Author Archives: Ann Bartow

“Fake, Out”

Read this post. Arggh! Infuriating! Avoiding American Girl Dolls is apparently now something I’ll have in common with the religious right. See also. Oh well. –Ann Bartow Via a blogger who I’m guessing does not collect dolls, or at a … Continue reading

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Rebecca Tushnet, “My Fair Ladies: Sex, Gender, and Fair Use in Copyright”

The abstract: Both parodies and legal opinions reflect the culture from which they come, and our culture has many anxieties about sexuality and about women’s bodies. This article explores the ways in which these anxieties play out in fair use … Continue reading

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So How Much Does “True.com” Pay the NYT In Advertising Fees?

Given that the headline for the NYT article about this dating service labels True.com “Hot But Virtuous” I’m guessing it is a sizeable amount. The article itself rather repulsively starts out thusly: “The women who appear in Web ads for … Continue reading

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Derrida Papers Controvery Update: The U of Florida “Knew Nothing” About Sexual Harassment Sanctions

The Gainesville Sun reported: A vampire expert at the University of Florida stands at the center of a bizarre tale about which UF officials say they only recently learned. Dragan Kujundzic, who was ousted as chair of UF’s department of … Continue reading

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The Lolas of LILA Pilipina

From M. Evelina Galang’s blog, “Laban! Fight For Comfort Women: Lola is the Tagalog word for grandmother. And on Matimtiman Street in Quezon City, Philippines, Lolas’ House is a community center for a special kind of grandmother. The women of … Continue reading

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Happy St. Pat’s!

I ran a 5k this morning with about 1,300 other people, and I did it in about 30 minutes, which isn’t too bad for an aging law prof, is it? I passed more than a few college students along the … Continue reading

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8th Cir. Rules That Title VII Does Not Require Insurance Coverage for Contraceptives

Full opinion in Standridge v. Union Pacific RR here. Read more at the Reproductive Rights Prof Blog.

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AALS Workshop on Reproductive Medicine and Law, June 20-22, 2007, Vancouver BC

From the official announcement: The Association of American Law Schools and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine are jointly sponsoring a workshop on Reproductive Medicine and the Law. After more than two decades, assisted reproductive technologies coupled with increasingly sophisticated … Continue reading

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Penelope Andrews, “Women’s Human Rights and the Conversation Across Cultures”

Penelope Andrews The abstract reports: “This comment examines the vision of women’s rights and equality as outlined in CEDAW. It raises some of the possibilities and limitations associated with universalizing legal norms in a context of enormous global disparities, particularly … Continue reading

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More About Online Harassment

Today’s Chron has an article entitled: 2 Deans Denounce Online Law-Students’ Discussion Board That Allows Anonymous Personal Attacks which reports in pertinent part: A law-students’ chat site whose operators have refused to remove derogatory, sexist, and racist postings about individual … Continue reading

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Fuck, SSRN Rankings

SSRN is the Social Science Research Network, a for profit online depository and distribution network for academic papers with an all-male Board of Trustees. My law school pays a fee to SSRN so that my colleagues and I can upload … Continue reading

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Ever See That “Bride Has Massive Hair Wig Out” Video On YouTube?

If not you can watch it here. Did you wonder which family member or so-called friend would put something like that out there for public consumption? Or did you realize that it was phoney, part of an advertising campaign? See … Continue reading

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Trial Lawyer’s Prayer

Here. Hey secular humanists, don’t freak – it’s satirical! Via Mythago. And if you thought it was funny, see also.

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The Number of Women Authors Published In The March 2007 Edition Of The Yale Law Journal?

Zero! And how many women authors were published in the previous (January 2007) issue? Zero again!

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Where Wings Take Dream

Over a year ago (in this post) I noted that in my pre-law-professor life I often worked odd jobs to make extra money. For a while I was part of a team that traveled to a series of churches and … Continue reading

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Excerpt From An E-mail From A Friend Who Is Teaching In A Foreign Country

“I am off to my second meal with the President of the University in one week. Compared with no meals in [all my] years at [my home institution]. The head of the foreign students office gave me a Playboy desk … Continue reading

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Sexual Politics

An interesting article about Kate Millett was published 8 years ago in Salon. Here is an excerpt: “There is no denying the misery and stress of life,” she wrote in “The Loony-Bin Trip.” “The swarms of fears, the blocks to … Continue reading

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Betty Spence, “How We Talk About Women”

Here is an excerpt: On the Dec. 19 edition of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” Chris Matthews used language that reveals a troubling bias against women — one that is all too common in the media and is conveyed by the subtle weapon … Continue reading

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“Britney Jean Spears is not an idea. She’s a 25-year-old mother of two who is coming apart at the seams. In public.”

