Author Archives: Ann Bartow

Womenstake.org, the New Blog of the National Women’s Law Center

Check out Womenstake.org here! The NWLC homepage is here. You can read more about its history of outstanding legal accomplishments here.

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“Leading Librarian Ends 400 Years of Male Tradition at Oxford”

Via Marie S. Newman at Out of the Jungle: Sarah Thomas ’70 broke more than four centuries of English tradition earlier this year when she became the first woman to lead Oxford’s Bodleian Library, the second-largest library in the U.K. … Continue reading

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“The Sexual Politics of Google”

At Balkinization, Jack Balkin notes: When you type “she invented” into Google, it returns: Did you mean: “he invented” The same, by the way, also applies for Google searches for “she created,” “she succeeded,” and “she led.” Lest you think … Continue reading

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“Whistle-Blower on Student Aid Is Vindicated”

A NYT article reports in pertinent part: When Jon Oberg, a Department of Education researcher, warned in 2003 that student lending companies were improperly collecting hundreds of millions in federal subsidies and suggested how to correct the problem, his supervisor … Continue reading

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“Is Stripping a Feminist Act?”

That is the title of an essay by Sarah Katherine Lewis at Alternet. Below is an excerpt: … Do I feel “empowered” by the very nature of the work I performed? No. Do I feel like sex work is an … Continue reading

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Yes, Vile.

Take a deep breath and read this post at IBTP. I watched the video, and it is going to haunt me for a long time.

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Not Funny, Part 12,567

From here and here.

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“How good jugglers become better students”

According to this article: … Research shows the benefits of juggling can last for weeks and that it actually increases gray matter in the brain, according to Brennen physical education teachers and scientific studies. “If you juggle in the few … Continue reading

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“CBS.com has to shut comments down on Obama stories”

Not surprisingly, in addition to sexual harassment, the dynamics of the Internet facilitate virulent online racism, as discussed by Pam Spaulding at Pandagon.

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Transgender Workplace Diversity Workshop – Wednesday, June 27

From the FLP mailbox: On Wednesday, June 27, 2007, a day-long workshop will be held at Ramapo College of New Jersey on the subject of transgender workplace diversity, specially targeted to the needs of human resources, diversity and legal professionals … Continue reading

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The JD Project

Feminist Law Prof Vernellia Randall writes: The JD Project’s mission is to increase the racial diversity of the legal profession with specific attention on helping minority students excel in law school and pass the bar. I am writing both to … Continue reading

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Garance Franke-Ruta, “Age of Innocence Revisited”

From the WSJ.com: Joe Francis, founder of the “Girls Gone Wild” video company, may be 34 years old, but these days he is barely legal. The controversial impresario has built a $100 million soft-core porn empire based on filming college … Continue reading

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An Important Copyright Case About Photos of Naked Women, As Discussed By Men

From the Tech Law Forum: Counsel for Perfect 10 v. Google Square Off On February 2, 2007, Justin Hughes, Director of the Cardozo Law School’s intellectual property program, moderated a panel discussion at Santa Clara University. The talk focused on … Continue reading

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“From Poverty to Prosperity: A National Strategy to Cut Poverty in Half”

From the Center for American Progress: Thirty-seven million Americans live below the official poverty line. Millions more struggle each month to pay for basic necessities, or run out of savings when they lose their jobs or face health emergencies. Poverty … Continue reading

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PSA For Anyone Who Is Interested

And see also.

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NOW says “Tell the Media: Stop Sexist Campaign Coverage”

From an e-mail from the NOW National Action Center: The media are up to their old tricks. One of their favorite pastimes is judging presidential candidates on superficial traits:like their hair or weight:rather than their positions on important issues. A … Continue reading

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“Law and the Emotions: New Directions in Scholarship” Website

The “Law and the Emotions: New Directions in Scholarship,” conference held at UC Berkeley on February 8th and 9th now has a dedicated website here which has links to conference papers and abstracts, and a Papers of Interest page with … Continue reading

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E.J. Graff asks: “What’s with the sexualized threats against women?”

And gets some answers in the comments, though perhaps not the kind she was hoping for.

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Priniciples of Economics…

… by The Stand Up Economist. Via Christine Hurt.

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The He/She Ratio

There is an online tool called the He/She Ratio that tallies the ratio of how many times the words “he” and “she” are employed on a website.   For this blog it found: Usage of “he” vs “she” on feministlawprofs.law.sc.edu/ … Continue reading

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Why Women’s Voices Aren’t Heard on Abortion

A supposedly liberal dood blogger (who is also affiliated with a disproportionately male media enterprise) writes about abortion: “Ultimately, brave people are going to have to stand up and start talking about their personal experiences with these things in a … Continue reading

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The Scholar & Feminist Online – Spring 2007 Issue!

Issue homepage here! About this issue: As blogging has more widespread interest, especially vis-á-vis electoral politics, feminist activity on the internet has remained marginal to the mainstream. Thus, we were thrilled when Gwendolyn Beetham and Jessica Valenti proposed “Blogging Feminism: … Continue reading

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National Parity Day

From an e-mail sent by “Wellstone Action”:   Today, as part of National Parity Day, David Wellstone is meeting with members of Congress to urge them to finally pass legislation that his father championed for over a decade, a bill … Continue reading

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Summer Researchwear

From here.

