Author Archives: Ann Bartow

Fight Songs Of Southern Universities

So today I was ruminating on the University of South Carolina’s fight song, called “Step to the Rear,” a fight song in which the only lyrics are “Go Cocks!” Here’s a version played at a football game by The Mighty … Continue reading

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On Tea Drinking, Diplomacy, Politics and Feminism

Check out this post at Historiann.

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French Court Rules Virginity is Not an “Essential Quality” of a Bride

Details here at IntLawGrrls.

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Penn Program on Documentaries and the Law

From the Program’s homepage: Lawyers need to be knowledgeable participants in the cultural and social debates such films provoke about the significance of our roles in the creation and maintenance of a just, democratic society. To fulfill this role, we … Continue reading

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New Blog: On Being A Black Lawyer

Text of post adapted from a promotional e-mail: Yolanda Young has launched the blog www.onbeingablacklawyer.com. You might remember her as the former Covington & Burling staff attorney who chronicled her experience as a minority attorney there in The Huffington Post … Continue reading

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“How to be a good host–for schools that are still hiring”

Lesbo Prof has some interesting recommendations. Here is the part I liked the best: Second, don’t play “get the candidate.” While a spirited discussion about a candidate’s research is exciting and fun, and can show a candidate that you are … Continue reading

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Dean Saul Levmore on”The Internet’s Anonymity Problem”

Here, via Leiter.

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Speechless.

This.

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National Survey on Transgender Experiences of Discrimination in the U.S.

From the Woodhull Freedom Fund: If you identify as gender non-conforming in any way, please take the time to record your experiences and be a part of this historic effort.   The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, whose Policy … Continue reading

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Hillary Clinton Got The Most Votes Of Any “Write-In” Presidential Candidate In Duval County Florida. She Even Outperformed Jesus!

This news outlet reports: Some voters expecting to vote for Barack Obama or John McCain two weeks ago were surprised to see 11 other names on the ballot. But 736 voters in Duval County weren’t happy with any of the … Continue reading

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This Sounds Awfully Familiar!

Historiann has a post up about an e-mail exchange wherein a complete stranger demands her assistance, and is then very rude to her. Via Historiann, I saw this post at Female Science Professor about a stranger demanding something from her. … Continue reading

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Cervical Cancer

I know there are concerns about Gardasil, the vaccine for HPV, and I’m not a medical professional so I can’t provide any sort of authoritative opinion about its safety or effectiveness. What I will tell you is this: My cousin … Continue reading

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“The ‘Bitch’ and the ‘Ditz'”

That’s the title of this article in New York Magazine. The subtitle is: How the Year of the Woman reinforced the two most pernicious sexist stereotypes and actually set women back. Below is an excerpt: …This was an election cycle … Continue reading

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Campaign to Expose Fake Abortion Clinics

From FeministCampus.org: …so-called “Crisis Pregnancy Centers” or “Pregnancy Resource Centers” on your campus or in your community. They pose as legitimate health centers and offer “free” pregnancy tests. In reality, most crisis pregnancy centers (CPC’s) are not medical facilities at … Continue reading

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The Importance of Careful Reading

The headline says: Study: Vitamin C or E pills do not prevent cancer But the first line of the article says: Vitamin C or E pills do not help prevent cancer in men, concludes the same big study that last … Continue reading

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High Heels As Business Opportunity For Pain Killer Vendor?

Via.

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Does this make you want to become an organ donor?

Here’s what the text says:“Becoming a donor is probably your only chance to get inside her.” Via.

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A different kind of physics conferences – the ladies room was always crowded.

The third International Conference for Women in Physics! First person account at the f word.

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How not to cure a yeast infection: A first person essay.

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Time Periods: a history of menstrual products

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Nationwide Coordinated Protests Against California’s Proposition 8 Tomorrow!

More general information here. The Columbia, SC incarnation convenes at the State House at 1:30 pm. -Ann Bartow

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Sheila Jeffreys, “The Industrial Vagina: The political economy of the global sex trade”

From the publisher’s website: The industrialization of prostitution and the sex trade has created a multibillion-dollar global market, involving millions of women, that makes a substantial contribution to national and global economies. The Industrial Vagina examines how prostitution and other … Continue reading

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Ann E. Dunwoody becomes first female four-star general

Story here. Below is an excerpt: Dunwoody, whose husband, Craig Brotchie, served for 26 years in the Air Force, choked up at times during a speech in which she said she only recently realized how much her accomplishment means to … Continue reading

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Women and Intellectual Property law, a dialogue

An account of a fabulous round table discussion I took part in last week in Toronto, sponsored by Osgood Hall Law School (more precisely IP Osgoode, the Institute For Feminist Legal Studies, and Putting Theory To Practice (An International Speakers … Continue reading

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“As More Male Lawyers Use Flextime, its Acceptance Increases”

That’s this title of this article in the ABA Journal, below is an excerpt: More men are using flextime, even though it started as an accommodation for working mothers, according to Jennifer Halliday, the head of human resources at Arent … Continue reading

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Mainstream Misogyny

Echidne of the Snakes posted this recent example: This is from a recent O’Reilly Factor: Summary: On The O’Reilly Factor, Dennis Miller stated of Gov. Sarah Palin: “[M]ostly women on the left hate her, because to me, from outside in, … Continue reading

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New outreach initiative by NARAL

Post content adapted from an e-mail (quoted with permission): Check out a new web video released by NARAL Pro-Choice America as part of their free.will.power initiative. This is the most innovative campaign to come from the pro-choice movement and it … Continue reading

