Author Archives: Ann Bartow

Need a Reminder About How Many Anti-Feminist “Liberals” There Are?

For the feminist part of the excercise, go read Gloria Steinem’s essay at Alternet entitled   “Why Being a Feminist Does Not Mean Backing All Women.” Then for the backlash, read the appended comments. Yeesh. –Ann Bartow

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“The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft”

From the publisher’s website: Introducing a dramatic new chapter to American Indian literary history, this book brings to the public for the first time the complete writings of the first known American Indian literary writer, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (her English … Continue reading

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Three Strange and Disturbing Old Movie Trailers

Sellers of Girls Five Wild Girls The Pill All via Bedazzled.

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“About Being Considered ‘Retarded'”

One of many very powerful videos by “Silentmiaow.”

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And the Number of Female Authors Published In the January 2007 Edition of the Yale Law Journal Appears To Be…

Zero.

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Brian Leiter Poses The Query: “How Far Will Law Schools Go to Win the Rankings Race?”

And answers: Why, as far as it takes, of course, at least as long as manipulation and deceit yield results. Rankings metrics could value (and therefore incentivize) things like diversity in student bodies, instead of rewarding rich law schools for … Continue reading

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Women generally have better credit scores than men, but pay considerably more for mortgages than men

The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) reports: Women are more likely to receive subprime home mortgage than men and these higher rates of subprime lending make it harder for households headed by women to build wealth through homeownership. In 2005, … Continue reading

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Want to Blog For Hillary?

The Hillary Clinton For President Exploratory Committee is about to launch a new blog, and they’ve decided to let a reader write the first guest post on the blog! The announcement is here and it notes: Soon we’ll launch the … Continue reading

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Nancy Rapoport Has a New Blog!

Go here and say hello!

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On Jailing Philanderers

A Yahoo News article entitled “Cheat on your spouse in Michigan and spend life in prison?” reports: Philanderers beware: spouses caught cheating in Michigan could end up spending the rest of their life in prison. And not the emotional kind. … Continue reading

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Susan Frelich Appleton, “Gender, Abortion, and Travel After Roe’s End”

Susan Frelich Appleton‘s abtract: This essay responds to Professor Richard Fallon’s 2006 Childress Lecture at St. Louis University School of Law, If Roe Were Overruled: Abortion and the Constitution in a Post-Roe World. Professor Fallon’s paper exposes as fallacies four … Continue reading

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Ellen Goodman, “Roadblock to abortion compromise”

Here is an excerpt from Goodman’s recent column: It’s not an accident that one of the first bills in the Senate with a new Democratic majority was the Prevention First Act, a wide-ranging family-planning initiative. Rep. Louise Slaughter will follow … Continue reading

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CFP:”Space Security”

From the CFP: Icfai Center for Business Research, ICBR, (Bangalore) India (a part of ICFAI Business School) is set up for raising the standards of knowledge creation and dissemination through research and publication in the area of Business Management. ICFAI … Continue reading

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Katie Couric: “A Woman At The Table”

From Couric & Co.: Last Wednesday, President Bush gave his address to the country about “the new way forward”for Iraq, and lots of journalists:including me, of course:were in Washington to cover it. But before the Big Speech, there was the … Continue reading

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Hmmm…

Welcome to BritishReparations.org, the official site of the International Coalition for British Reparations. We are a global network of citizens who have suffered injuries at the hands of the British Empire over the last five hundred years. We’ve banded together … Continue reading

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Why Is It So Difficult To Talk About The Nexus Between Alcohol Consumption, and Sex That Is Uncomfortable, Unwanted, or Worse?

A while back a college student named Liz Funk posted an op-ed at Women’s e-news that drew a lot of criticism because it was rather appallingly framed in a way that made rape victims seem at least partly responsible for … Continue reading

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A Rape Story

The Miami Herald posted a story about a man accused of raping and torturing his wife to make porn video. Another account, from CNN, is here. It reports: A man kidnapped his wife, raped and tortured her and then hung … Continue reading

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Thirtieth Carnival of the Feminists

Here, at Girlistic.com.

