Author Archives: Ann Bartow

Iraqi Women: An Interview with Nadje Al-Ali

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A Little Warmth For Your Heart

Remember this story? Now there is a video.

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“Iron Man: The Summer of Men”

The WOC PhD blog has a detailed review here, with spoilers. And pictures!

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Barbara Bennett Woodhouse, “Hidden in Plain Sight: The Tragedy of Children’s Rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate”

From the publisher’s website: Hidden in Plain Sight tells the tragic untold story of children’s rights in America. It asks why the United States today, alone among nations, rejects the most universally embraced human-rights document in history, the United Nations … Continue reading

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Immigration Court Ethics, Or Lack Thereof

Per this post at the Legal Ethics Forum: Judge Posner recently issued a scathing critique of the immigration court system. He criticized the competence of immigration judges and lamented the dearth of qualified lawyers to handle immigration matters. For more … Continue reading

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Major Scandal At West Virginia University

Mike Madison has the details.

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“Harvard Law Faculty Commits to Open Access to Scholarship”

Info/Law has the scoop. Here’s an excerpt: I’ve been sitting on this post for what seems like an eternity, but the news embargo has been lifted, and we’re all free to share the fantastic news from Harvard Law School, where … Continue reading

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“Facebook, the world’s second-largest social networking Web site, is adding more than 40 new safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies, attorneys general from several states said Thursday.”

That is the first sentence from this article, which also notes in pertinent part: The changes include banning convicted sex offenders from the site, limiting older users’ ability to search online for subscribers under 18 and joining an existing task … Continue reading

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Deana Pollard Sacks, “Intentional Sex Torts”

Now available for downloading here. The abstract: Intentional tort law generally protects personal autonomy and self-determination vigorously by requiring fair disclosure before consent to physical contact is considered voluntary and valid. A glaring exception exists relative to consent to sexual … Continue reading

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“Schlafly’s honorary degree: a travesty of a mockery of a sham”

That is the title of a post at Crooked Timber discussing the decision by Washington University in St. Louis to award Phyllis “There won’t be an ERA on my watch” Shlafly of the Eagle Forum You ought to head over … Continue reading

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Are Women Leaders Different?

Video of a   panel discussion featuring former San Jose City Councilwoman Cindy Chavez; business executive and political fund-raiser Lorraine Hariton; Morgan Family Foundation President and former California Senator Rebecca Q. Morgan; and Stanford Law Professor and Ethics Center Director, … Continue reading

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Rory Dicker, “A History of U.S. Feminisms”

From this website: “The History of U.S. Feminism is an introductory text designed to be used as supplementary material for first-year women’s studies students or as a brush-up text for more advanced students. Covering the first, second, and third waves … Continue reading

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Pregnancy Discrimination At Law Firms

Posts at Law and Letters, Concurring Opinions and at Workplace Prof Blog all discuss different aspects of a purported departure memo written by an associate at the San Francisco office of Paul, Hastings. The memo was initially posted at Above … Continue reading

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There are 795 (not including Michigan and Florida, whose super delegate votes do not count) total Democratic super delegates. How many are white? How many are women?

Anyone know? Some information is here. NB: The   majority of registered   voters are white, and I’d guess that the majority of super delgates are white as well. The majority of   registered   voters are female. Somehow I … Continue reading

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Law School In A Box?

Via. Do you suppose it comes with aspirin? Or bandages? Or weapons? Or snacks? Or arrogant pedantry? Pretty sure I’m not going to spend $15 to find out, but if you do, let me know. –Ann Bartow

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“And then there was one”

That’s the title of this overview of the bittersweet story of The Fultz Quads.

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“A Glimpse Into the Chaos: Learning About the Consequences of the War”

That’s the title of a really good post at The Feminist Underground.

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The Ten Most Influential Political Pundits in the U.S.?

The [U.K.] Telegraph thinks so. Notice anything they have in common? Via Echidne.

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From the Department of Potential Blog Ad Pitfalls

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Blawg Review #158 -“Midwives and the Law”

Here at the Mommy Blawg.

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Mildred Loving Has Died.

In an article that (oddly, in my view) refers to Loving as “the Matriarch of Interracial Marriage,” Yahoo News reports: Mildred Loving, a black woman whose challenge to Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling … Continue reading

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“Trying to expand fan base by marketing its players, the WNBA for the first time offers rookies lessons in fashion and makeup”

That’s an excerpt from this article, which also contains the following: … “It’s all contributing to how to be a professional,” league President Donna Orender said of the orientation classes. “I do believe there’s more focus on a woman’s physical … Continue reading

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The Temptation to View the Death of Eight Belles As Feminist Parable Is Overwhelming

Eight Belles is the horse who took second place in the Kentucky Derby yesterday, but broke both front ankles in the process, and was therefore immediately euthanized. She was the only filly in a field of twenty horses. A story … Continue reading

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Lesbos Residents File Suit Over Use of Term “Lesbian”

From this CNN.com article, sophomorically entitled “Lesbos ladies launch lesbian lawsuit”: … Three islanders from Lesbos — home of the ancient poet Sappho, who praised love between women — have taken a gay rights group to court for using the … Continue reading

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Surprising “Fox News” Error

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11th Circuit reverses a lower court’s summary judgment dismissing a gender-based employment discrimination claim by analogizing to race.

