Author Archives: Ann Bartow

On Bullying in the Academic Workplace

Check out Historiann’s posts here and here.

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“Very Young Girls”

A documentary: Very Young Girls is a documentary film that chronicles the journey of young women through the underground world of sexual exploitation in New York City. A 14-year-old girl is lured from her home, beaten, raped, held captive, and … Continue reading

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“10 Fatal Online Dating Errors That Men Make”

Below are excerpts from the Top 10 email turnoffs for women in bold, with a bit of editorialization: 1. Don’t ask her how much she weighs. Apparently some people don’t like getting this question from strangers. Go figure. 2. Don’t … Continue reading

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Continuing the Air Travel Theme: Hang On To Those Laptops On Your Way To Conferences!

PC World reports: Some of the largest and medium-sized U.S. airports report close to 637,000 laptops lost each year, according to the Ponemon Institute survey released Monday. Laptops are most commonly lost at security checkpoints, according to the survey. Close … Continue reading

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Flying With a Young Child This Summer? Here’s a Book To Buy.

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Obama Newly Embracing Abortion Restrictions?

From the ABC News Blog Legalities: … In a recent interview, Obama appears to back away from his long-stated positions on abortion (and a proposed federal abortion rights law he had co-sponsored), repudiate 35 years of accepted Supreme Court rulings … Continue reading

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Announcing Women in International Economic Law, a new global organization in international law

Women in International Economic Law, a new global organization in international law, will hold its organizational meeting from 1:30 to 3 pm on Tuesday 15 July, in conjunction with the inaugural meeting of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) … Continue reading

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“It seems the ability we’re so fond of calling talent or even genius arises not from innate gifts but from an interplay of fair (but not extraordinary) natural ability, quality instruction, and a mountain of work.”

That is a sentence from here, via Feminist Chemists, who posted the following: This is a great article from New Scientist, which summarizes years of research on how to be a genius. Apparently, having an extraordinarily high IQ is not … Continue reading

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Ruminations on being American

By the terrific Siva Vaidhyanathan, here.

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“Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled.”

BBC account here. We don’t embed YouTube clips here at FLP but we do link to them sometimes. Hope checking them out hasn’t gotten anyone in trouble. The Order is accessible here. The court apparently concluded that the Video Privacy … Continue reading

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Feminism and Choice, a Dialogue.

Here, at the Feminism 101 blog. Below is an excerpt from the first comment: I think it’s pretty clear that most people– including strong, intelligent people– tend to prefer certain choices if they are positively reinforced by society. It’s not … Continue reading

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“Doris Lessing Q&A”

Here. Excerpt: The Nobel committee described you as the “epicist of the female experience.” Do you agree with that? Well, they had to say something. But do you agree with it? No. I can just see somebody sitting there thinking, … Continue reading

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The Bush Administration Hates Poor Women Who Have Sex, Voluntarily Or Not

It is why Bush “has decided for the seventh year to withhold funds allocated to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which conducts global work on issues such as reducing obstetric fistula, increasing access to contraception and family planning, HIV … Continue reading

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Law School Rankings By USNews: Does Cheating Benefit or Harm Women?

US News is considering altering the way “student quality” is measured for rankings purposes by including the LSAT scores of part time students, as is described here: The first idea is that U.S. News should count both full-time and part-time … Continue reading

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Obscure Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Novels

List here, where you can vote for the Top Ten. Via Feminist Dracona.

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“Poverty is one reason so many Yemeni families marry their children off early. Another is the fear of girls being carried off and married by force. But most important are cultural tradition and the belief that a young virginal bride can best be shaped into a dutiful wife, according to comprehensive study of early marriage published by Sana University in 2006.”

That’s a paragraph from this heart wrenching account of young girls forced into marriage.

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Martha T. McCluskey, “How Queer Theory Makes Neoliberalism Sexy: Right-Wing Economic Politics and the Queer Challenge to Feminism”

Abstract: Some strands of queer theory have echoed conservative law-and-economics (neoliberalism) in criticizing feminism’s turn to the state and to moral principle to solve problems of dependency and dominance. But on closer analysis, queer anti-statism and anti-moralism itself relies on … Continue reading

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The Op-Ed Project

Katharine Mieszkowski at Salon writes: Here’s a dismal fact: There are fewer female bylines on the Op-Ed pages of the nation’s major newspapers, as a percentage, than there are women serving in the U.S. Senate, according to Bob Sommer, a … Continue reading

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On Backlash

Katha Pollitt says backlash against feminism is “crackling up a storm”. Kira Cochrane says the same thing is happening in the UK. And Dodai at Jezebel writes: Here’s a fun exercise: Think of 5 celebrities you love, and 5 celebs … Continue reading

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About Those PUMAs

PUMAs are Democrats who supported Clinton but oppose Obama’s candidacy and wish to see him defeated. I have no idea how many true PUMAs there are. Certainly Republicans may be distorting or manipulating the online PUMA presence for their own … Continue reading

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The American Civil Liberties Union has opened an office in South Carolina.

According to this announcement, and this one as well, which notes: The American Civil Liberties Union will announce the opening of its new South Carolina Office July 2 at a press conference and ceremonial ribbon-cutting that will include Charleston Mayor … Continue reading

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AT&T v. Hulteen

Anya Prince at the NWLC’s Womenstake blog reports: Before the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) of 1978 clearly made such practices unlawful, AT&T gave substantially less leave for pregnancy than for other short-term disabilities. Today, the women who were treated unequally … Continue reading

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Getting Coffee, Getting Stereotypes

A recent opinion in the Eastern District of PA granted summary judgment in a sex discrimination (and harassment) case for an employer who fired a female receptionist who refused to get her two male supervisors coffee every day at 3pm. … Continue reading

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One Million Page Loads and Other Disasters

For those of you who don’t follow folk music, the post title is a reference to this. The occasion is one million page loads for this blog, according to the stat counter at the bottom of the page. Wahoo! Thanks … Continue reading

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LIT 101 CLASS IN THREE LINES OR LESS.

Via McSweeney’s. My favorite: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C.S. LEWIS: Finally, a utopia ruled by children and populated by talking animals. THE WITCH: Hi, I’m a sexually mature woman of power and confidence. C.S. LEWIS: Ah! Kill … Continue reading

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Gay Marriage Support and Opposition By The Numbers

A overview of twenty plus years of polling data is available here.

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“Gardasil Not Approved for Women Over 26”

From the Feminist Daily News: The Food and Drug Administration denied Merck and Co Inc’s application to expand Gardasil use to women over the age of 26 on Wednesday. The FDA cited pending issues with the vaccine that could not … Continue reading

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“Don’t you put it in your mouth”

Weird yet somewhat hilarious (if you are demented) PSA. And see also: Treat your mother right. Don’t mess with that mother.

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