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Author Archives: Ann Bartow
“That Nucular Thing”
Or, why picking on Sarah Palin’s speech patterns is wrong.
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Revenge Porn
Jezebel overview here. I discussed revenge porn in this article, explaining why copyright law as currently configured doesn’t have much to offer victims, but could be changed so that it did. –Ann Bartow
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On Being Bad For Feminism’s Image
In this essay, author Monica Dux writes: While researching our book my co-author Zora Simic and I asked women what turned them off the feminist label. The most common answer was that it’s the man-hating, hairy-legged lesbian. In a way … Continue reading
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Nudity, Gender, Art and Politics
Traipse through any art museum and, though it was controversial in its time, you will see lots of paintings like this Manet: The men are clothed, the women are naked. Activist group The Guerilla Girls trenchantly observed: And it … Continue reading
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Do Women Hate Sarah Palin Because She Is “Too Pretty” and “Too Confident”?
Time Magazine thinks so. Well, one Time Magazine writer, and her editors and publisher, anyway. Here’s an excerpt: What the Democrats learned during the primaries and the Republicans might now be finding out the hard way, I learned at my … Continue reading
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Mary Dudziak on Women and Law Blogging
A twofer: Women and Blogging: what you can do right now at the Legal History Blog and cross-posted at Balkinization.
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Judge Sentences Porn Producer Paul Little, aka Max Hardcore, To 46 Months In Prison
From the Tampa Tribune: His pornographic persona, Max Hardcore, is all swagger and sadism – forcing women in his movies to do things that can’t be described in a family newspaper. But in federal court today, as he faced a … Continue reading
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“U.S. Judge Kozinski Accused of Ethics Breach by Lawyer Critic”
This article is a fairly detailed overview of the Kozinski porn story, written by Cynthia Cotts of Bloomberg News. And I am quoted in it. Cotts contacted me and asked if I would give her my opinion about some of … Continue reading
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IntLawGrrls is featuring a series on disability human rights.
Read it here.
Posted in Feminism and Law, Feminist Blogs Of Interest, Feminists in Academia, Sisters In Other Nations, Women's Health
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Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum tossed a lawsuit alleging ladies’ nights at nightclubs discriminate against men out of federal court in Manhattan on Monday. She said nightclubs can price their products as they wish because they’re not acting as representatives of the state.
Story here. It somewhat creepily notes:”The nightclubs said the prices charged to men aren’t so burdensome that they amount to denying them entry and male customers actually might benefit from ladies’ nights because so many women attend.” For an uncomfortable … Continue reading
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Where Feminism, Copyright Law and This Interminable Election Intersect
Above is a recent New Yorker cover mocking Sarah Palin. The drawing is a parody of one of the New Yorker’s most famous covers: It was drawn by the late Saul Steinberg, and titled “View of the World from 9th … Continue reading
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Inverview With Congressional Rep. Carolyn Maloney About Her New Book, “Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated”
Part one here. Part two here.
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Ali G Interviews Naomi Wolf
Here. Bonus interview with Sue Leece here.
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Back to School Knives
Guess the giant scary Back to School Spoons are sold separately. Via.
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Margot Gayle
From the NYT: Margot Gayle, who brought a cast-iron will : cloaked in Victorian gentility : to the preservation of 19th-century architecture, popularizing the historic preservation movement in its infancy and helping save SoHo at a time when bulldozers were … Continue reading
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Studies Find Link Between Talcum Powder and Ovarian Cancer
The American Cancer Society reports: A case-control study published in 1997 of 313 women with ovarian cancer and 422 without this disease found that the women with cancer were more likely to have applied talcum powder to their external genital … Continue reading
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Anne W. Eaton, “A Sensible Antiporn Feminsm”
Published in Symposia on Gender, Race and Philosophy (Spring 2008). Downloadable here. In addition: Commentaries by Patrick D. Hopkins, Rae Langton, Ishani Maitra, Laurie Shrage. Reply by A.W. Eaton. Via Feminist Philosophers.
