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Author Archives: Ann Bartow
William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 Passes House and Senate, But Offers Less Protection To Victims Compared with the 2007 House Version.
And the impetus for watering down the bill was of course Joe Biden, in collusion with Sam Brownback. The text of the 2008 version of the bill can be found here. The major changes in the 2008 version were in … Continue reading
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Looks like most if not all of the “EPA Fugitives” are men.
Information on these environmental offenders here.
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Are Apples Gender Neutral?
And if strawberries are female, are bananas male?
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Carol Sanger, “Seeing and Believing: Mandatory Ultrasound and the Path to a Protected Choice”
Abstract: Several state legislatures now require that before a woman may consent to an abortion, she must first undergo an ultrasound and be offered the image of her fetus. The justification is that without an ultrasound, her consent will not … Continue reading
“Meet the Press…with another white dude”
Post about the lack of diversity on Meet the Press here, at Viva La Feminista. See also this HuffPo piece by Carol Jenkins, Not Enough Cracks in the Media’s Glass Ceiling.
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Today is Jane Addams Day!
Learn more here! In light of yesterday’s events in Illinois, it is good to be reminded of all the good that civic minded people can do. Of course, we would all have to do an awful lot to match the … Continue reading
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Cheerleading accounted for two-thirds of all catastrophic injuries among female high school and college athletes.
That’s a statistic from this WaPo article, entitled: “Rooting for Safety: Cheerleading Is Risky But Ill-Regulated.” Below are a couple of excerpts: … Concerns about cheerleading safety arise whenever a high-profile accident occurs. But alarm spiked again this summer when … Continue reading
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Sex Based Medicine
Great post here, below is a short excerpt: Now, Dr. Isis quite frequently blogs about being a girl, so a letter in this week’s Science entitled Flaunting the Feminine Side of Research Studies certainly caught the eye of the domestic … Continue reading
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Don’t watch this if you have a latex allergy.
Never saw this condom factory tour on Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood!
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Dessert fit for the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Spaghetti Cake! The “spaghetti” is just buttercream piped through a large round tip, the “sauce” is strawberry jam tinted with yellow & white food colours, the “meatballs” are Ferrero Rocher truffles and the “cheese” is shaved white chocolate! From here.
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Tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in the case, AT & T v. Hulteen — the case revolving around the interpretation of the scope of gender discrimination and pregnancy discrimination in employment under Title VII and the Pregnancy Discrimination Act.
From Dionne Scott at the Center for Reproductive Rights: Four women who entered the workforce prior to the enactment of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) are disputing AT & T’s calculation of their pensions. That calculation was based on a … Continue reading
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Hip Hop, Capitalism, and Taking Back the Music
I read with great interest Jonah Weiner’s recent Slate article decrying the absence of women in hip hop music. After providing a compelling (if not, in my opinion, entirely accurate) history of women in the genre, he explains the reasons … Continue reading
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The NCAA tries to prevent men from blaming Title IX for cuts to sports that are actually recession related.
And, I’d bet most readers join me in hoping this works! From USA Today: NCAA President Myles Brand has a message for member institutions: Don’t blame Title IX. Brand expects some schools to drop men’s teams in coming months because … Continue reading
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Noting the Passing of Jan Kemp, UGA Athletics Whistleblower
From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Jan Kemp, the controversial former English professor at the University of Georgia who blew the whistle on preferential treatment afforded to student athletes, passed away Friday of complications from Alzheimer’s Disease. She was 59. Named a”hero … Continue reading
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“Exploiting People, Stereotypes Is Not Exactly Sexy”
That’s the title of this post at Jezebel, in which blogger Megan Carpentier writes fairly critically about a “charity porn” initiative to “Save African Orphans” that seems pretty appalling at every level. I’m a little uncomfortable with the tone of … Continue reading
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Lawyerly Holiday Humor from the ABA
Here.
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“Afropublicrats and a More Perfect Love (Or, Living Wrong and Voting Right)”
Read the new post by this title by Lolita Buckner Inniss here.
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On Morphing Body Standards
Great post at What Tami Said, entitled: “And here I thought my child bearing hips were just fine.” Painting from here.
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FGM and Asylum
Useful overview here.
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That’s an Obama speechwriter on the left.
Charming, huh? From this WaPo story: Question No. 58 in the transition team vetting document for the Obama White House asks that applicants: “Please provide the URL address of any websites that feature you in either a personal or professional … Continue reading
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“Whether you’re a regular griller or a gourmet chef, are counting calories or are a vegetarian who craves mouth-watering bacon taste without the bacon guilt, this is what you’ve been waiting for.”
This is a noncommercial blog that rarely does product endorsements, but an exception must be made for: I was going to buy a case and send it to Historiann! But if I ever got hold of a case I’d probably … Continue reading
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New Blog: Suggestions4Obama.com
From the FLP mailbox: As its name suggests, Suggestions4Obama.com is a venue to allow anyone to offer suggestions for Obama and his upcoming administration. Users may offer their suggestions, tips and advice on various critical issues such as foreign policy, … Continue reading
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The Feminist Majority Political Action Committee has endorsed Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) to fill the US Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Press release here. With Biden out of the Senate, the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act has a better chance of making it to the floor of the Senate. Elevating Rep. Maloney to the Senate would improve the bill’s … Continue reading
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Obama: Ratify the Women’s Convention Soon
Nearly 30 years after President Jimmy Carter signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the United States remains the only democracy that refuses to ratify the most significant treaty guaranteeing gender equality. One … Continue reading
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Patients v. Medical Students: A Provocative Discussion.
