Author Archives: Ann Bartow

Photographs and Contextual Integrity

From the NYT: Several gay adult Web sites have posted photographs of teenage water polo players from several high schools in Southern California, a newspaper reported. Some of the pictures, of boys as young as 14, were displayed next to … Continue reading

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“on being a public defender: reasons prosecutors make me scream”

Interesting if depressing post with this title at Woman of the Law.

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“Supreme Court First: A Female Special Master”

From The Blog of Legal Times: The Supreme Court today quietly helped shatter a glass ceiling you may not have known existed by appointing the first female special master in the Supreme Court’s history. She’s Kristin Linsley Myles of San … Continue reading

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Judge Who Helped Found the Charleston School of Law and Serves on its Board of Advisors (Even Though It Is For Profit!) Denied New Term Due To Sexist and Racist Remarks …

… according to this account in The State. Below is an excerpt: A U.S. magistrate judge accused of making disparaging sexist and ethnic remarks was not reappointed Friday by the state’s U.S. District judges, according to sources familiar with the … Continue reading

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Handy For Emergencies

From here.

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“Female Shoes Are Finally Here!”

Gravity Defyers.

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Lemon Fresh?

If the ad graphics don’t look like a female body part to you, just keep walking and pretend you never read this.

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“Ben Tillman Statue in South Carolina”

In many respects it’s worse than the Confederate flag that flies nearby on the SC Statehouse grounds. Al Brophy has the story here, at the Legal History blog.

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“Bella Abzug” by Suzanne Braun Levine and Mary Thom

Bella Abzug: “How One Tough Broad From the Bronx Fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, Pissed Off Jimmy Carter, Battled for the Rights of Women and Workers, Rallied Against War and for the Planet, and Shook Up Politics Along the … Continue reading

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Because women are not autonomous beings capable of using their own judgment to choose a candidate on any basis other than gender. Because women routinely make their voting decisions based entirely on spite, or vengeance, or some other emotion. Because … Continue reading

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Because women are not autonomous beings capable of using their own judgment to choose a candidate on any basis other than gender. Because women routinely make their voting decisions based entirely on spite, or vengeance, or some other emotion. Because … Continue reading

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Because women are not autonomous beings capable of using their own judgment to choose a candidate on any basis other than gender. Because women routinely make their voting decisions based entirely on spite, or vengeance, or some other emotion. Because … Continue reading

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“Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female” by Frances Beal (1969)

Here, at the CWLU Herstory Website archive. Accessible here as well.

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Remember Hoping That Toe Removal For More Tolerable High Heel Wearage Was An Urban Legend?

In her essay Sex and the Stepford Wife, Katha Pollitt asked: … if women are free to be whatever they want, why are they still so obsessed with fitting narrow and rigid definitions of beauty? Feminism was supposed to send … Continue reading

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“The Ad Council and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are placing tiny T-shirts in dryers throughout the city urging laundry-doers to ‘Shrink a few sizes.'”

Via AdFreak, which notes: “The campaign, done pro bono by McCann Erickson, sends the fatties to HHS’s Smallstep site, where they are further encouraged to”shed those holiday pounds, reduce their risk for obesity and lead a healthy lifestyle,”according to the … Continue reading

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“Everyone should read Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, argues Toril Moi”

Guardian essay by Moi here, below is an excerpt: Everyone who cares about freedom and justice for women should read The Second Sex. Long before Amartya Sen, Beauvoir argued that abstract freedom (the right to vote, for example) will make … Continue reading

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The Condom Song

“This is an entertaining and educational video in Telugu on Condom usage, to prevent from sexually transmitted infections and HIV, from Nrityanjali Academy, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.” Watch it all the way through. There is a bit of repetition but … Continue reading

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Hell Is Freezing Over

It’s snowing here!  

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Anyone see a problem with the South Carolina Attorney General enforcing election laws while working as co-chair of John McCain’s state campaign?

Read more here.

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Yahoo Outage?

