Author Archives: Ann Bartow

List of Fellowships for Aspiring Law Professors

Here. I got my start in law teaching as an Hon. Abraham L. Freedman Graduate Teaching Fellow at Temple University’s School of Law and it was a wonderful experience. I learned how to teach in a supportive, mentor rich environment, … Continue reading

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Did Texas execute an innocent man?

Read this chilling New Yorker article about Cameron Todd Willingham to understand why this is a very real possibility. I do have to quibble with the description by one expert of a very questionable theory about arson propounded by two … Continue reading

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Elizabeth R. Sheyn, “Putting an End to an Unintentional Result: Why the Requirement that Female Immigrants Receive the Gardasil Vaccine Prior to Becoming Permanent Residents Should Be Suspended”

The abstract: This Article concerns the recent (August 2008) CDC-sponsored requirement that female immigrants to the United States receive the Gardasil vaccine prior to changing their residency status and, eventually, becoming naturalized citizens. The Article provides a background of the … Continue reading

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Yep, a letter is missing…

This is funny.

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All else being equal.

From here, via Froomkin.

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Video Memorial to Deceased Porn Actors

Here.   Produced by Shelley Lubben.

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Jessica Hester, “Sex and Food: What Feeding Porn Tells Us About Our Moralistic, Thinness-Obsessed Culture”

Article here. I don’t agree with all of the assumptions Hester makes but it is a thought provoking piece, anyway. –Ann Bartow

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Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan

Vitaphone newsreel from 1930. In this footage Sullivan and Keller demonstrate how Helen Keller learned to talk.

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The Scary Spectre of Professional Identity Theft

From Inside Higher Ed: One deleted e-mail marked the beginning of my ordeal. It was finals week, just before Christmas break, when I received a strange message asking me to comment on some kind of online political essay that I … Continue reading

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Deborah L. Rhode, The Injustice of Appearance

INTRODUCTION “It hurts to be beautiful”is a cliché I grew up with.”It hurts not to be beautiful”is a truth I acquired on my own. But not until finishing the research that led to this Article did I begin to grasp … Continue reading

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Where Are the Women? Texas Twofer Edition

First up: 50 SOUTH TEXAS LAW REVIEW, NO. 4, SUMMER, 2009. Symposium: Law, Ethics, and the War on Terror. 50 S. Tex. L. Rev. 617- 974 (2009). [H][L][W] Hansen, Victor. Understanding the role of military lawyers in the war on … Continue reading

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The WNBA’s Washington Mystic refuse to allow a KissCam beause they don’t want to show lesbians kissing.

Television shows love to show women kissing each other. The Washington Mystics, not so much.

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“Mystery Suspect in the “Obesity Epidemic””

This article at The Icarus Project asserts that there may be an under examined link between psychotropic drugs and the “obesity epidemic.” Below is an excerpt: … The increase in the average American’s weight has paralleled the warp speed increase … Continue reading

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Are You a Good, Bad or Crazy Colleague?

Rate yourself here.

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The Margaret Sanger Papers Project

A lot gets written and said about Margaret Sanger. This NYU archive provides readers with access to her actual words. It also offers rebuttals to mischaracterizations of her views, and other information about Sanger and her work. –Ann Bartow

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Dan Kahan, “Culture, Cognition, and Consent: Who Perceives What, and Why, in ‘Acquaintance Rape’ Cases” – A Request for Input

Prof. Dan Kahan has written a paper that reports the results of an experimental study of perceptions of consent and other facts in a hypothetical date rape case (patterned closely on Commonwealth v. Berkowitz [court stated that the legislature intended … Continue reading

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Women have always outnumbered men in college;”Womyn”and”waitperson”have always been in the dictionary.

Those are two excerpts from The Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2013.

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Kate Harding on Cyberbullying

Via The Guardian. Here is the first paragraph: This week, a New York state supreme court judge ruled that Google (owners of Blogger.com) must turn over the electronic identity of an anonymous blogger who repeatedly attacked New York model Liskula … Continue reading

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Mentoring Tip

Do not teach in these pants.

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Has the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights put universities on notice that indifference to online harassment could result in liability under Title IX?

From the Title IX Blog: … The Department of Education addressed for the first time whether schools could violate Title IX by failing to respond appropriately to sexual harassment on-line, according to advocacy group Security On Campus. The agency was … Continue reading

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Test Everybody or Test Nobody

Athletics is one area where legally enforced gender binaries *may* be a necessary evil, if women’s athletics is to survive. But even if this is true, the evil needs to be minimized as much as possible. Requiring people to submit … Continue reading

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“The Terrible Bargain We Have Regretfully Struck”

That is the title of a brilliant post by Melissa McEwan at Shakesville, here. And there is a follow up here. –Ann Bartow

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Hillary Clinton’s Gender Agenda

From this NYT interview with Secretary of State Clinton: “Democracy means nothing if half the people can’t vote, or if their vote doesn’t count, or if their literacy rate is so low that the exercise of their vote is in … Continue reading

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Kicking “RateMyProfessor” Old School

From “Annoying Habits of College Professors” (circa 1935 to 1937)” in Scientific American: … In a series of related articles published in the The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology (in 1935 and 1937), Moore instructed a group of over … Continue reading

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Order Without Law

Well, more or less (emphasis on “less”) … –Ann Bartow

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“What Were Laura Ling and Euna Lee Looking For in North Korea?”