Those words are from this Leonard Pitts column that was published 3/9/07 in the Miama Herald. Here’s another excerpt: … To the degree I think about her at all, it’s usually as a laugh line. People ask if I miss … Continue reading

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A Portrait of “Generation Next” by The Pew Research Center

Summary here; full report here. “The report is divided into four main sections: (1) Outlook and World View, (2) Technology and Lifestyle, (3) Politics and Policy, and (4) Values and Social Issues.” Below is an excerpt from the report’s introduction: … Continue reading

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Pelvic Exams and Informed Consent

This post at Women’s Health News reports: The New England Journal of Medicine has a perspective piece by Adam Wolfberg in the current issue (1), “The Patient as Ally : Learning the Pelvic Examination,” which addresses the issue of teaching … Continue reading

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Humorless Feminism: A Continuing Series

Today’s “not funny” entry is this post at The Cheerful Oncologist: Bad-tempered women ‘can blame it on genes’ Ever wonder why some women seem to be more ill-tempered than others? University of Pittsburgh researchers have found that behaviors such as … Continue reading

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TAP Special Report

“The Motherload.”

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“The fact that you can sit here and look at me like I’m insane is fantastic,”Harvard Physics Prof. Melissa Franklin said.

According to this article in the Harvard Crimson: Harvard’s first tenured woman physics professor, Melissa E.B. Franklin, startled her audience last night when relating some career experiences that became physical in ways she had not quite expected. “Used to be … Continue reading

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Joan MacLeod Heminway, “Martha Stewart’s Legal Troubles”

Editor and Feminist Law Prof Joan MacLeod Heminway is a good friend and brilliant scholar. Here is the Amazon.com description of her new book: Martha Stewart’s Legal Troubles: Heminway brings together essays written by legal scholars specializing in both white … Continue reading

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Elizabeth M. Schneider, “The Dangers of Summary Judgment: Gender and Federal Civil Litigation”

The abstract: This Article examines the problematic application of summary judgment in federal courts through a study of gender cases. Identifying a new dimension of the interrelationship between procedure and gender, I examine the ways in which summary judgment impacts … Continue reading

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Adriene Sere, “Sex and Feminism: Who Is Being Silenced?”

The following is an excerpt from a provocative essay by Adriene Sere that was published in 2001, which was brought to my attention by a post at Sinister Girl: Leftist publications have a problem with radical feminism. They have long … Continue reading

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Does This Mean That Irony Is Dead? Or That Irony Isn’t Dead? I Get Confused.

Guess what? “ReputationDefender” aggressively defends its own reputation! In response to this post, I received the following e-mail (which I also obtained explicit permission to post here): Dear Prof. Bartow, We were admittedly disturbed to read your recent blog posting … Continue reading

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Something About The Timing Gives Me Pause

Over at Concurring Opinions, David Hoffman began a post about the WaPo article on Xoxohth’s “law school hotties” contest with these words: Reputation Defender is a new start-up that seeks to commodify internet self-help. According to yesterday’s WashingtonPost article on … Continue reading

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1000 Books For Peace Project

Adapted from an e-mail by Prof. Jeremy Levitt: The purpose of this post is to inform you about a special project that the Program for Human Rights and Global Justice at Florida International University is undertaking to support the reconstruction … Continue reading

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Want To Pay $1,200 To Hear A Bunch of Men Pontificate About The Future?

It’s “The New Yorker Conference/2012: stories from the near future” and with only a small fraction of the speakers (three out of twenty-five!) female, it looks like the near future will be as dude-centric as ever. At her blog Heavens … Continue reading

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Does The Yahoo Avatar Pictured Below Look “Plus Sized” To You?