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Overused Words and Phrases

Lake Superior State University has an annual list overused words. For 2007 they were: Perfect storm Webinar Waterboarding Organic Wordsmith/wordsmithing* Post 9/11 Give back Author/authored ‘Blank’ is the new ‘Blank’ or ‘X’ is the new ‘Y’ Surge Black Friday Back … Continue reading

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Robert L. Nelson, ­Ellen C. Berrey and ­Laura Beth Nielsen, “Divergent Paths: Conflicting Conceptions of Employment Discrimination in Law and the Social Sciences”

The abstract: Legal conceptions of employment discrimination have become increasingly narrow over the past two decades as the law has adopted a”perpetrator”model of discrimination that emphasizes purposeful intent. This tendency runs counter to social scientific research that documents the pervasiveness … Continue reading

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Teen Pregnancy Prevention PSA Rejected by USA Today

Looks kind of effective, as these things go.

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It’s Slinky, a Slinky, for fun it’s a wonderful…cat.

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The World Economic Forum has released its annual Global Gender Gap Report.

From Jezebel: The World Economic Forum has released its annual Global Gender Gap Report and everyone from Matthew Kirdahy at Forbes to Kate Pickert at Time to Laura MacInnis at Reuters are all over the unsurprising news that the Scandanavian … Continue reading

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Rights of domestic violence abusers to own guns being considered by the Supreme Court

The case is U.S. v. Hayes, and the Court has been asked to rule on a Justice Department appeal asking for clarification of the federal law that criminalizes gun possession for people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence. Via Sentencing Law … Continue reading

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Objectifying and creepy commercial for Spykee, the wi-fi spy robot.

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“Power & Sex: America’s War on Sexual Rights”

Faye Wattleton, Katha Pollitt, Dagmar Herzog and Lynn Paltrow moderated by Michelle Fine How will the new administration handle the feminist agenda? Obama’s victory and the vote against abortion bans in Colorado and South Dakota brought some sexual rights back … Continue reading

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Brand New Blog by Lolita Buckner Inniss: “Ain’t I a Feminist Legal Scholar Too?”

Find it here!

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Malcolm M. Feeley and Hadar Aviram, “Where Have All the Women Gone? The Decline of Women in the Criminal Justice Process”

Abstract: This project sets out to refute the common criminological assumption that women have always constituted a negligible percentage of those subjected to the criminal justice process. Using a variety of primary and secondary datasets drawn from dozens of European … Continue reading

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What Will Whiteness Mean in the Obama Years?

Two interesting essays: This one (from whence I borrowed the title for this post) at Diary of an Anxious Black Woman, and this one, entitled Propositioning Privilege, at WoC PhD. –Ann Bartow

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Jennifer S. Hendricks, “Instead of ENDA, A Course Correction for Title VII”

Here is the beginning: The LGBT community may soon win a legal victory that has been decades in the making: passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). As passage of the bill becomes more likely, debates about how much to … Continue reading

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“Boobs for Burma: Can Sex Sell Human Rights?”

Great post at The Feminist Underground that will make you angry, but in a productive way. It’s a pretty fantastic blog generally so you might want to check out other posts there too.

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Best Wedding Dance Ever

Here. It starts getting good about 1:30 in…

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Good Reads

I Really Have to Stop Reading My Spam E-mail Wassup With the Pink Patch? Hummus Two parter: Why White Comics Don’t Get Barack and Why Black Comics Must Get Barack.

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Women Put Obama In Office: Will His Appointments Reflect This?

Women’s votes made all the difference, and Obama could not have won without us. See also, see also. Unfortunately, the majority of women also voted in favor of Proposition 8 in California, although in somewhat smaller numbers than men. We … Continue reading

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AutoAdmit Lawsuit Update

Here, from Leiter.

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Joan MacLeod Heminway and Sarah White, “WANTED: Female Corporate Directors (A Review of Professor Douglas M. Branson’s No Seat at the Table)”

Abstract: In his 2007 book No Seat at the Table, Professor Douglas Branson aptly describes how patterns of male dominance inherent in the legal structures of corporate governance reproduce themselves again and again to keep women out of executive suites … Continue reading

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Remember When Kozinski Called For The Investigation Into His Porn Site? Looks Like Something Fishy Is Going Down.

From Bloomberg News: San Francisco Court Puts Kozinski Complaint on Hold (Update1) By Cynthia Cotts Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) — An ethics committee of the federal appeals court in San Francisco issued an order to stop an investigation of a lawyer’s … Continue reading

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Canadians Seem Very Happy About Obama’s Victory

Spent yesterday in Sumter, South Carolina doing voter protection, but today I am in Canada, and everyone here I’ve spoken to is thrilled about Obama replacing Bush as US President. No more wars, is the fervent hope I keep hearing … Continue reading

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Congratulations to Bev Perdue, North Carolina’s first woman governor!

Charlotte Observer account of her victory here.   Excerpts below: Lt. Gov. Bev Perdue rode a national tide of Democratic support Tuesday to become the first female governor of North Carolina. Perdue, who has held office in Raleigh for nearly … Continue reading

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Because in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

To my friends and colleagues who rejoice this morning, with an extra special shout out to Susan Kuo and Danielle Holley-Walker: Yes We Did. As Tony Infanti has already noted, there is still a lot of work to do. But … Continue reading

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Valerie Frankel, “Thin Is The New Happy”

From the publisher: You’ve heard the phrase”the mirror is not your friend.”For Valerie Frankel, the mirror was so much more than”not a friend.”It was the mean girl who stole her lunch money, bitch-slapped her in the ladies’ room, and cut … Continue reading

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