Author Archives: Ann Bartow

Women In Art

Beautiful video here.

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Studies: Having daughters changes men

The USA Today article of this title is available here. Below is an excerpt: … In a study completed last month, a Yale researcher found that male congressmen with daughters are more likely to support women’s issues than those without … Continue reading

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Carnival Against Sexual Violence 25

Read it here at abyss2hope.

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“The sad thing is that it’s a fairly common problem among young teenagers, which is usually resolved by the latter stages of the testosterone rush that finishes off adolescence … But add some fat in there, and a cut-happy approach to body oddities, and you’ve got teens under the cosmetic knife.”

That’s a quote from this NYT article about gynecomastia.

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It’s International Weblogger’s Day!

More here.

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Harriette A. Page, “Female Blogging: Issues of Identity, Relations and Play”

Really interesting paper with lots of data and links accessible here.

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Case To Watch Regarding Online Harassment and Defamation Law

See this WSJ.com article, concerning a suit filed against people involved with AutoAdmit/XOXOHTH, via Brian Leiter. Many of us who blog under our own names will be watching this case with a lot of interest, particularly with respect to harassment … Continue reading

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Loving v. Virginia Was Decided 40 Years Ago Today

More at IntLawGrrls.

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And The Rich Get Richer…

Walter Kimbrough writes about a $400 million gift to Columbia here at Inside Higher Ed. Below is an excerpt: … I am becoming less and less tolerant of people who pass wealth on to the privileged and masquerade it as … Continue reading

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Coke Reversed: Justices uphold regulation precluding home care employees from OT pay

It was unanimous. Ugh. Paul Secunda has an account at Workplace Prof Blog. Previous FLP post about the case here. Update: NYT coverage here. An excerpt: … The Labor Department did not exceed its authority when it excluded home care … Continue reading

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Thus Spake Zuska, “The Playing Field Will Never Be Equal: Gender Equity For Physicists”

Below is an excerpt from this awesome post: So, the American Physical Society had a gender equity workshop, and all the bigwigs came – chairs of 50 major physics departments, 14 division directors of national labs, leaders from NSF and … Continue reading

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Wrong But Entirely Predictable

From cnet news dot com: Editors’ note: Since this story was published, CNET News.com has reviewed some of the documents relevant to the case. For more information, see “MPAA accuses TorrentSpy of concealing evidence.” A court decision reached last month … Continue reading

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Carys Craig, “Reconstructing the Author-Self: Some Feminist Lessons for Copyright Law”

Here is the abstract: Copyright law currently forces all intellectual production into a doctrinal model shaped by individualistic assumptions about the authorial ideal. To the extent that the truly original author-owner is conceptualized as an individual (and not a function … Continue reading

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Adrien Katherine Wing, “Critical Race Feminism, A Reader”

From the publisher’s webpage: Now in its second edition, the acclaimed anthology Critical Race Feminism presents over 40 readings on the legal status of women of color by leading authors and scholars such as Anita Hill, Lani Guinier, Kathleen Neal … Continue reading

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Ouch.

Check out the footnote in this order (at the bottom of the page). And if you want to see who those twelve law professors are, click here.

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Dancing

Lisa Bufano, a bilateral below knee and finger amputee, is challenging the preconception that the body of a dancer requires physical perfection. More here. Via 3 Quarks Daily.

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Bush’s Big Irony . . .

As posted here on Feminist Law Profs, Mary Cheney and her partner Heather Poe welcomed their new son Samuel David into the world on May 23. The White House promptly issued a photo of Grandparents Vice-President Dick and Lynne Cheney … Continue reading

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Linda Christine Fentiman, “The New”Fetal Protection”: The Wrong Answer to the Crisis of Inadequate Health Care for Women and Children”

Here is the abstract: This article examines recent”fetal protection”efforts, which demonize, disenfranchise, and punish pregnant women. These actions erase the bright line of birth which has historically distinguished children from fetuses, and include criminal prosecutions of pregnant women, civil commitments … Continue reading

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Politics As Usual: He’s A “Stud” While She “Works The Pole.”