The blogger “One Jewish Dyke” writes that not only is this the largest female avatar available at Yahoo, but that if you choose it, your virtual clothing choices are very limited, which she notes is rather odd, because: In a … Continue reading

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“The Abortion Diaries”

From the film’s website: The Abortion Diaries is a documentary featuring 12 women who speak candidly about their experiences with abortion. The women are doctors, subway workers, artists, activists, military personnel, teachers and students; they are Black, Latina, Jewish and … Continue reading

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The New Hampshire House of Reps voted to repeal a parental notice abortion law

Press Release Direct from NARAL: Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, praised New Hampshire legislators for voting overwhelmingly to repeal a dangerous parental-involvement mandate that had gone all the way to the Supreme Court. “Teens in trouble should turn … Continue reading

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Two commercial announcements

Or don’t subscribe! No pressure either way! “make/shift” is a new feminist magazine. Learn more here. NB: They have offered to send me a free “review” copy of the first issue, and I accepted, which I feel compelled to reveal … Continue reading

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Derrida Papers Controversy Turns Out To Have Sexual Harassment Component

A little over a month ago the Chron reported that the University of California at Irvine was suing the family of Jacques Derrida over the philosopher’s papers. Two weeks later the LA Times reported that U.C. Irvine was dropping its … Continue reading

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A writer, economist, and lecturer, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an early theorist of the feminist movement. According to The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was born in New England, a descendent of the prominent and influential Beecher … Continue reading

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“Designer Vaginas”

Head on over to the Reproductive Rights Prof Blog and read Feminist Law Prof Catlin Borgmann’s post on this topic! On a related note, see this post too.

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Deborah Merritt, “Bias, the Brain, and Student Evaluations of Teaching”

The abstract: Student evaluations of teaching are a common fixture at American law schools, but they harbor surprising biases. Extensive psychology research demonstrates that these assessments respond overwhelmingly to a professor’s appearance and nonverbal behavior; ratings based on just thirty … Continue reading

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Upcoming Conference: Constituting Equality: Comparative Constitutional Law and Gender Equality

Constituting Equality: Comparative Constitutional Law and Gender Equality at the Indiana University School of Law–Bloomington on March 23 and 24, 2007 Interest in comparative constitutional law has exploded in recent years, but the burgeoning field has paid little attention to … Continue reading

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We Are All Porn Search Engine Optimizers Now

When people end their blogs, pornographers and others often take over the blog’s URL. Bloggers who don’t keep their blogrolls updated may inadvertently be linking to, and increasing the search engine rank of, porn sites. This blog doesn’t have a … Continue reading

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Medical Privacy, or Lack Thereof, and Profits

Deborah Peel, MD writes in an e-mail that is quoted here with permission: Fortune Magazine lauds one of the nation’s largest data miners of medical records, without any awareness that one major reason for the corporation’s success (revenue of $88 … Continue reading

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“Hymen Fatwa”

There is a lot to ponder in this article about the approval of reconstructive hyman surgery by a high ranking Egyptian religious figure that appeared in the Daily Star Egypt. On the one hand, it’s hard not to cheer a … Continue reading

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“Mental health courts have the potential to save taxpayers money”

That’s the title of this article, which I really like, except for the title and portions that focus on “saving taxpayers money,” as if that was the most important aspect of treating people with mental illnesses in a just and … Continue reading

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The U.N.’s CSW: “Women, violence and empowerment: the world we live in”

That’s the title of this terrific post by Patricia Daniel at openDemocracy. Below is a short excerpt: … The [Commission on the Status of Women, a.k.a. CSW] is a United Nations body, consisting of forty-five members appointed on a four-year … Continue reading

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Women’s Studies at the University of South Carolina

The last two days have been taken up with the wonderful Annual Women’s Studies Conference here at the University of South Carolina. I’m a WOST Affiliate Faculty Member, have been since the moment I got here, and the WOST program … Continue reading

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National Procreation-referencing Radio

Here’s the blurb to a story entitled “A Really Hot Potato” that was on NPR’s Morning Edition today: A grandmother in Italy bought a sack of potatoes at her local market. Before cooking them, she washed them, only to find … Continue reading

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New Issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online: “Jewish Women Changing America: Cross-Generational Conversations”

Read more about this issue here or access the issue index here. Below is an excerpt from the editor’s overview: This issue of Scholar and Feminist Online began with an insight: the growing realization of the importance of Jewish women … Continue reading

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In Which The Internets Provide A Good Laugh

Via this post from a blog called: You Knit What?? Seriously. What the hell were you thinking? I’m tempted to copy the whole thing and repost it here, but in deference to the blogger’s ad revenue, let me just encourage … Continue reading

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The Creepy Misogyny of NYT Restaurant Critic Frank Bruni

Today’s NYT features a review by “Frank Bruni” of the restaurant at the Penthouse Executive club entitled: “Where Only the Salad Is Properly Dressed.” He claims to like the steak there, but the entire article is a platform for his … Continue reading

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