One of my favorite law profs sent me a link to a medical student discussion board, where a very long thread started off with this post: From some personal experience and hearing stories from others, there seems to be a … Continue reading
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Circuit City As Pimp?
I’m not exaggerating. In a commercial entitled “Pick Up” a guy is talking to a woman on the phone, saying how he wants to pick her up, saying things like,”It’s kind of hard to talk right now, it’s complicated…”in a … Continue reading
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Sex Trafficking Arrest in Nashville
From here: Arturo Perez and Jesus Garcia are charged with promoting prostitution and trafficking for sexual servitude after police said they would make the 22-year-old from Mexico City have sex with up to seven men a day. To make her … Continue reading
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Holiday Decorations Regulations
From an e-mail sent by our University Fire Marshall: In keeping everyone safe to enjoy the holidays, we want to remind the members of the USC community of the regulations governing fire safety and holiday decorations. Chapter 8 of The … Continue reading
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Alcohol as dating accoutrement.
Sociological images has an overview of troubling advertisements here. Follow the links at the bottom for more examples, including this one. Ugh.
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Colorado man charged with criminal libel over Craigslist posts suggesting his former lover traded sexual acts for legal services from her attorney
Yahoo News account here. Colorado is one of 17 states with a criminal libel statute, according to this site.
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Catharine A. MacKinnon has been appointed Special Gender Adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
From here: Prof. Catharine A. MacKinnon was appointed as Special Gender Adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. She will provide strategic advice to his Office on sexual and gender violence, an area where expertise is required under … Continue reading
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Whoa.
This poster by the British Pregnancy Advisory Services is part of a holiday program that encourages women to stock up on the morning-after pill “just in case” by offering it for free. Via.
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Indiana Planned Parenthood is offering gift certificates
From here: Planned Parenthood in Indiana says it is selling gift certificates this holiday season for the first time in its history. Chrystal Struben-Hall, Planned Parenthood in Indiana vice president, said the reason for the controversial sales move is due … Continue reading
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Today is World AIDS Day
More information here.
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Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye’s Legacy
The first part of a series at the New York Law Journal celebrating C.J. Kaye’s career is accessible here.
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Kimberly Mutcherson, “Making Mommies: Law, Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis, and the Complications of Pre-Motherhood”
The abstract: The article focuses on pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (“PGD”), a technology that allows health care providers and potential parents to screen embryos for a range of characteristics prior to implanting them in a woman’s uterus. Many potential parents use … Continue reading
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“Rape looms large over Haiti slums”
So reports this BBC article, which starts out: Human rights organisation Amnesty International is calling on the Haitian government to do more to tackle the widespread rape of girls, often by gangs of armed men. The Amnesty International report is … Continue reading
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“Porn in a flash”
That’s the title of this recent Salon article. Here’s the first paragraph: On a warm summer day two years ago, a 16-year-old girl put on a skirt and headed to the SuperTarget in her hometown of Tulsa, Okla. As she … Continue reading
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“Girls Beware!”
“Girls Beware”, the girl-oriented companion film to the unbelievably homphobic anti-gay propaganda film “Boys Beware”, similarly informed 1950s era viewers about the grave risks posed to teenagers by men. Wasn’t produced by feminists, that’s for sure! –Ann Bartow
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Former First Cat Blogging
Via.
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Women, Men, Familes, Careers
Echidne has a really good, thoughtful post here.
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“Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco, was accused in a complaint by a retired court executive of breaking into a judicial computer security system in 2001 to restore access to pornographic Web sites.”
Detailed account by Cynthia Cotts at Bloomberg News here. Below is an excerpt: Ralph Mecham, who headed the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts in Washington for 21 years until retiring in 2006, made the allegations in a Nov. 24 … Continue reading
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Which USC has the cooler mascot?
The University of South Carolina? Or that other USC located someplace out west? Incorrect answers will not make it through moderation! Incidentally, rumor has it that due to trademark infringement concerns that other USC is thinking of replacing Tommy … Continue reading
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Abortion and Medical School
The Wapo has a lengthy article entitled A Hard Choice on this topic, an excerpt is below: You think you are pro-choice, Carole Meyers was saying. But, really, “how pro-choice are you? What does it mean for you? What’s your … Continue reading
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The New York Times Disapproves of Getting Laid
There is a two part series on this topic over at the Language Log. The first is titled: No getting laid in the NYT and compares this passage from the NYT: “We created the prepaid RushCard,”Simmons says in [an … Continue reading
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The makers of a prosthetic penis to help men cheat on drugs tests have pleaded guilty to two charges of conspiracy in a US federal court.
From the BBC: The two men, George Wills and Robert Catalano, had been selling the device – known as the Whizzinator – over the internet for three years. The device was sold with a heating element and fake urine to … Continue reading
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Gender Gap Election Update
From the Feminist Weekly News: A wide gender gap played a key role in Anchorage mayor Mark Begich’s victory over Republican incumbent Ted Stevens, who has served six terms in the Senate. Though Begich won this razor-close race by less … Continue reading
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Discrimination Case Against eHarmony Proceeds as Class-Action in California
From PC Magazine: The day after online dating site eHarmony reached a settlement with the New Jersey attorney general’s office regarding gay and lesbian customers, a California Superior Court judge ruled that a separate case could proceed as a class-action. … Continue reading
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