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South Carolinian wins “genius” award.
2008 MacArthur Fellow Mary Jackson Mary Jackson is a fiber artist whose intricately coiled vessels preserve the centuries-old craft of sweetgrass basketry and push the tradition in stunning new directions. A descendent of the Gullah community of coastal South Carolina, … Continue reading
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The increasing irrelevance of grades, and what it might mean for women law students.
Both the percentage and actual number of enrolled women students has been dropping at the University of South Carolina School of Law, and at a number of other law schools I am aware of. Part of the explanation is that … Continue reading
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How to get the ABA Journal to broadcast your claim that your estranged spouse gave you an STD.
Mention it in divorce filings. Or in any lawsuit, probably, since the increasingly ATL-like ABA Journal thinks this is newsworthy. (Yes I know that by linking to the report I increase the exposure somewhat but it is already a “most … Continue reading
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“Child Centered Jurisprudence and Feminist Jurisprudence: Exploring The Connections And The Tensions” Friday, November 14, 2008 @ the University of Houston Law Center
From the Conference Website: This conference in November 2008 will explore the connections and the tensions between”feminist jurisprudence”and what might be called (in the language of June Carbone)”child-centered jurisprudence.”The experiences of American women have been entwined with their roles as … Continue reading
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“Two Women, Great Legacies”
That’s the title of Danielle Citron’s post at ConcOps about the passing of two great women journalists. Concurring Opinions was a solid law prof blog that got even better with the addition of the awesome Danielle! –Ann Bartow
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Sarah Palin’s Beauty Pageant Video
Egalia at Tennessee Guerilla Women points how here that blogs linking to Sarah Palin’s 1984 beauty pageant swimsuit competition are attempting to trivialize her for doing something traditionally feminine when she was young, using this HuffPo piece as an example. … Continue reading
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Study finds earnings for male-to-female transgender workers fell by nearly one-third after their gender transitions, but earnings for female-to-male transgender workers increased slightly.
Study here. The abstract: We use the workplace experiences of transgender people – individuals who change their gender typically with hormone therapy and surgery – to provide new insights into the long-standing question of what role gender plays in shaping … Continue reading
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Girls! Girls! Girls! Bitch Magazine’s “Feminist Response To Pop Culture” Is To Co-Sponsor A Strip Show With Hustler
Read about it here. And just click on the Hustler logo if you are in the market for hardcore porn such as Larry Flynt’s “Barely Legal” line that delightfully features women who look like children, or some of the charming … Continue reading
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Taina Bien-Aimé, “Still Time To Do The Right Thing” and pass the Wilberforce Act
Reposted from the Huffpo: As she poetically recounts her chilling life story in her recently published book, The Road of Lost Innocence, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery as a young girl in Cambodia. The reader is confronted with … Continue reading
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Obama’s “Faith, Family and Values Tour” to feature law prof who opposes same sex marriage
From Pam’s House Blend: The Christian Broadcasting Network is reporting that the Obama campaign next week will kick off”Barack Obama: Faith, Family, and Values Tour,”designed to woo the votes of left-leaning Catholics, progressive Evangelicals, and some conservative mainline Protestants. If … Continue reading
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Do These Posters Make You Want To Vote? Or Do They Fill You With Despair?
Nayeli Rodriguez observes at the XX Factor: Declare Yourself isn’t alone in its tendency to threaten and alienate its audience despite better intentions. The “Vote or Die” campaign that began in 2000 promotes its own violent message, particularly when organizer … Continue reading
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Feminist law prof glass ceilings
Inspired by recent events at my own institution as well as conversations with other feminist law profs I’ve run into at recent conferences, here’s a pattern I see – wonder if others experience this. One fem law prof summed … Continue reading
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Beverly Baines, “But Was She a Feminist Judge?”
