ann Bartow

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CFP: “Feminism, Law, and Masculinity,” September 11 – 12, 2009 Emory U. School of Law

The Feminism and Legal Theory Project is preparing for a conference on Feminism, Law, and Masculinity. This workshop will explore the relevance of masculinities studies to feminist legal theory and activism. We have long struggled, both within and without the … Continue reading

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Paralysis and Child Pornography?

Doug Berman at the Sentencing Law and Policy blog has two posts about cases in which defendants in child pornography cases received lesser sentences because they were paralyzed, here and here. Dan Filler has some related comments here at The … Continue reading

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Title IX Blog Twofer

This post talks about how after one university eliminated football for financial reasons, it cut women’s sports as well to achieve “equality” of opportunity. This post – well, here’s an excerpt: … In the early 80s [in Philadelphia], a girls’ … Continue reading

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Ariel Levy Update

Here, at Historiann.

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Case and Nussbaum v. Posner

Listen to a podcast of critiques of Posnerian jurisprudence by U. of Chicago law professors Mary Ann Case and Martha Nussbaum right here, with a response by Posner. Neither Case nor Nussbaum drops the f-bomb, but the prospect must have … Continue reading

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Some air travel stories.

Most of the planes flying in and out of Columbia, South Carolina, are very small. When you take them you have to “gate check” bags that would be carry ons on most commercial airplanes, because the overhead compartments can’t accommodate … Continue reading

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“It took 36 years of extracurricular competition, including annual world championships at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, but this March kicks off New York City’s first-ever season of competitive double dutch in its public high schools.”

Post title taken from a story here at Women’s Enews entitled “Urban Girls Jump Into the Title IX Gap”. But if you want to see THE BEST Double Dutch action, y’all should head down here to Columbia, South Carolina.

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“Note: This post has been corrected to note that Barack Obama won Florida in the general election, not South Carolina.”

That is the final sentence of this NYT article. Sort of startling that an article would actually be published at the NYT site which made such an incredibly obvious mistake, but then again, most of the writers and editors at … Continue reading

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Obama’s Cultural Diplomacy

In Thursday’s Washington Post, E.J. Dionne Jr. had a fascinating piece,”Obama’s Cultural Diplomacy.” Dionne talks about how Obama is trying to”ease the nation’s divisions around religion and moral questions”by, among other things,”a promise to reduce the number of abortions.”   … Continue reading

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Nose blowing humor.

Here. Booger free, too.

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Parenting Tip

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Doctors Without Borders Releases Sexual Violence Report

SHATTERED LIVES Immediate medical care vital for sexual violence victims Médecins Sans Frontières is an international humanitarian organisation that brings emergency medical care to populations in over 60 countries. Through this report, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) shares its experience in … Continue reading

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“Deconstructing the First Year: How Law School Experiences Lead to Misunderstandings of What Lawyers Do”

Great post you should read by this title at Clinicians With Not Enough To Do.

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Debunking Abortion Talking Points

Earlier this week, I read an article stating that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was poised to sign a bill requiring parental notification when minors receive abortions.   It did not seem particularly newsworthy to me at the time – the … Continue reading

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The Blog Looks Best With A Firefox or Safari Browser

Looks kinda freakish with IE, and you can’t see the blogroll. We’ll try to fix this but meanwhile, here’s another reason to give up IE!

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Is Kaiser trying to encourage Spanish speaking women to get tubal ligations more assertively than English speakers?

It sure looks that way. Read this.

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“S.C. suffering lack of female lawmakers”

Op-Ed re-posted from here by ANNIE BOITER-JOLLEY and LAURA R. WOLIVER In November, women made advances in representation in state legislatures across the country. Out of 2,332 female candidates nationwide, 1,465 won their bids for state legislative seats : 1,351 … Continue reading

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Campaign for Peace and Democracy: Letter to Defend Shirin Ebadi

IRANIAN HUMAN RIGHTS LEADER SHIRIN EBADI IN DANGER PEACE ACTIVISTS CALL ON TEHERAN TO ENSURE HER SAFETY To: Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Ayatollah Shahrudi, Head of the Judiciary Mohammad Khazaee, Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United … Continue reading

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Bad Balloon Art

Via.

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Book Review: “Feminist Mothering” edited by Andrea O’Reilly

Check out Veronica’s informative review at Viva La Feminista.

