Author Archives: Ann Bartow

CFP: HADASSAH-BRANDEIS INSITUTE PROJECT ON GENDER, CULTURE, RELIGION AND THE LAW

UNTYING THE KNOTS; THEORIZING CONFLICTS BETWEEN GENDER EQUALITY AND RELIGIOUS LAWS, April 14-15 2008 at Brandeis University KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: DR. SHIRIN EBADI and PROFESSOR JODY WILLIAMS, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates and founders of the Nobel Women’s Initiative Throughout the world, … Continue reading

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Anita Allen, “Face to Face With ‘It’: And Other Neglected Contexts of Health Privacy”

The abstract: “Illness has recently emerged from the obscurity of medical treatises and private diaries to acquire something like celebrity status,”Professor David Morris astutely observes. Great plagues and epidemics throughout history have won notoriety as collective disasters; and the Western … Continue reading

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Today South Carolina Celebrates “Cockfest”

Do I make this stuff up? No I do not. –Ann Bartow

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Advice For Erwin Chemerinsky

Over at TaxProf Blog, Paul Caron is collecting blog post recommendations for the founding Dean of U.C. Irvine’s new law school. I contributed something here. Because I was given a strict 250 word limit, I didn’t mention bathroom parity but … Continue reading

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Which Two States Don’t Have Any Female Judges On Their Highest Courts?

According to this article: Indiana and Idaho.

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“The C-Section Epidemic”

Sometimes FLP commenter Patrick S. O’Donnell has a post about this up at the Medical Humanities Blog. You can find articles with the same approximate headline in mainstream newspapers going back twenty years, when the rates were actually lower. This … Continue reading

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“… The emails also revealed that MediaDefender probably was negotiating with the New York Attorney General’s office to allow them access to information about users accessing pornographic material.”

One more example of the confluence of copyright “enforcement,” pornography, and the complete absence of privacy on the Internets explained here and here.

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“The First and the Forced”: Indigenous and African American Intersections

This conference took place last fall, but most of the presentations were recorded and can be watched here. Via the Oh No a WoC PhD blog.

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The Yale Pocket Part Symposium on Internet Harassment Is Up

There is an overview entitled The Pocket Part, Internet Harassment. The contributions are listed below, with short excerpts. Hey, at least they found one written by a woman they were willing to publish, goodness knows that isn’t always the case. … Continue reading

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Pornography, Prostitution and “Liberals”

In August of 2000 the New York Observer published an interview with Larry Flynt that also included some quotes by Dennis Hof, owner of the “Moonlite Bunny Ranch” brothel in Nevada (I’m not going to link to this establishment’s web … Continue reading

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Don Hazen, “Pornography and the End of Masculinity”

I was surprised to read the beginning of this review essay. Hazen writes: In his new book, Robert Jensen forces the reader to face the music about the effects of a porn industry gone gonzo, and the need to reassess … Continue reading

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You Might Be A Feminist If…

Well this post sure beats a Jeff Foxworthy rant!

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Naomi Wolf on “The End of America …”

Naomi Wolf recently appeared on The Colbert Report to promote her new book, The End of America: A Letter of Warning to A Young Patriot. The book’s publisher asserts: In The End of America, Wolf gives voice to the cause … Continue reading

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Protecting Women Wasn’t Enough, But Now That There Is Evidence That Men Can Benefit Directly, Males May Begin Receiving HPV Vaccination

There is already evidence that HPV prevention would benefit gay men. The story posted here reports: The human papillomavirus (HPV) has been implicated as a cause of cervical cancer in women, but there’s another devastating form of cancer also linked … Continue reading

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“The Women Behind the Men” Are Still In The Background

That’s the title of Gail Collins’ column in today’s NYT, in which she describes the ways that women active in the civil rights movement were treated like second class citizens by men who were working for equality. Here is an … Continue reading

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The 10th Circuit dismissed an appeal of a federal judge’s decision that health care providers and others are not required under Kansas law to report underage sex between consenting adolescents.

Story here. Press release from the Center for Reproductive Rights here.

