Author Archives: Ann Bartow

Opportunities to Educate about International Human Rights Norms on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights” – Article 1, Universal Declaration of Human Rights If your university or organization is preparing an event to mark Human Rights Day this December 10th, the anniversary of … Continue reading

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Kevin Noble Maillard and Janis L. McDonald, “The Anatomy of Grey: A Theory of Interracial Convergence”

Here is the abstract: This article offers a theory of racial identity divorced from biological considerations. Law fails to recognize the complexity of racial performance and identity, thus categorically simplifying a perceived polarity of black and white. Ground-breaking scholarship addressing … Continue reading

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The Equality State

The Wyoming Quarter is out. Via Is That Legal? Wyoming was the first state to grant women the right to vote in 1869.

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Edwidge Danticat, “Brother, I’m Dying”

Writing in the NYT, Jess Row gave Danticat’s new book a great review. You can preview the first chapter of “Brother, I’m Dying” here. I look forward to reading the work, as I thought Danticat’s “Krik, Krak,” was brilliant. –Ann … Continue reading

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“Mujeres Making Movies”

From Colorlines: … Chica Luna’s signature program has become the F-Word, a multimedia justice project in New York City for 16-25-year-olds across the racial, sexual, economic, and linguistic spectrum. For five months, the young women learn about screenwriting, directing, producing, … Continue reading

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Five Books About Katrina

Reviewed in an essay called “The Full Force of Black Pain” by Vijay Prashad, at Colorlines.

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Riverbend Blogs That She Is Now In Syria

Read her post here. Her previous posts have been compiled into two books: this one and this one.

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Pro-Choice Senators Vote To Overturn Global Gag Rule

NARAL account here. LA Times report here, which notes: Defying a White House veto threat, the Democratic-controlled Senate voted Thursday to overturn a long-standing ban on U.S. funding for overseas family planning groups that support abortion. The vote was 53-41, … Continue reading

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Author Madeleine L’Engle Has Died

Biographical information about L’Engle can be found here and here. Obituaries are online here and here. I loved her “Time Quintet” very much. –Ann Bartow

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Conference Announcement: “Reconstructions: Historical Consciousness and Critical Transformation”

The University of Cincinnati College of Law presents the Inaugural Symposium of the Freedom Center Journal: Reconstructions: Historical Consciousness and Critical Transformation Friday, October 26, 2007 at the University of Cincinnati and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. This inaugural … Continue reading

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“Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.”

So says writer Ian McEwan in this Guardian article. The NPR website currently hosts an op-ed by Eric Wiener entitled “Why Women Read More Than Men” which reports: Among avid readers surveyed by the AP, the typical woman read nine … Continue reading

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Consider Joining the Planned Parenthood Pill Patrol!

From this site: Every day in America, women are forced to play the lottery when they walk into their neighborhood pharmacies and ask for Plan B emergency contraception (EC). Planned Parenthood is launching a nationwide campaign to protect women’s health … Continue reading

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Three Carnivals!

The 44th Carnival of Feminists at the Reproductive Rights Blog. The 5th Carnival of Radical Feminists at Women’s Space/The Margins. The 30th Carnival Against Sexual Violence at Abyss2hope.

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“Enemies of Happiness”

From the FLP mailbox: I am writing to you from Women Make Movies—a non-profit media arts organization and the world’s leading distributor of independent films by and about women—to let you know about the highly anticipated national broadcast of A … Continue reading

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“Top Ten Hillary Clinton Campaign Promises”

The Letterman version – read them at Unapologetically Female.

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Robert Jensen, “Getting Off: Pornography & the End of Masculinity”

Robert Jensen, a journalism professor at the University of Texas, has written a new book, Getting Off: Pornography & the End of Masculinity. He describes it as a book “on gender and male privilege, rooted in the feminist critique of … Continue reading

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“Sweetener wars reinterpreted as feminist history”

Via Rebecca Tushnet, who says: “From Overheard in New York (ignore the crass headline). Clever, and also up-to-date on the news…”

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Feminism and Fashion

You may have seen this NYT article, “Before Models Can Turn Around, Knockoffs Fly.” It documents the push by elite members of the fashion industry to obtain copyright protection, or possibly formulate a new sui generis (stand alone) form of … Continue reading

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Miami is looking for visitors, and it’s a very cool law school in pleasingly warm climate!

The University of Miami School of Law is looking for several visitors for the 2008-09 school year. We are particularly interested in commercial law, civil procedure, family law, and T&E. If coming to Miami for a year of work and … Continue reading

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Dorian Solot and Marshall Miller, “I Love Female Orgasm”

Related webpage here. Review by Courtney at Feministing here.

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Not Particularly Subtle Carmera Advertisement From Decades Ago

I think that’s Ally McGraw.

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“Sexual Harassment” at Ave Maria

Ave Maria School of Law appears to be an institution on the verge of a serious meltdown. Certainly there is evidence that the Catholic religion treats women as second class citizens.   A new manifestation of the tensions at Ave … Continue reading

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Props and News!