From The Blog of Legal Times: … In the case, the plaintiff, Ingrid Reeves, worked as the only female transportation sales representative in the Transportation Sales Section of C. H. Robinson Worldwide’s Birmingham, Alabama branch office. Reeves alleged in her … Continue reading

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Upcoming Conference at Brown: “Beyond Borders: Innovative Approaches to Combat Human Trafficking in the United States and Abroad”

May 24, 2008, 11:00 a.m. List Art Center Auditorium, 64 College Street, Providence According to the United Nations, over 12 million people worldwide are trafficked for forced labor or sexual exploitation every year. In the United States, an estimated 17,500 … Continue reading

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Intentional Sex Torts

Since 2005, four states have finally recognized that fraudulent inducement of sex is rape. Not just immoral, not just “boys being boys” behavior, but misappropriation of a woman’s personal right to choose who invades her body. Perhaps surprisingly, the first … Continue reading

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Dammit – DC Madam Hangs Herself

The DC Madam killed herself yesterday, about a week after being found guilty by a jury on prostitution-related charges of money-laundering (among other things).Among her alleged clients are Louisiana Senator David Vitter, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Randall Tobias, … Continue reading

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“Challenging Men’s Demand For Prostitution In Scotland”

Full report here (PDF). The research reflects a collaboration between the Women’s Support Project in Glasgow and Prostitute Research and Education in the U.S.. Links to press coverage of the report here. Via The Burning Times.

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May Is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Cool video here. Via Jenn at Reappropriate.

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Happy May Day

Celebrate by reading Historiann’s May Day post!

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Conference: “Prosecuting Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes in the ICC: Translating Promises into Reality” on October 14, 2008 at Washington College of Law, American University, Washington, D.C.

Prosecuting Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes in the ICC: Translating Promises Into Reality Date: 10/14/08 Times: 09:30AM – 04:00PM Description: Prior to the passage of the Rome Statute in 1998, women’s human rights activists engaged in a campaign to demand prosecution … Continue reading

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“Opponents carry injured home-run hitter around bases”

This story is pretty heartwarming: With two runners on base and a strike against her, Sara Tucholsky of Western Oregon University uncorked her best swing and did something she had never done, in high school or college. Her first home … Continue reading

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still black: a portait of black trans men

trailer here. more info here: Directed by experimental filmmaker Kortney Ryan Ziegler, still black is a feature-length documentary that explores the lives of six black transgender men living in the United States. Through the intimate stories of their lives as … Continue reading

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Storm Large on “Ellen” a couple of years ago: “The high heels nearly killed me.”

Here. A couple of fabulous clips of her singing: Here, here, here, here and here.

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Never More Than A Few Clicks Away

Supercynic writes: … I noticed that my post about how the Southeastern Conference’s website sucks because it takes a computer equivalent of Indiana Jones to find out the latest tennis results had an unusually high readership. It hit me that … Continue reading

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There is an “Anarchafeminist Channel” on YouTube.

Here. Via Screaming Into The Void.

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Watch Martha Nussbaum Talk With Bill Moyers About her newest book, LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE: IN DEFENSE OF AMERICA’S TRADITION OF RELIGIOUS EQUALITY.

Here. The transcript of the interview is here. Previous post about the book here. I got to take Martha Nussbaum on a tour of the Congaree Swamp when she gave a series of talks here a couple of years ago … Continue reading

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Does A Recent Article In The Yale Law Journal Pocket Part Deceptively Conflate Record Keeping And Censorship Intentionally?

A recent article in the Yale Law Journal Pocket Part does an insidious job of conflating a law requiring record keeping with government censorship in the context of pornography. Is the falsity intentional? The analysis certainly seems driven by a … Continue reading

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Viva La Feminista on Dr. Susan Wicklund

Dr. Susan Wicklund at Women & Children First and More on Dr. Susan Wicklund @ WCF

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Clip From Interview of Margaret Sanger By Mike Wallace on 9/21/57

See it here. Read the transcript here. Warning: Sexist cigarette ads ahoy, and Sanger’s “quip” about smoking at the end of the interview is disturbing. Actually, maybe “sad” is a better descriptor. I guess she felt she needed to plug … Continue reading

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“Data show extent of sexism in physics”

Experiment at Fermilab gave women fewer opportunities to present at conferences. Women are poorly represented in physics, making up just 10% of faculty in the United States, for example, but the reasons for this have proved contentious. Now a particle … Continue reading

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Nuxoll v. Indian Prairie School District: “”Be Happy, Not Gay” T-Shirt Protected By First Amendment

Seventh Circuit opinion, authored by Posner, here. Below, some excerpts: “The plaintiff is one of the students who disapprove of homosexuality. Some of them participate in a”Day of Truth”(see www.dayoftruth.org (visited Apr. 5, 2008)) held on the first school day … Continue reading

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“Bride Abduction” In Chechnya

According to this article, it’s both horrible and common.

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Most Depressing Blog Post I Read Today

So far, anyway: This. Why does the blogger worry that feeling upset about a “manager” father who is pressuring his 18 year old daughter into porn and prostitution means she is “not as progressive as [she] thought”? Coercion and manipulation … Continue reading

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“COLOR OF VIOLENCE: THE INCITE! ANTHOLOGY!”

From this site (where there is far more information): Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology presents the fierce and vital writing of 33 visionary radical women and trans people of color. These writers not only investigate the intersecting ways in … Continue reading

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I Wake Up Each Morning Believing It Is Possible To Support Obama Without Advocating Violence Against Clinton

But Supposedly Liberal Doods like Keith Olbermann make that difficult.

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Because Ultrafeminine Stereotypes “Offset The Evil”?

One weird and offensive marketing tool for a violent video game. [NB: You need to click on the pink pony to fully understand the premise.] (Warning – very creepy and alarming.)  

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“Exams”

Unless you are taking them, Laura Appleman’s post will make you laugh. Buy Propranolol Buy Theophylline Buy Nafcillin Buy Hydromorphone Buy Aminophylline Buy Olanzapine Buy Doxycycline Buy Isocarboxazid Buy Oxycontin Buy Digitalis Buy Colesevelam Buy Avodart Buy Vicodin Buy Cordarone … Continue reading

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