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Nicola Lacey, “From Moll Flanders to Tess of the D’Urbervilles: Women, Automony and Criminal Responsibility in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century England”

The abstract: In the early 18th Century, Daniel Defoe found it natural to write a novel whose heroine was a sexually adventurous, socially marginal property offender. Only half a century later, this would have been next to unthinkable. In this … Continue reading

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“Why Women Leave Academic Medicine”

Here’s a link to the Inside Higher Ed article with this title. There are some obvious parallels here between academic medicine and academic law. –Tracy McGaugh

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Above The Law Finds Hilarity In Law Firm Lactation Rooms

Yep, more humorless feminism. The jokey and idiotic ATL post is here, and naturally many of the comments are hideous. You are probably expecting the sexism, but maybe not the racism. I think lactation rooms are great and also important … Continue reading

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Bong Hits For Roberts

Over at Prawfsblawg, Jeremy Blumenthal reports that when Chief Justice Roberts visited Syracuse University a couple of protesters held signs saying “Bong Hits 4 Jesus,” one that included a case citation, and another’s said: “Roberts, Don’t Taser me, Bro!“

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Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, “Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection”

This book was published in 1999, but Aspazia at Mad Melancholic Feminista just posted an interesting review. There was a NYT review in January of 2000, and Salon.com published an interview with Hrdy about the book in December 1999. It … Continue reading

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Of The “Most Cited Scholars in Intellectual Property/Cyberlaw Since 2000,” Half Are Women!

Woohoo, I love my scholarly subject area! Here’s the list, as computed by Brian Leiter: 1. Mark Lemley (Stanford University): 2110 citations, age 41. 2. Robert Merges (University of California, Berkeley): 1280 citations, age 48. 3. Pamela Samuelson (University of … Continue reading

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Is The U.S. Ready For A Woman President?

Samantha Bee tackled that question here.

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Toys For Girls: Appearance, Shopping, Dating and Housework

Dr. Violet Socks writes: Whenever the conversation turns to ev-psych, some chump or two (or twenty) shows up to insist that any test score differences between male and female teenagers must reflect an underlying innate disparity between the sexes. Apparently … Continue reading

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45th Carnival of Feminists!

Up at Feminist Philosophers!

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“Nurture strikes back”

That’s the title of an article in the Economist that reports: Some sex differences that look biological are really cultural ONCE upon a time, the only ideologically acceptable explanations of mental differences between men and women were cultural. Any biologist … Continue reading

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Forgotten For Even A Second How Much Men Hate Us?

Me neither, but if you are feeling masochistic for some reason, read the comments thread here.

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National GLBT Resources

National GLBT Resources Advocate. An LGBT news website. Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (415) 861-KIDS Day of Silence Project: a student-led day of action where those who support making anti-LGBT bias unacceptable in schools take a day-long vow of … Continue reading

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SOUTH CAROLINA AND MIDLANDS AREA GLBT ORGANIZATIONS

SOUTH CAROLINA EQUALITY COALITION – statewide coalition of LGBT organizations and allies – www.scequality.org HARRIET HANCOCK COMMUNITY CENTER – state’s first GLBT community center (1108 Woodrow Street) – volunteer staff, home to support groups and educational efforts – www.scglpm.org or … Continue reading

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“If mothers ruled the world, there would be no god damned wars in the first place.”

That’s what Sally Field actually said in her Emmy acceptance speech. The Foxified version is here.

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“Batgirl” clip from 1966

Ooooof! Kapow! The sexism! And, best avoided if you are allergic to ham.

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Micro Enyzme Action from the 1970s

Watch here. Whew, when was the last time you saw men dominating a commercial for laundry detergent? And how did that football player get blood on his knee? –Ann Bartow

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“What a Y chromosome is worth”

From Am I a women scientist? I’ve been well, not forced, but strongly encouraged to join a study on women with children in academia and family leave policies. After three days of reading the literature, my assessment of my chances, … Continue reading

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Pink Solidarity Among Boys

The orginal story: ‘I’ve stood around too long’ Central Kings students wear pink to send bullies a message By IAN FAIRCLOUGH Valley Bureau CAMBRIDGE : Two students at Central Kings Rural High School fought back against bullying recently, unleashing a … Continue reading

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4th Annual Conference: “Prostitution, Sex Work, and the Commercial Sex Industry”

Another one of those conferences that don’t exist! Homepage is here.