I just saw the [below] post in which FeministLawProf David Cohen gave props to me and Christine Hurt for giving props to him in our Interactive Citation Workbook and Workstation exercise. I specifically chose David’s post as a citation example … Continue reading

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GenderPAC Releases New Report on Gender Discrimination in Schools

The GENIUS (Gener Equality National Index for Universities and Schools) Report is available here. An overview from GenderPAC notes: “This is the second year that GenderPAC has published the GENIUS Index. The 2007 Index reflects a tremendous increase in response … Continue reading

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“Curse Selection”

The Closet Optimist asks: Have you ever noticed that dropping one little letter turns a “course” into a “curse”?

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On Larry Craig

My thinking on his arrest and the current media frenzy about it is rather muddled. One the one hand, I understand what Bill Araiza is saying at Prawfsblawg and the similar view Hilzoy articulated at Obsidian Wings. Larry Craig appears … Continue reading

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“Eve Teasing” and The Blank Noise Project

Via Feminist Law Prof Lesley Wexler, an article about street harassment in India, excerpted below: … The efforts of academics, women’s groups, and artists like Patheja are raising major questions about gender issues and the need for safe public space … Continue reading

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“Contracts Spotlight: Eboni Nelson”

Check out this post at ContractsProf Blog to read about our awesome new colleague. Via Susan Kuo. –Ann Bartow

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The Hillary Nutcracker

I find this sort of amusing but I understand that not everyone will, and also that I won’t have much else in common with some of the folks who do too. Here’s one of the “product features”: The Hillary Clinton … Continue reading

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Divisive Dichotomies

This Situationist post describes a talk by Susan T. Fiske entitled”Venus and Mars, or Down to Earth?”Here is an excerpt: In her undergraduate courses in psychology, she couldn’t help noticing that”all the individual differences had a good end and a … Continue reading

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Gently Amusing YouTube Clips

The Crosswalk Prank; the Really Crowded Wave Pool; the Pachelbel Rant; the Nixon Peabody Parody; and Funny Cats.

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“Sworn Virgins”

From Our Bodies, Our Blog: Bet you thought I’d be writing about purity balls or promise rings. But not this time. The Chicago Tribune last week had a fascinating story about women in northern Albania who take an oath of … Continue reading

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Vagina Pagina

It’s a LiveJournal Community where women talk about their bodies.

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Scholarship on Abortion in the Middle East and North Africa, Spain, and Trinidad and Tobago

Links, titles and abstracts over at Reproductive Rights Prof Blog.

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Spoken Word Feminism

Here!

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Rape and Consent

Troubling essay about “gray rape” here. Eloquent and powerful feminist response here. And another one here.

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Obtaining a Degree In Graceful Submission

From the same group behind the 1998 Southern Baptist Convention that adopted this article of faith: “A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of … Continue reading

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Today Is Women’s Equality Day

Celebrate by heading over to Tennessee Guerilla Women and reading this, this and this. Via Mae Quinn.

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Economist article entitled: “Sex, shopping and thinking pink” reports alleged biologically based talent for shopping and preference for pink within “female brains.” Nope, I’m not buying it either.

I plan to obtain the actual data supposedly supporting what strikes me as completely preposterous conclusions in this article (chock full of evo-psych phrases like “the primordial bargain of human hunter-gatherer societies”), so that I can get a second opinion … Continue reading

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Camp Okutta Doesn’t Exist

But read about it anyway at this Sivacracy post by Liz Losh.

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Grace Paley Has Died.

NYT story here. Short bio here. Update: Read Sally Greene’s eloquent remembrance here.

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What Do You Suppose It Tasted Like Before?

Apologies if you are reading this while, or shortly after eating.

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Summer 2007 SFO: Women, Prisons and Change

AVAILABLE HERE!

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Carolyn Heilbrun, “Writing A Woman’s Life”

I just re-read this, and was startled both by how well written it is (even better than I remembered), and by how fresh the observations and analysis remain. Published in 1989, this is a terrific book, about which the NYT … Continue reading

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Scenes From A Sofa

Person A, sprawled across a couch, and speaking to a large, assertively cuddling feline: “Hey, this isn’t comfortable. You’re suffocating me! I need space. Ouch, that hurt! Sorry, kitty, you have to go. This isn’t working out.” Person B, lurking … Continue reading

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Twisty Nails It, Yet Again.

This post makes me suspect she is secretly a law professor. –Ann Bartow

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Amananta’s Feminism 101

Excerpt from her latest post at Screaming Into The Void: … If the thought of a man wearing high heels, shaving his body, wearing powder puff pink, eating nothing but tiny salads to try to look no bigger than a … Continue reading

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Unsolicited Dating Advice

If you are ever in someone’s home, and find out they own towels like this, run! Run away!

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“Ohio court redefines the future for gays, lesbians”

Feminist Law Prof Marc Spindelman published a column with this title in recent issue of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Below is an excerpt: A funny thing happened in the Ohio Supreme Court last month: For the first time, the court … Continue reading

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What Does One WaPo Writer Think Is The Best Way To Critically Describe Cheney’s Foreign Policy Views? A Quote About Him Having “this little-girl crush on strongmen.”

Here. Below is an excerpt: … By fall, the compromises grew more serious. When tanks rolled through Bangkok in a military coup overthrowing Thailand‘s elected prime minister, Bush was at the United Nations delivering a speech on democracy. But Bush … Continue reading

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