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“Many female lawyers dropping off path to partnership”

From The Boston Globe: … Female lawyers continue to face intractable challenges in their attempts to become partners, causing them to abandon law firm careers — and the legal profession entirely — at a dramatically higher rate than men, according … Continue reading

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Does The “Femininity” Of A Girl’s Name Affect Her Career Path?

According to this article in The Guardian: … [G]irls who are given very feminine names, such as Anna, Emma or Elizabeth, are less likely to study maths or physics after the age of 16, a remarkable study has found. Both … Continue reading

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“SSRI Stories”

This website hosts a long collection of links to mainstream media news articles about acts of violence that reference antidepressants in some way. Of course this does not establish causation between taking antidepressants and violence, but it still may be … Continue reading

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AALS Workshop on Family Law: Bridging the Gap Between Social Science and Law

Family law scholars have increasingly turned to the empirical sciences in their teaching and scholarship to help define problems worthy of exploration, provide the data necessary to develop and test hypotheses, and deepen their understanding of the interaction between law, … Continue reading

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Reports of Strife At Ave Maria School of Law

Mirror of Justice has an account. Below is an excerpt: “… As evidenced by a number of documents available on the internet [link], as well as by some rather angry, though sometimes humorous blogs [link], and by the experience and … Continue reading

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The Rise of “Torture Porn”

“For Your Entertainment” by Kira Cochrane, in The Guardian, excerpt below: … The publicity campaigns for many of these films flag up the prospect of watching a nubile young woman being tortured as a genuinely pleasurable experience. So, for instance, … Continue reading

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Jody Raphael, “Freeing Tammy: Women, Drugs, and Incarceration”

Jody Raphael, Senior Research Fellow, DePaul College of Law, has recently published the third book in her women, poverty, and violence trilogy, a feminist work (a ten-year project) that uses women’s own voices to show how violence makes and keeps … Continue reading

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A PSA For Hiking and Camping Feminists

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Medical Students For Choice

From the organizational website: The United States and Canada face a dangerous shortage of trained abortion providers. In 2000, 87% of the counties in the United States had no provider (1). The”graying”of current providers (57% of whom are over the … Continue reading

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Thinking Bloggers

Mary Dudziak of the Legal History Blog was kind enough to tag this blog, so now I get to name five bloggers deserving of this award. Keeping the list at five is tricky, and many of my favorite bloggers have … Continue reading

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Carnival Against Sexual Violence 22

Up at Abyss2Hope.

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Sara and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad PSA

The Ad Council, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, has developed a series of “Online Sexual Exploitation” public service advertisements designed “to educate teenage girls about the potential dangers … Continue reading

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“The University Without Students”

A meditation on summer by the Tenured Radical. Here is a short excerpt: If anyone ever asks why people go into college teaching there are many important things to say about the satisfactions this career can deliver. But there’s one … Continue reading

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Internet Harassment of Women

From today’s WaPo: A female freelance writer who blogged about the pornography industry was threatened with rape. A single mother who blogged about “the daily ins and outs of being a mom” was threatened by a cyber-stalker who claimed that … Continue reading

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“Does a Judge’s Party of Appointment or Gender Matter to Case Outcomes? An Empirical Study of the Court of Appeal for Ontario (Canada)”

Authors Moin A. Yahya and James Stribopoulos conclude that it does. Here is the abstract of their article: A recent study by Cass Sunstein identified ideological differences in the votes cast by judges on the United States Court of Appeals … Continue reading

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That NYT Magazine Feature About Pornography

It’s a long article, very pornography triumphant, full of jokey puns. Below are a few quotes pulled from the piece, with a bit of commentary. From the very first paragraph introducing “trim” and “boyish” pornographer Peter Acworth: He had already … Continue reading

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Eric Muller’s Uncle Leo

I don’t really have a feminist angle on this topic, but I think you should read the posts here.

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Sticker Shock

ChasingMoksha has an interesting story of everyday exploitation: Yesterday when I was browsing some blogs, I ran across one that had a “blog sticker” in the left corner. The sticker said, “Stop violence against women.” I thought to myself how … Continue reading

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“Unrecognized Injustice : The Situation of Rape”

The Situationist has an excellent post up about Amnesty International’s study about the sexual violence against Native American women in the U.S. The report itself is here.

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“‘Ban abortion’ signs bewilder S.C.”

I repost without comment (but a little extra bolding) the article below, which appeared in my local newspaper today, in its entirety, given the possibility that it will mysteriously disappear from the paper’s website: ‘Ban abortion’ signs bewilder S.C. By … Continue reading

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Twisty Reminds Me That I Am Not Alone

After expressing my own skepticism about the “Blogswarm,” I noted with a relieved feeling of sisterhood that today Twisty posted these words: … A thousand bloggers could write”it’s not cool to oppress women”on April 28, but sooner or later it’ll … Continue reading

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Counterfeiting, Knock Offs and Child Labor?

This Chicago Sun-Times article reports that companies like Chanel and Gucci are trying to discourage consumers from buying counterfeit products (which are illegal) and “knock offs”   (which may not be illegal) by linking their production to child labor and … Continue reading

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“In Apparel, All Tariffs Aren’t Created Equal”

Today’s NYT has a story about disparities in tariffs based on whether an article of clothing is intended for men, or for women. Here is an excerpt: Congress, it turns out, plays fashion favorites. Take bathing suits. It slaps a … Continue reading

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