Ji-Yeon Yuh poses this question in this post at the Women’s Media Center. Here is an excerpt: … Proportionally, the trafficking of North Korean women into China is a small part of an enormous worldwide criminal enterprise … However, of … Continue reading

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The Recorded Voice of Virginia Woolf

Here!

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The “little girl who goes to public school in Dillon” is still hoping.

At about the 3:05 mark in this well known video: Obama references “the little girl who goes to public school in Dillon,” and he means Dillon, South Carolina, part of the Corridor of Shame (click link to view trailer). On … Continue reading

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On Tasers and “Disorderly Conduct”

When I was a kid I used to watch “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom” with some regularity, and learned that tranquilizer darts could stop large angry charging animals (lions, elephants, hippos) as well as much smaller critters very quickly in … Continue reading

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PETA gets the Onion treatment.

The line “We have no intention of changing our tactics until every last animal on the planet is given more respect than woman” barely registers as satire, PETA’s ads are so awful. Via this Jezebel post, which also has a … Continue reading

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Marie Claire magazine is featuring an article entitled “The New Trophy Wives: Asian Women”

Written by a woman named Ying Chu and accessible online here, the theme of the piece is reflected in its final sentence: “Asian women dating white men may never really know if it’s a fetish thing.” There are a lot … Continue reading

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“Echoes: 50 Years of Progress for Women in Politics. Satisfied Yet?”

A look at how far women have come in politics in the last 50 years, and at why we still have much further to go. From The New Agenda, thenewagenda.net. Via.

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“Wilder Women”

That’s the title of this interesting New Yorker article about Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter Rose. Via.

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Paranoid or Dead: The modern woman’s dilemma.

That’s a line from this post by Amanda Hess entitled Rape Prevention Tips From Rapists: Stay Inside Or Die A Horrible Death. Here’s a short excerpt: It’s not difficult to parse the real message in this advice:If you don’t want … Continue reading

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Sex Stereotyping, Legal Research and Feminist Activism

[From Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis student Amelia Deibert] I thought you all would be interested in an experience I had with Westlaw recently: I  was  researching  cross-examination tactics, and I happened upon an American Jurisprudence Trials article … Continue reading

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“‘Women are getting more beautiful’ – Getting the story right”

I blogged about this previously, and found a response by the study author, Marcus Jokela via a link to my post, the title of which is misunderstood, as I was accusing the Times Online of sexism, not the researcher. Anyway, … Continue reading

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“Comprehensive Health Insurance Reform: An Essential Prescription for Women”

That is the title of a new report issued by the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, chaired by Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY). Below is the abstract: The status-quo health insurance system is serving women poorly. An estimated 64 million women lack … Continue reading

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Judge Reportedly Questioned Whether Woman Was Raped Because She Was “On Top”

That’s the headline from this blog post, which reports that Texas State District Judge Kevin Fine, elected as a Democrat, is alleged to have told a rape victim in his court that he didn’t believe she was raped because she … Continue reading

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“Resources for Lawyers with Substance Abuse Questions”

From Leadership, Women, Lawyers: Here are resources specifically for lawyers with substance abuse questions, in all 50 states and DC: Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland … Continue reading

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“REAL VS. FAKE: Photoshopped Celebrities, Before & After” at StilettoREVOLT

Terrific post here, below is a short excerpt: [1] Jessica Alba Repositioned her head, eyes, and hair strands, Thinned waist, thighs and knees, Raised and enhanced chest/cleavage. [2] Penelope Cruz De-frizzed and repositioned hair strands, Lowered neckline, enhanced cleavage, Thinned … Continue reading

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Why doesn’t the media talk more about the fact that Laura Ling and Euna Lee were investigating sex trafficking?

Wouldn’t you think the media would be a little more invested in figuring out why Ling and Lee were considered threats by North Korea? It’s because they were investigating sex trafficking for Current TV, as only briefly noted in this … Continue reading

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Glenn Beck Jokes About Poisoning Nancy Pelosi

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From here, via Mike Madison.

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Women are supposed to be sexually available to men, that’s our assigned role; if we are hot, we are supposed to put out since we are signaling we want sex, and if we are not hot, we are supposed to be so grateful for male attention we do anything the attending dood wants. Otherwise, death to us…

Some links and post excerpts about the Sodini murders: Anna N. at Jezebel: Sodini was clearly disturbed, but his bilious diary displays an extreme version of a type of grievance misogyny that is all too common. His conviction that all … Continue reading

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Bridget Crawford is fantastic!

Everybody who knows Bridget already knows this of course. But I thought I’d remark on it anyway.     I’m very very lucky to have her as a friend and co-administrator of this blog. –Ann Bartow

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A “Joe Job”?

There was a disturbance in the social media network yesterday, which especially effected Twitter and Facebook. The WaPo reports: … Some news outlets, such as The Register, say the surge in Internet traffic that crushed Twitter was the result of … Continue reading

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Somebody needs a brain makeover.

There is a post at the Chron blog entitled “Blonded by Science” that states: A dismal 7 percent of adult Americans are science literate, but James Trefil has a secret weapon that could send that number cartwheeling into the double … Continue reading

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Reg Graycar and Jenny Jane Morgan, “Equality Rights: What’s Wrong?”

Abstract: In 2009, Australia is debating whether to have a national bill of rights and remains one of the last western democracies that has not yet legislated for (or indeed constitutionally entrenched) some form of human rights law. Nor is … Continue reading

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