Abstract: During her time on the bench, Justice Wilson refused to identify as a feminist. Her silence did not deter feminists from applauding many of her decisions. Nor did it preclude them from critiquing three opinions: Pelech, Morgentaler, and Hess. … Continue reading
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Today is the 27th Anniversary of Sandra Day O’Connor being sworn in as the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Nominated by President Ronald Reagan and unanimously approved by the Senate, Sandra Day O’Connor joined the Court on 25 September 1981 as its 102nd justice and first female appointee. –Sharon Sandeen
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Gay Marriage Has Been Legal In California For Over Four Months Now..
… so I thought I’d check in with my straight, married friends and see if they thought the institution of marriage had been irreparably damaged and FUBAR in the interim. After extensive surveying I’ve empirically ascertained that to everyone’s great … Continue reading
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“The 30 Percent Solution”
I’d guess that most regular readers of this blog will strongly disgaree with some of the assertions in this essay, I know I do, but y’all are generally either academics or folks with an academic (by which I mean “open … Continue reading
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Kozinski Porn Site Update
Back in July Karen Gullo of Bloomberg News reported: Five federal judges will probe possible ethics violations by U.S. Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski, head of a San Francisco-based appeals court, related to the posting of sexually explicit photos on the … Continue reading
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Naomi Cahn and June Carbone, “Lifting the Floor: Sex, Class, and Education”
Yet another terrific article from two of my favorite Feminist Law Profs! Here is the abstract: This paper was written for a conference on third wave feminism. Third wave feminism recognizes the importance of “raising the floor,” and this paper … Continue reading
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There is no anonymity in cyberspace, part whatever.
The authorities figured out who hacked Sarah Palin’s e-mail account quite easily. When law enforcement refuse to help women victimized by internet harassers and stalkers, it is because they don’t want to, not because they can’t. –Ann Bartow
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“New Questions on Women, Academe and Careers”
Scott Jaschik at Inside Higher Ed wrote an article with this title, in which he notes: In field after field, women either outperform or equal men : only to lag in key positions in academe (or in other careers that … Continue reading
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2008 World Stem Cell Summit in Madison, Wisconsin
This week stem cell scientists from across the globe are meeting at the University of Wisconsin at Madison to discuss a multitude of issues they face including the scientific, business, legal, ethical and regulatory issues these doctors, clinicians and researchers … Continue reading
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Naomi Cahn, “Accidental Incest: Drawing the Line – Or the Curtain? – For Reproductive Technology”
The abstract: This article calls for setting limits on the number of offspring born from any one individual’s gametes, and for continuing to sanction incest, even when it comes to adult, inter-sibling consensual behaviour. The article examines the issues of … Continue reading
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“A lawyer was suspended for more than a year for accepting nude dances from a stripper as partial payment for the legal fees she owed him.”
Yeesh… The linked article also notes: “While she agreed to the performances, the client contended he touched her inappropriately during those dances, and she went to police in 2002 with sexual assault allegations.” I can guess why he was never … Continue reading
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Statetris South Carolina
Statetris is an interesting game mixing aspects of the popular game ‘Tetris’ and geography. Instead of positioning the typical Tetris blocks, you position states/countries at their proper location. Play here.
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Video of Maya Angelou Introducing Michelle Obama In Greensboro, NC
Here. She notes that she supported Hillary Rodham Clinton in the primaries, but like Clinton, is working for Obama now. –Ann Bartow
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It Is About the Economy for Main Street as well as Wall Street!
The Social Security Administration released its 2008 Fast Facts and Figures report this month and given our current economic crisis and the tsunami of Boomers getting ready to retire the report is informative, important and a reminder of critical financial … Continue reading
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Is Pussy Galore a “Feminist Icon”?
I’d have to go with “no.”
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The Kip Tiernan Social Justice Fellowship
The Kip Tiernan Social Justice Fellowship honors the life-long work of the founder of Rosie’s Place. The Fellowship provides a unique and exciting opportunity for a woman to develop and carry out a special project that will further the mission … Continue reading
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