Author Archives: Ann Bartow

Media Matters Notices Maureen Dowd Uses Gender Pejoratively

From here: Media Matters for America review of Maureen Dowd’s columns since the beginning of 2007 reveals that Dowd frequently characterized Sen. Hillary Clinton as masculine, while portraying Sen. Barack Obama and John Edwards as feminine. By contrast, Dowd rarely … Continue reading

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Michelle Obama Watch

At What About Our Daughters.

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Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit Is Running A Misogynist Porn Site

As David Cohen noted below. Details here. He is not ethically competent to hear obscenity cases, I don’t think. He is trying to get his son to take the rap, apparently, and shift responsibility. I don’t buy it and I … Continue reading

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NY Gov’t Leaders, Activists Urge Strong Senate Bill to Curb Human Trafficking

The following is an excerpt of a press release from Rep. Maloney in December 2007: Today, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens), New York City Council Member Helen Sears (D-Jackson Heights), and other leaders in the fight against human trafficking rallied … Continue reading

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Stop Violence against Women website looking for volunteers!

The Advocates for Human Rights is seeking volunteers to create content for a website that is accessed by people all over the world. The Stop Violence against Women website (StopVAW) is an online resource with more than 4,000 pages of … Continue reading

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Katherine M. Franke, “Longing for Loving”

The abstract: Post-Lawrence efforts to secure marriage equality for same sex couples must be undertaken, at a minimum, in a way that is compatible with efforts to dislodge marriage from its normatively superior status as compared with other forms of … Continue reading

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“NOMAS supports Reauthorization of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, HR 3887”

The National Organization of Men Against Sexism gets it. The organization stands with decent people everywhere in opposing human trafficking, and affirms the following: The U.S. law addressing the crime of Sex Trafficking, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act 0f 2000, … Continue reading

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First Circuit writes in Cook v. Gates: “We are convinced that Lawrence recognized that adults maintain a protected liberty interest to engage in certain ‘consensual sexual intimacy in the home.'” But, still finds “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Constitutional

Cook v. Gates was the second challenge to the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy of the U.S. Military decided after Lawrence. Yesterday in Cook v. Gates the First Circuit held in pertinent part: There are at least four reasons for … Continue reading

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“Max Hardcore” Convicted On Obscenity Charges

This is notable because I think it may be the only non-child-pornography obscenity conviction obtained by the Bush Justice Department during the past seven plus years. The indictment came down just over a year ago, and can be viewed here. … Continue reading

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Would Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius Make A Good Veep?

Fred Vincy at Stone Court thinks so.

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“Matthew J. Bruccoli, 76, Scholar, Dies; Academia’s Fitzgerald Record Keeper”

From the NYT: Matthew J. Bruccoli, whose biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald and outpouring of scholarly essays and critical editions made him the dean of Fitzgerald studies in the United States, died at his home in Columbia, S.C., on Wednesday. … Continue reading

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This Blog Has Been Googlebombed.

Up until fairly recently, googling “Feminist Law Professors” or “Feminist Law Profs Blog” or the like returned this blog as the first or close to first search result. Now the blog itself doesn’t come up on the first ten result … Continue reading

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“Adrienne Maree Brown of the Ruckus Society on Media Justice, Election Protection and the Issue of Race in the 2008 Election”

Read the transcript of her Democracy Now! interview by Amy Goodman here. Or watch or listen to it, via links here.

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“The Most Ridiculous Girl Gadgets”

Link to NPR story by this name here. At Jezebel Jessica Grose notes that gadgets that are marketed to women are usually “cute” and “pink.” There is nothing wrong with the color pink per se, but it sure facilitates the … Continue reading

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Summer Nonlegal Reading Suggestions – Fiction Edition

Below are some relatively fast reads, with a strong preference for female authors. It’s just a somewhat random list of books I have read within the last couple of years I really liked: 1. Anything at all by Carol Shields. … Continue reading

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Feminism and FGM

Interesting post here at Womanist Musings.

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“Hands up if you’ve experienced street harassment”

That’s the title of this post at the f-word and it has attracted a lot of comments.

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So Now The Sexist Hillary Bashing Susbsides And The Sexist Michelle Bashing Ramps Up

Of course, sexist Michelle bashing has been occurring already. Now this post at What About Our Daughters reports about an Internet rumor involving Michelle. Michelle isn’t above criticism any more than any other member of Team Obama, or Team Anybody, … Continue reading

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Human Trafficking, Coercive Sex and Feministing

I’m having a difficult time understanding this post at Feministing. As far as I can tell, the post author prefers that the federal government NOT “waste time” investigating cases where pimps claim that trafficked, prostituted people are “free to leave.” … Continue reading

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Ruining a Law Student’s Life for Fun and Profit?

Paul Gowder is right.

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Melissa McEwan’s “For the Record”

A very powerful post appeared at Shakesville a couple of days ago. Since I don’t think I can excerpt if effectively I’ve reposted the entire thing here. I hope Liss doesn’t mind and if she does I will remove it … Continue reading

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“The Girl Effect”

The Girl Effect overview video, viewable here. Affiliated website here. And see also. Via Froomkin and here. Edited to add: Shorter “Girl Effect” – if we start treating women like human beings maybe they will clean up some of the … Continue reading

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A parental notification ballot measure was certified last week for the California state ballot in November.

The proposed measure would amend the California constitution to require parental notification and a 48-hour waiting period before allowing a minor to obtain an abortion. Via.

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I Don’t Believe In “I Believe” License Plates

As I told Adam Hochberg. More information here.

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Do Men Often Order You To “Smile”?