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The ERA Campaign Network

The ERA Campaign Newtork is “[a] network of people all around the United States, supporting and/or working to achieve the addition of The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to our United States Constitution.” Check out their informative website. Also, there is … Continue reading

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Meredith Render, “The Man, the State and You: The Role of the State in Regulating Gender Hierarchies”

The abstract: This paper begins with the thesis that an andocentric-assimilation model of women’s liberation both has affected workplace outcomes for women and has desensitized us to those outcomes. The paper then applies that thesis to understandings of “equality” within … Continue reading

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Johanna’s Law

The President signed Johanna’s Law on Friday, providing for a gynecological awareness and education campaign. Since many gynecological cancers are not diagnosed until they are in the later stages, they can be particularly deadly. I am copying our press release … Continue reading

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Tillie Olsen Memorial

Via the wonderful Sinister Girl: Tillie Olsen‘s family would like to let people in the San Francisco Bay Area know about her memorial celebration. Please circulate this information widely — the family is trying to get this information out to … Continue reading

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The Sewall-Belmont House and Museum in Washington, DC

From the Museum’s webpage:   The Sewall-Belmont House and Museum, on Capitol Hill, explores the evolving role of women and their contributions to society through the continuing, and often untold, story of women’s pursuit for equality. The Museum is the … Continue reading

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“Jane Fonda on the Fight for An Equitable Media”

From the WMC press release: In a powerful address to the just concluded National Conference on Media Reform, WMC founding board member Jane Fonda called for a strong and progressive media, one that captures the essence of democracy by fully … Continue reading

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Internet Shaming

The WSJ reported: Last month, Eva Burgess was eating breakfast at the Rose Cafe in Venice, Calif., when she remembered she needed to make an appointment with her eye doctor. So the New York theater director got on her cellphone … Continue reading

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The Cringe Book

Here’s the Cringe book webpage, which says: We’re looking for brave souls willing to share their old diaries, journals, letters, notes, songs, poems… anything you wrote during the crushing misery of adolescence and then saved in a hidden box at … Continue reading

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Interview with Martha Nussbaum in Eurozine

Available here. Below is an excerpt: SV: And one final question about feminism, a more philosophical question. I have always felt that you have a critical attitude towards the more extreme feminist views. I think of people like Andrea Dworkin … Continue reading

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“Vancouver’s 69 Missing Women: Murdered by Men, Remembered by Women”

Read Heart’s post here. It features portaits…: …created by a group of artists troubled over the fact that photos of the missing women which appeared in newspapers were stark, dehumanizing mugshots, the women characterized as”prostitutes”or”hookers”   or”drug addicts,”as though any … Continue reading

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Celia R. Daileader, “Racism, Misogyny, and the Othello Myth”

From the publisher’s webpage: Through readings of texts spanning four centuries, and bridging the Atlantic – from genres as diverse as English Renaissance drama, abolitionist literature, gothic horror and contemporary romance – Daileader questions why Anglo-American culture’s most widely-read and … Continue reading

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Huck Finn

Go to playwright Nancy McClernan’s blog and read about her new play! Here’s an excerpt from one recent post: I’ve been reimagining Twain’s Tom/Huck stories since I was a little kid and my friend Laura and I wrote our own … Continue reading

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Today, In Honor of Dr. King, Remember That The First “C” In SCLC Stands For Christian

The American Civil Rights Movement was born and nurtured in the African American churches of the South, and the first President of the SCLC was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Today, try to remember that while a whole lot of … Continue reading

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Accidentally Appearing In A Porn Movie Is So Hilarious

At least according to the NYT. And looking for the film he appeared in gives the author a reason to view lots of porn, accordind to the final sentences of the piece, because otherwise he didn’t have one. Or something.

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Woman in water drinking contest dies

The bottled water sellers lie: People with unfettered access to fluids suffer more frequently from overhydration (a.k.a. water intoxication) than from dehydration. See also. This woman apparently drank herself to death, trying to win a prize for her children. Update: … Continue reading

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The Legality of Wiki Linking In Dispute

On 12.21.06 the NYT reported: For at least a year, Eli Lilly provided information to doctors about the blood-sugar risks of its drug Zyprexa that did not match data that the company circulated internally when it first reviewed its clinical … Continue reading

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“A Guide To Article Graphics In Law Magazines”

Some truth in this satire (scroll down), though Southern lawers got left out. They too are presumptively male, and are often photographed at college football games.