Can’t access the e-mail account for this blog for some reason. This will slow comment moderation and impair posting. –Ann Bartow

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Sometimes The Hypocrisy Of Supposedly Liberal Doods Is Surreal

1. Atrios links to a post by Media Matters calling Chris Matthews out for his sexism, which is in fact egregious. 2. When a photographer snaps Matthews wearing a petulant expression, what does Atrios title it? “Pissy Chrissy”   Because … Continue reading

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Twins Who Marry, II

This story has been the subject of much commentary and surely almost all is said. But this link (included in the Telegraph version of the story) reveals a different aspect of the situation, one that has a great deal to … Continue reading

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“Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: Life Stories from the Academy”

From the wonderful Historiann: If you are interested in reading more about how universities have changed in the past thirty years as women,  queer scholars, and  scholars  of color  have integrated (or infiltrated?) the faculty, see Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: … Continue reading

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People in Order, Ages 1 to 100, Banging A Drum

Much cooler than it sounds.

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What’s The Target?

From Adrants: Yup. we’re ready for it. Ready for everyone to tell us we’re reading way, way too much into this Target billboard that places a certain area of a woman’s body highly targeted by men right in the middle … Continue reading

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Congressional Rep Loiuse Slaughter: Letters to DoD and DoS Regarding KBR Rape Case

She writes: “I am asking the Department of Defense and the State Department about their efforts to address crimes against government contracted employees, like in the case against former KBR employee Jamie Leigh Jones.” Read the letters here. Heart has … Continue reading

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Martha Nussbaum, “Carr, Before and After: Power and Sex in Carr v. Allison Gas Turbine Division, General Motors Corp,” 74 U Chi L Rev 1831 (2007)

Accessible here. The first two paragraphs are below: “Sexual harassment doctrine owes its primary theoretical impetus to the work of Catharine MacKinnon, who convincingly argued that sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination. MacKinnon offered two different paradigms (the”difference”and … Continue reading

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Mary Anne Case, “All the World’s the Men’s Room,” 74 U Chi L Rev 1655 (2007)

Read it here, you will be absolutely riveted. Below are the first few paragraphs: “In August 2000, a panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of Audrey Jo DeClue’s complaint of hostile environment sexual harassment against … Continue reading

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“Lawyers, Blogs, and Money”

James Grimmelmann has an interesting mediation on advertising and blogs at The Laboratorium. I found it via Froomkin who has a somewhat different take on the issue. I find myself agreeing with Grimmelmann, with an added concern about transparency and … Continue reading

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Playboy Coopting Wonder Woman

Maybe whether or not Wonder Woman is an appropriate feminist icon could be debated, but I can’t imagine any feminist being pleased about this. Ugh. Update: For an interesting contrarian take on this issue see: The Wonder Woman Controversy: Is … Continue reading

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“The Soft Power of Barack Obama”

Jaya Ramji-Nogales has a post by this title here at IntLawGrrls.

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More Vote Supression In South Carolina

From a local newspaper: “Many polling places closed on primary day” Many South Carolina voters will be sent to new polling places on presidential primary day, as one-fifth of regular state polling places will be closed. The closed polls are … Continue reading

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Carnival of Feminists Number 51!

Here at Philobiblon!

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“How Porn Ruined Sex”

Anecdotal research at Jezebel, kinda explicit.

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“Tell MSNBC that Chris Matthews’ sexism has to go”

Via Feministing: Using overtly sexist language, he has referred to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) as a “she devil” and compared her to a “strip-teaser.” He has called her “witchy” and likened her voice to “fingernails on a blackboard.” He … Continue reading

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New Study On The Economics Of “Street Prostitution”

University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and coauthor Sudhir Venkatesh conducted a study which is based on surveys conducted with prostitutes and pimps in Chicago neighborhoods and incident data from the Chicago Police Department. Their focus seems to be on … Continue reading

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Nice “message of hope” you got there.

Obama’s campaign co-chair says Hillary was crying about “her appearance.”

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The Truthiness, Or Lack Thereof, of “The Heart Truth”

From Our Bodies, Our Blog: … Diet Coke and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute are teaming up to promote “The Heart Truth” campaign, which aims to raise awareness of women’s risk of heart disease. In 2002, The Heart … Continue reading

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Marc Bousquet, “How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation”

From this site: As much as we think we know about the modern university, very little has been said about what it’s like to work there. Instead of the high-wage, high-profit world of knowledge work, most campus employees : including … Continue reading

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