“Smile On A Stick” might be a useful solution.

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“The Women” The Movie

Trailer here. Article about why it has not been released here. Via Jezebel.

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Are Blogs Bad News?

Law profs Cass Sunstein and Eugene Volokh debate this here.

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Feminist buttons circa 1968 – 1972

From here!

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“Firm’s ‘Ever Argue With a Woman?’ Ad Provokes Debate on Stereotypes”

From the ABA Journal: Do men and women argue differently? And does that make a difference in the way they work as lawyers? That’s the suggestion of an ad by a women-owned Buffalo, N.Y., law firm that is attracting notice. … Continue reading

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Sophia Z. Lee “Hotspots in a Cold War: The NAACP’s Postwar Workplace Constitutionalism, 1948-1964”

Abstract: Throughout the Cold War 1950s, the NAACP sustained an ambitious campaign for African-American workers’ constitutional right to join unions and access decent jobs. Surprisingly, it did so not in the courts, but in executive branch agencies and committees. Blending … Continue reading

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Deborah Rhode and Christopher J. Walker, “Gender Equity in College Athletics: Women Coaches as a Case Study”

Abstract: As Title IX celebrates its thirty-fifth anniversary, many have noted its enormous positive effect on women’s sports. But an unintended and too-often neglected byproduct is that as opportunities for female students have increased, opportunities for female professionals have declined. … Continue reading

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Passive Aggressive Notes Dot Com

In case your life is lacking adequate free floating conflict and duress.

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Op-Ed by Margaret M. Russell and Stephanie M. Wildman: Who Speaks For All Women?

Who speaks for all women? The maelstrom following the recent endorsement of Barack Obama by NARAL (the National Abortion Rights Action League) dramatically pumped up the volume of a months-old debate among women: namely, can a true women’s rights supporter … Continue reading

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Ann Bartow, “Pornography, Coercion, and Copyright Law 2.0”

Abstract: The lack of regulation of the production of pornography in the United States leaves pornography performers exposed to substantial risks. Producers of pornography typically respond to attempts to regulate pornography as infringements upon free speech. At the same time, … Continue reading

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“Justices Favor Workers in Cases of Bias Retaliation”

Linda Greenhouse report in the NYT: The Supreme Court on Tuesday adopted a broad reading of two federal civil rights laws to protect employees from retaliation when they complain about discrimination in the workplace. By margins of 7 to 2 … Continue reading

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“Free Speech & the Menace of Hysteria”

I recently returned from a conference where one of the panels I spoke on concerned “hate speech” and the other addressed related topics. The audience skewed heavily libertarian, but the conversations sparked by the panels still seemed fairly productive. However, … Continue reading

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“CFP: Spilling Over: A Fat, Queer Anthology”

Working Title: Spilling Over: A Fat, Queer Anthology Editor: Jessica Giusti, Feminist Studies Ph.D. Student, University of Minnesota Contact: spillingover@gmail.com Submission Deadline: December 1, 2008 Despite the attention given by queer studies to the materiality of bodies and the cultural … Continue reading

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“The Invention of Race”

Interesting post with this title at 3quarksdaily, below is an excerpt: … There has likely always been some conception of the way in which organisms fit their environment, whether this fit is seen as one fixed from time immemorial by … Continue reading

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More Rebecca Walker

In addition to her insights about Barack Obama destroying feminism for its own good (with multiple part analogizing of feminism to Wal-Mart), now Rebecca talks about how Alice Walker was a terrible mother and it is mostly feminism’s fault. This … Continue reading

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The Sexism In The Democratic Primary

Erica Barnett compiled just a small sample of the slurs against Clinton MADE BY DEMOCRATS, writing: I’ve said it before–but because some Slog readers seem to still think I believe any attack on Clinton is a sexist attack, I’ll say … Continue reading

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Strawberry Flavor Gummy Bacon

Weird, (and kind of disgusting) yes. But not nearly as strange as this.

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“Ohio Northern University awards bachelor’s degree to canine”

Kind of an oddball story, from here: A well-trained golden retriever will receive a bachelor’s degree from Ohio Northern University today along with the rest of the graduating class. Zeeke, a 1-year-old dog, will earn his bachelor’s of science degree … Continue reading

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Guess What “How To” Advice This Photo Advertises…

Answer here. And no, I do not think that is a cherry tomato. Via.

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“Project: Canadian Club – Your Mom Had Groupies”

Hooray for feminist subvertising! Take that, Canadian Club. Via the f-word.

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On Footbinding

Heart has a post here, with photos.

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Target: Women (Yoghurt Edition)

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Margalynne Joan Armstrong & Stephanie M. Wildman, “Teaching Race/Teaching Whiteness: Transforming Colorblindness to Color Insight”

Abstract: This Article argues that whiteness operates as the normative foundation of most discussions of race. Legal educators often overlook the role of whiteness in the law school setting and in law more generally. Identifying and understanding whiteness should be … Continue reading

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Catharine MacKinnon Will Receive An Honorary Doctorate from Hebrew University

From here: Leading international human rights advocate Prof. Catharine MacKinnon is to receive an honorary doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in recognition of her work in advancing gender equality. She will receive the honor at the opening Convocation … Continue reading

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Moe at Jezebel Asks: How Many Professors Do You Actually Still Think About?

Here. Cuss word warning, if you are the linguistically sensitive type.

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New Blog: “Care Talk”

Ingrid Robeyns notes at Crooked Timber: Nancy Folbre, who is widely considered to be one of the most knowledgeable economists on issues of care work, has recently started a new blog, called Care Talk. It’s a research blog that aims … Continue reading

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