This is a photograph of possible ’08 Presidential candidate Fred Thompson with his spouse, Jeri Kehn: See also. The New York Post has referred to Kehn as Thompson’s “Babe Wife.” This article also observed: “Kehn scored a coup in convincing … Continue reading

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“Writing for Their Rights”

From On the Media: In Gwalior, India, women with no journalistic training, and often no education, are writing about their grievances in the newspaper Mahila Paksh. New Delhi-based reporter Mridu Khullar says their reporting has led to extraordinary changes. Read … Continue reading

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The 39th Carnival of Feminists

The original feminists’ carnival! Lots of good links and reading at Laurelin in the Rain.

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Male Attorney More Effective As Female Online

Over at Madisonian Theory, Fred Yen notes: Today’s law.com has a interesting story about law firms conducting investigations to enforce clients’ IP rights on the Internet. It describes how a Covington and Burling lawyer impersonated a”flirtatious 27 year old female … Continue reading

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Buy Thicker Curtains.

And keep them closed. And don’t go outdoors, because Google now offers “street view.” On a related note, I overheard two college students talking about why they change clothing in the bathroom stall of the women’s locker room at the … Continue reading

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Second Carnival of Radical Feminists

The First Carnival of Radical Feminists is a ridiculously difficult act to follow, because Heart did such a fantastic job with it. It is a great resource, and I hope this one will be at least somewhat useful as well. … Continue reading

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Anita Bernstein, “Tort Theory, Microfinance, and Gender Equality Convergent in Pecuniary Reparations”

Here is the abstract: Governments around the world have undertaken reparations programs following historically recent experiences of serious human rights violations. This chapter uses tort theory to defend monetary payments as a constituent of national repair. It argues that paying … Continue reading

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Soccer Harassment Rules Expanded, Thanks To Mills College

The Women’s Sports Foundation News reports: Thanks to the combined efforts of the Mills College Soccer Team, Athletic Department, Legal Counsel, College Senior Officers, and President Holmgren, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has approved a soccer rule change that … Continue reading

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Elizabeth Foyster, “Marital Violence: An English Family History, 1660-1857”

From the books’ webpage: This book exposes the ‘hidden’ history of marital violence and explores its place in English family life between the Restoration and the mid-nineteenth century. In a time before divorce was easily available and when husbands were … Continue reading

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Market Forces and “Nymphet”

U.S. manga publisher Seven Seas has decided to delay release of (or possibly cancel) the first volume of Kaworu Watashiya’s Nymphet. Nymphet “features an elementary-school girl fruitlessly attempting to seduce her adult teacher. Although the series contains no overt nudity … Continue reading

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DeAnza Update

Here’s an SFgate column about the rescuers, and here is an SFgate column about the DA’s refusal to prosecute.

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There Was An Arrest, But Will There Be Justice?

From ABC News: ‘Most Wanted Accused Child Pornographer/Rapist’ Arrested in China: Former Deputy Allegedly Raped His Daughter, Posted the Video Online By PIERRE THOMAS, JACK DATE and THERESA COOK Kenneth John Freeman, described by the U.S. Marshals Service as “one … Continue reading

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Mothers, Daughters and Sisters

On Memorial Day weekend, CBS devoted its news show 60 Minutes to a story about Iowa soldiers in Iraq entitled Fathers, Sons and Brothers. Reporter Scott Pelley has followed the 1st Battalion of the 133rd Infantry of the Iowa National … Continue reading

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Blogging Your Court Case Is A Very Bad Idea!

Froomkin nails this, so let me free ride off his trenchant analysis: The mind boggles. Blogger unmasked, court case upended: As Ivy League-educated pediatrician Robert P. Lindeman sat on the stand in Suffolk Superior Court this month, defending himself in … Continue reading

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“Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America”

From the FLP mailbox: Juan Perea, Richard Delgado, Angela Harris, Jean Stefancic, and Stephanie Wildman are pleased to announce the June publication of the Second Edition of Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America available from West. … Continue reading

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Judith Butler on Hannah Arendt

At the London Review of Books website, in an essay entitled “I merely belong to them.”

