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Author Archives: Ann Bartow
Cripes Those Folks At The Yale Information Society Project Are Clueless, Or Something.
Via Concurring Opinions we learn that the Yale Information Society Project is hosting a Symposium on Reputation Economies in Cyberspace. Already notable for excluding women from its conferences, despite the fact that women are the majority of Internet users, the … Continue reading
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Cynthia Bowman, “Street Harassment and the Informal Ghettoization of Women,” A Retrospective
I can hardly believe that this terrific law review article was published almost 15 years ago. I was reminded of it when I stumbled upon this Salon essay by Debra Dickerson in the course of some research. Dickerson wrote: … … Continue reading
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The Hypocrisy of Unilever, Illustrated
When it is pushing Dove products through its Campaign For Real Beauty, Unilever is all about female empowerment and sisterhood, as in this ad entitled “evolution”, and this ad, “onslaught.” (NB: There is a decent parody of “evolution” here.) But … Continue reading
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“GENDER AND CLASS: VOICES FROM THE COLLECTIVE”
This full-day program, GENDER AND CLASS: VOICES FROM THE COLLECTIVE, will be held at the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City, on Thursday, January 3, 2008. The conference will feature an opening plenary, eight topical sessions (Children, Work, Care, … Continue reading
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“Tips to avoid lawsuits from holiday office parties”
From The Boston Globe: Holiday office parties can be a potential minefield for lawsuits so the international law firm Bryan Cave LLP is offering some helpful hints to employers who want to celebrate the season without ending up in litigation. … Continue reading
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Jim Chen’s South Carolina Bar Exam Scandal Trilogy of Posts
Part One Part Two Part Three May I take this opportunity to congratulate everyone who passed the most recent SC bar examination on the merits, through hard work, and offer encouragement to those who failed the exam but accepted this … Continue reading
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48th Carnival of Feminists
Here, at Feminist Fire.
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RECALCULATING! (You weak-bladdered loser…)
Some of you may have already guessed from the title of this post that I just returned from a long car trip, and used a GPS unit to navigate. Every time I deviated from the official directions, the clipped British … Continue reading
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Externalities Illustrated
Today’s NYT featires an article entitled At Jets Game, a Halftime Ritual of Harassment that reports: At halftime of the Jets’ home game against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, several hundred men lined one of Giants Stadium’s two pedestrian ramps … Continue reading
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The SC Supreme Court Explains Its Actions With Respect To The Bar Exam
Here. UPDATE: A local newspaper seems to retain some doubts.
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Michigan Feminist Studies
Michigan Feminist Studies invites submissions for its 2008 issue on the theme of “Sexuality & Reproduction.” Women’s sexuality and reproductive capabilities have long been an important topic for feminist researchers, theorists, and activists. This volume of Michigan Feminist Studies seeks … Continue reading
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On Being an Academic and a Mother
Via Feminist Philosophers, this essay entitled: “Making a Place for the Other: A Letter to My Daughter” by Janet A. Kourany of the University of Notre Dame, via the Fall 2007 APA Newsletter. Below is an excerpt: … I have … Continue reading
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How Not To Give A Pre-Exam Pep Talk
Advice from a 1L here. I remember receiving a pretty lousy pep talk as a 1L from a law prof who told a story about thinking she flunked an exam, freaking out and crying for days, but actually getting an … Continue reading
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More on the SC Bar Scandal
Yes, I think “scandal” is probably the correct word. The latest is here. For still more background, see this. –Ann Bartow
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Not With The Band
Every year I buy season’s tickets to the men’s basketball games, and reside in the nosebleed section, the faculty and staff seats where none of the rich fans would ever consider sitting. Tonight a better connected friend gave me his … Continue reading
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One Very Sad Story About Internet Anonymity and Mean Assholishness
Here. A follow up article at Wired contemplates the newspaper’s decision to “protect the privacy” of the accused bad actors here.
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“Sisters In Law,” on PBS November 27th
FROM THE FLP MAILBOX: I am writing from Women Make Movies, a non-profit distributor of independent educational media, to let you know about the upcoming of SISTERS IN LAW, a powerful documentary about two extraordinary African women who are determined … Continue reading
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Hammer v. University of Michigan’s School of Law
This blog asserts: In Hammer v. University of Michigan, Peter Hammer charges the University of Michigan Law School with anti-gay discrimination. Professor Hammer is the first openly gay professor to be considered for tenure at the University of Michigan Law … Continue reading
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More About The South Carolina Bar Examination Situation
As noted previously, circumstances related to the grading of the recent South Carolina Bar are troubling, as reported recently by the ABA Journal. One blog provides a sourced chronology of events here. Self described “ethics watchdogs” have not publicly taken … Continue reading
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“Federal Judge Orders Anti-Abortion Extremist to Remove Threats to Clinic Staff from Website”
From Law.com: A federal judge ordered an anti-abortion activist to remove Web site postings that authorities said exhorted readers to kill an abortion provider by shooting her in the head. District Court Thomas Golden granted an injunction Nov. 8 seeking … Continue reading
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“1.8 million pages of federal case law to become freely available.”
“Public.Resource.Org and Fastcase, Inc. announced today that they will release a large and free archive of federal case law, including all Courts of Appeals decisions from 1950 to the present and all Supreme Court decisions since 1754. The archive will … Continue reading
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Martha Nussbaum Speaks With Akbar Gangi
Chicago Public Radio has a project called Chicago Amplified, “a Web-based audio archive” that features a conversation with Akbar Gangi, a prominent Iranian political dissident, and Martha Nussbaum. Listen here.