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Dorothy A. Brown, “Pensions and Risk Aversion: The Influence of Race, Ethnicity, and Class on Investor Behavior”

Here is the abstract: Defined Contribution plans have greatly expanded over the last two decades. Defined Contribution plans place the investment risk on employees. Employee investment decision making should be examined to determine whether those decisions are influenced by race, … Continue reading

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Cheerleaders

An article entitled “Equal Cheers for Boys and Girls Draw Some Boos” in today’s NYT reports: Thirty girls signed up for the cheerleading squad this winter at Whitney Point High School in upstate New York. But upon learning they would … Continue reading

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Amicus Brief in Support of a Grant of Certiorari in the Tamoxifen Citrate Case

There are serious public health consequences related to the Tamoxifen Citrate case (Tamoxifen Citrate Antitrust Litigation, 429 F.3d 370 (2d Cir. 2005)), particularly for women’s health. The maneuvering to keep the Zeneca monopoly deprived women of generic competition for nearly … Continue reading

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If Only Feminists Would Be Nicer, We’d Get More Equality

Guess I’ve already ruined my chances with the title of this post, but did you catch this in Lois Romano’s column in the WaPo (scroll to “final note” at bottom)? We heard a number of complaints last week because we … Continue reading

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Peggy Noonan Thinks Nancy Pelosi Wore The Wrong Thing To A Meeting With Bush

Here is an excerpt from Noonan’s recent WSJ Op-Ed: When Nancy Pelosi showed up at the White House Wednesday to talk with the president it was obvious she’d spent a lot of time thinking about  .  .  . what to … Continue reading

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Bar’s “Ladies Night” Challenged Under Civil Rights Laws in Colorado

According to this article: It may be a last call for Ladies Night. A state civil rights agency is reportedly backing a man’s claims that he was discrimated against at a Denver night club hosting a “Ladies Night.” Ladies Night … Continue reading

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Tony Snow, Feminist Police Officer?

I always thought “feminist police” accusations were fictions deployed by thin skinned bullies to avoid circumspection or admitting error. But then I read this in the NYT: … During the hearing itself, Ms. Rice did not appear to take issue … Continue reading

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Global Violence Against Women: The Secretary-General’s Study

Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Forum Brooklyn Law School Thursday, February 22, 2007 4:00-6:00 p.m. Reception to Follow About the Program: In December 2003, the General Assembly of the United Nations requested the Secretary-General to prepare an in-depth study … Continue reading

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“Virtual Women – Emerging Issues in Gender and Intellectual Property Law”

Thomas Jefferson School of Law announces its Seventh Annual Women and the Law Conference,  Virtual Women – Emerging Issues in Gender and Intellectual Property Law, to be held at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California, on Friday, … Continue reading

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“Law and the Emotions: New Directions in Scholarship”

U.C. Berkeley Law School (Boalt Hall), February 8th and 9th, 2007.   Sponsored by Boalt Hall Law School, DePaul Law School, The Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, The Vanderbilt Law School Law and Human Behavior Program, and The … Continue reading

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It’s Okay to Read Porn But Not To Appear Naked in Playboy?

That would be one conclusion to draw from this Yahoo News article: Sergeant in trouble for Playboy spread An Air Force staff sergeant who posed nude for Playboy magazine has been relieved of her duties while the military investigates, officials … Continue reading

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I Need To Remember To Be This Senior Colleague

From See Jane Compute: Recently, a senior woman colleague of mine, someone who I know but don’t know well, stepped up and went out of her way to protect my time by getting me out of a time-consuming service task. … Continue reading

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Revisions

Here is the text of a post from the blog “Life, Law and Gender” that was entitled: “A tremendous honor”: In a completely unexpected email, Catharine MacKinnon just asked me if I would consider working for her for a few … Continue reading

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New Ella Fitzgerald Postage Stamp

Story here that starts out with this cringe-inducing pun: “The lady is a stamp!”

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“There is widespread poverty. We have to sell off our children to survive. We are not proud of it, but we have to do it.”

Those are the final sentences of this article, entitled “Starving Afghans sell girls of eight as brides.” Below is an excerpt: Azizgul is 10 years old, from the village of Houscha in western Afghanistan. This year the wheat crop failed … Continue reading

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