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Score One For Difference Feminism As A Study Of Immigration Courts Finds: “One of the most significant factors determining whether a judge would be likely to approve asylum petitions was sex, the study found. Female immigration judges grant asylum at a 44 percent higher rate than their male colleagues.”

The study, by law profs Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Philip Schrag and Andrew Schoenholtz is accessible here. Below is the abstract: This study analyzes databases of merits decisions from all four levels of the asylum adjudication process: 133,000 decisions by 884 asylum … Continue reading

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Complicated International Child Custody Case

I don’t know anything at all about the specifics or merits of this case, but Heart at Women’s Space/The Margins has been blogging about it and doing other sorts of activism as well. Read her post and see if you … Continue reading

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Magic Date Ball

It’s an actual product: From the Manufacturer MAGIC 8 BALL DATE BALL This Magic 8 Ball has just the answers you need to advise you in dating matters! Ask any question at all and you’ll learn what you need to … Continue reading

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Oh, Crud.

Diane is ending the Dees Diversion, and though I completely support her decision, I’m taking it pretty hard. She is smart, ardently and brilliantly feminist, and doesn’t take issue based disagreement personally. In other words, she is far too rare! … Continue reading

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“Desperate Iraqi Refugees Turn to Sex Trade in Syria”

The NYT reports: … Even in central Damascus, men freely talk of being approached by pimps trawling for customers outside juice shops and shawarma sandwich stalls, and of women walking up to passing men, an act unthinkable in Arab culture, … Continue reading

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“The 100th birthday of artist and feminist icon Frida Kahlo will be honored with the largest-ever exhibit of her paintings, the Museum of the Fine Arts Palace in Mexico said Tuesday.”

I’m going, somehow.

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Drenched in Homophobia

This. And this, which links to it. Not a Frank Bruni fan (to put it mildly) but Bruni is one of the most “out” prominent gay journalists in this country, and this sort of leveraging of his sexual orientation, putatively … Continue reading

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“A Topeka man convicted of repeatedly raping and sodomizing a 14-year-old girl was sentenced to three years probation, rather than nearly 13 years in jail.”

I don’t have anything useful to add. Read more at the Sentencing Law and Policy Blog.

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Thank You Ruth Bader Ginsburg

From a NYT account of Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg read part of her dissent aloud (itself an unmistakable sign of anger), and the tone of her opinion showed how bitterly she differed with the … Continue reading

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Cindy Sheehan’s Memorial Day Message

Read it here. Below is an excerpt: … I have come to some heartbreaking conclusions this Memorial Day Morning. These are not spur of the moment reflections, but things I have been meditating on for about a year now. The … Continue reading

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“While cleavage isn’t appropriate in the office, breasts shouldn’t be hidden, according to author Elisabeth Squires. A study found that women with medium-sized breasts are best perceived by men at work.”

Apparently this is not satire, it is actual news from ABC in the form of an article entitled “Cleavage: What’s Appropriate, What’s Not.” Here are a couple of additional excerpts: … From the beach to the mall to the office, … Continue reading

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Janet Conney v. The Regents of the University of California, et al.

The AAUW’s summary is here, below is an excerpt: … In 1998, Conney received a geriatric psychiatry fellowship position at UCLA where she researched, published, and was mentored by senior colleagues. The department director offered her a promotion to assistant … Continue reading

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“The Sexual Harassment of Uppity Women”

The Journal of Applied Psychology recently published an article by this title written by Jennifer Berdahl of the University of Toronto, in which she describes the results of her recent sexual harassment study. She concludes that gender harassment is primarily … Continue reading

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The Semiotics of Internet Reactions To A Documentary About Girls Who Play Rock Music

The blog Crimitism reports: Comments which have been left on the YouTube trailer for the documentary Girls Rock! The Movie, about a rock n’ roll camp for girls who look to be between about 9 and 17. All of this … Continue reading

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What To Make Of This?

From Yahoo News: Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered a pop singer to change his lyrics after a college girl complained that male students teased her by singing the song when she passed by, a court official said on Tuesday. The … Continue reading

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New Disability Blog Carnival Is Up!

Read it here.

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