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“The Feminist Food Studies Bookshelf”

From this blog: Only in the past 10 years has there emerged a critical look at the centrality of women’s relationship to food practices and the meanings embedded in them. Here’s a few of those works. I’m developing a more … Continue reading

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Guest Post by Liz Funk, a freelance writer, author, and college senior

I was on the Today Show on Tuesday, March 10th to discuss my new book”Supergirls Speak Out: Inside the Secret Crisis of Overachieving Girls,”and I had the pleasure of chatting a little bit with Meredith Viera before the cameras started … Continue reading

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When the number of bodies hit double digits, finally the police begin seriously investigating cases of missing prostitutes.

If anybody has forgotten how dangerous prostitution is, or how little law enforcement officials generally care about making it safer, there is this horrifying report: In the desert outside Albuquerque, hikers have sometimes stumbled upon human remains partially buried under … Continue reading

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I’m thinking she should have said “no.”

Yeesh.

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Lolita Buckner Inniss, “On Being a Black Woman Lawyer (Or, The Sound of Silence)”

Read her essay by this title here. It begins: There are right now two lawsuits being prosecuted by black women lawyers that are quietly making their way around the Internet. A little too quietly for my taste. …

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Feminism by Whirlpool

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I Wanna Be …

Via The New Agenda blog

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FIRST ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING October 29-31, 2009 University of Nebraska – Lincoln

FIRST ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING: “WHAT WE KNOW AND WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW” The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers from many disciplines, as well as government and non-governmental agencies who have responsibility for … Continue reading

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“According to the CDC’s final numbers for 2006, just released this year, the teenage birth rate increased 3 percent, putting a stop to the 14-year decline from 1991-2005.”

From ABC News: … According to the report, teen birth rates were highest in the South and Southwest. Mississippi led the way, followed closely by New Mexico and Texas. The only states that saw a decrease in teen birth rates … Continue reading

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Zip Code Based Study of Porn Consumption Finds Red States Consume the Most

A new study entitled “Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment?” by Harvard Business School Prof Benjamin Edelman, focuses on the consumption side of adult online entertainment, and in particular on subscriber demographics and consumption patterns of those who … Continue reading

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The Global Arc of Justice Conference, March 11 – 14th in Los Angeles

The International Lesbian and Gay Law Association is working with the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy to put on The Global Arc of Justice: Sexual Orientation Law Around the World March 11-14, and it is bringing … Continue reading

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Can “nice guys” be sexual harassers?

Zuska takes on that question here.

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Cyber Civil Rights

Danielle Citron’s article “Cyber Civil Rights” is now in print. She handed me a reprint a few minutes ago, yay! Her presentation is based on this work. She’s talking about women being driven off line, or at least out of … Continue reading

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The only law review article with “tax” in the title that I am likely to read this year will be written by Bridget Crawford

And it will be based on her incredibly awesome presentation here at the William and Mary School of Law. Her topic is “Privacy, Pregnancy and Taxation” and it is fascinating. Surrogacy contracts have become one of her scholarly interests, and … Continue reading

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The Ad Council takes on cyberbullying.

Talent Show: Bulletin Board: Kitchen: The Ad Council seems to believe most cyberbullies are women, and all the victims are. –Ann Bartow

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Funny advertisement for a camping store.

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Profile of Sex Workers in China

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From my E-mail archives, springtime wishes.

Happy Springtime, Everyone!!! Click on the link below.   You will get a black page. Click your mouse anywhere (& everywhere) on the page & see what happens! Better yet, click & drag your mouse over the black page… Enjoy!! … Continue reading

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“At Work”

From here: When the economy makes big news, many photographs of people at work come across the wires, usually to help illustrate a particular story or event. By collecting these disparate photos over the past few months, I found that … Continue reading

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“In 2007, women only made up 14 percent of the Army. However, during the same year, women accounted for 46 percent of all Army discharges under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

So notes the ACS Blog, which reports: Under the Clinton-era Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, military recruiters and authorities are banned from asking about a soldier’s sexual identify. However, soldiers are required to hide their sexual orientation from public view … Continue reading

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Boy Toys …

And girl toys? Ian Ayres has a question for you Happy Meal purchasers over at Balkinization.

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