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Melissa Farley, “Prostitution and Trafficking in Nevada: Making the Connections”

From this site: Prostitution and Trafficking in Nevada addresses the scope of the sex industry in Nevada, including human rights violations against women in the Nevada legal brothels. The book describes how the multibillion-dollar illegal sex industry in Las Vegas … Continue reading

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Is “Maureen Dowd” Deemed a “Progressive” by Media Matters For America To Alienate Feminists?

From this MMFA page: I sure don’t read Maureen Dowd as “progressive” but that is how she is categorized in this study of political bias in syndicated Op-Ed columns. Do the Supposedly Liberal Doods (44 out of 59 staff/advisors are … Continue reading

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“Bill Maher = Woman-Hating, Child-Hating Idiot”

You can read the post by this name here. Or you can read one entitled “Bill Maher is a Misogynistic Anti-Breastfeeding Pig” here.

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That U.C. Irvine Law School

Over at MoneyLaw (and also at her own blog) Belle Lettre provides background and a link round up of the Chemerinsky debacle, and Brain Leiter’s most recent post on the subject adds even more details. Yesterday Chemerinsky had an Op-Ed … Continue reading

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Sally Haslanger, “Changing the Ideology and Culture of Philosophy: Not by Reason (Alone)”

Haslanger writes in part: There is a deep well of rage inside of me. Rage about how I as an individual have been treated in philosophy; rage about how others I know have been treated; and rage about the conditions … Continue reading

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The Internet and Your Job

From this article in the NYT: Every summer for the last four years, e-mail security company Proofpoint has surveyed large companies about their Internet security anxieties and the measures they are taking to protect themselves. The findings, of course, are … Continue reading

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Goldman Family Publishes O.J. Simpson Book, “If I Did It,” To Punish O.J., But Inflicts A Lot of Pain On Nicole Brown’s Family As Well

The WaPo reports: … The book — in which Simpson wrote of how he might have killed Nicole Brown, his ex-wife, and Ron Goldman the night of June 12, 1994 — prompted so much negative reaction that the original publisher, … Continue reading

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Law Prof Opportunity!

UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS:WILLIAM S. BOYD SCHOOL OF LAW invites applications for at least one tenure-track Associate Professor or tenured Full Professor of Law position, with appointment to begin with the 2008-2009 academic year. We have substantial flexibility in … Continue reading

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Title IX Sexual Harassment Case Against The U. of Colorado Reinstated

On September 6th, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit reversed an appalling dismissal of a Title IX sexual harassment case, Simpson v. University of Colorado. Here are some excerpts from the AAUW’s “case history”: Lisa Simpson, former … Continue reading

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Women’s and Gender Studies Job at Rutgers, New Brunswick

The Department of Women’s and Gender Studies invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin Fall 2008, pending final budgetary approval. We seek an interdisciplinary scholar who specializes in U.S. Latina Feminism or Latin … Continue reading

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“Vote with Your Face: The Canadian Voter Identity Conundrum”

Read Feminist Law Prof Lolita Buckner Inniss’s post by this title at her blog: Comparative Racism and the Law–Canada/U.S.

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Human Trafficking and Slavery

Database that provides country-by-country ionformation here, via Black Looks, where Sokari writes: I read a report yesterday that there are thousands of African and South Asian migrants amongst the displaced in Lebanon. Unlike other foreign nationals from the Middle East … Continue reading

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“On Shame”

This post at Oh No a WoC PhD will really make you think.

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Upcoming Conference:”The New Face of Women’s Legal History”

Renowned legal and history scholars from across the nation will gather at The University of Akron School of Law on Oct. 19 for a constitutional law symposium titled”The New Face of Women’s Legal History.” The symposium’s broad theme will address … Continue reading

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Did you Know There Was A Women Philosphers Website?

If not, now you do! Via the Knowledge and Experience blog.

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