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Well I Suppose This Was Inevitable
You can read all about them here. Via Arse Poetica, who notes: “Maybe I’ll use them for dog poop or something equally fitting.” –Ann Bartow
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On Not Looking Like A Law Professor
Read Kevin Maillard’s post at Blackprof here. Been there. Been there so often I wrote about it too (see page 19), but not nearly as engagingly. –Ann Bartow
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Creepiest Wonderbra Commercial Yet
Here. Other contenders for the title include this and this and this.
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“Hefner expresses a mixture of bewilderment and bitterness about feminists’ longtime criticism of his magazine, adult-only networks, Web entertainment, videos and Playboy Clubs staffed by women in revealing costumes.”
That’s a sentence from this article about Playboy’s 50th Anniversary. Here is a longer excerpt: … At the same time that the company is adding harder-core material to its TV networks and Web sites, the anniversary issue trumpets the Playboy … Continue reading
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“Manufacturing Dissent,” A Documentary About Michael Moore
Movie website here. Interview with Co-Director Debbie Melnyk in two parts, here and here, chock full of feminist critique.
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From the Department of Life Is Strange: The Documentary Filmmaker Who Pornified Torture is Now Criticizing Fox For Pornifying the News
Via The Garance, Robert Greenwald, who via Brave New Films produced this rather disgusting spectacle, has produced this video clip, which “argues that all FOX shows use gratuitous sexual images : mainly women in bikinis, from the look of it, … Continue reading
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“The In-Between Woman” by Cathleen Schine, a review of “Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories,” by Katha Pollitt
In the NY Review of Books. The review is an interesting read, and I learned of it via the terrific Nancy McClernan, who astutely writes: … I’m a long-time fan of Pollitt but one thing that tends to annoy me … Continue reading
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Study finds female U.S. corporate directors out-earn males, but are also vastly outnumbered by them.
From this article: … Female directors in corporate America earned median compensation of $120,000, based on the most recently available pay data, compared with $104,375 for male board members, [for profit] research group The Corporate Library said in its annual … Continue reading
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AutoAdmit Law Suit Updates
1. From Brian Leiter. 2. From Salon, via Maggie Chon.
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South Carolina Bar Examination Weirdness
Five days after releasing the results of last July’s Bar Exam results, the South Carolina Judicial Department decided that 20 additional bar takers should pass. This was the first time that graduates of the new Charleston School of Law could … Continue reading
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Pippa Will Make You Laugh About A Bumpersticker That Might Otherwise Make You Cry
Here. For a humorless feminist, she sure is funny.
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“How many lesbians does it take to sell a t-shirt?”
Joanna Whitehead published an essay with this title at the f-word. Below is an excerpt: … Femme-tastic girl-on-girl action is a staple of made-for-men porn, graces the covers of most of the ‘lads’ weeklies and is frequently practiced by adolescent … Continue reading
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Stacy Malkan, “Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry”
From this website: …The book reveals the toxic truth about everyday personal care products, and offers an insider’s view of the campaign to get the cosmetics industry to use safer ingredients. Shockingly, toxic chemicals are also widely used in children’s … Continue reading
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The Catalogs That Are Filling My Mailbox Feature Some Odd Things
Dinosaur Replica The 14 M.P.H. Cooler The Pie Gate Pepper Spray For Squirrels –Ann Bartow Update: Eric finds another example.
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Eight Australian teenage boys who sexually assaulted a 17-year-old girl, filmed it, and distributed it as pornography will not serve time.
Full story here. One quick excerpt: The judge said the victim had organised to meet two of the boys at a Werribee train station on the day of the attack and had no idea a group of at least 11 … Continue reading
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“It is dangerous to stand up to a military dictatorship, but more dangerous not to.”
That’s a quote from Benazir Bhutto’s op-ed in today’s NYT. She also writes: … Opposition party members, lawyers, judges, human rights advocates and journalists have been rounded up by the police without charge. The press has been seriously constrained. The … Continue reading
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Sex Trafficking Conference
April 2 – 4, 2008, South Texas College, McAllen, TX. More information here.
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New Carnival of Radical Feminists!
Up at Angry for a Reason.
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Scary…
This and this. Via Eric Muller, who would be an excellent lawyer to have during tough times. –Ann Bartow
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Sexual Assault and the Military
The infamous Tailhook convention, during which 83 women and 7 men reported sexual assaults by military aviators, took place in 1991. See also. Twelve years ago newspapers like the San Francisco Chronicle decried the high rates of sexual abuse … Continue reading
IRANIAN WOMEN’S RIGHTS DEFENDER SENTENCED TO LASHINGS, PRISON
Read more here, and here.
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Would Immigration Laws Be Different If Women Ruled The World?
This study suggests the answer is yes. And in today’s NYT, this article illustrates why that might be important. Entitled “Drawing a Line Between Enduring Harm and Legitimate Fear,” it explains that a culture of forced marriage and genital circumcision … Continue reading
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Supposedly Liberal Dood Bully Bloggers Try To Silence Criticism of Porn by Democrat
To suggest anything negative about porn is to automatically trigger an orchrestrated freak out by supposedly liberal doods who are trying to bully themselves into control of the “progressive” political discourse. Atrios writes: The Great Porn Controversy of Aught 7 … Continue reading
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“David Horowitz, Feminist?”
That’s the title of this Katha Pollitt column, which deconstruct’s Horowitz’s efforts to slur academic feminists as at least tacit supporters of “Islamofascism.”
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