Author Archives: Bridget Crawford

CFP: Law, Culture and Biopolitics

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

From the FLP mailbox, this CFP: 16th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities University of London, Birkbeck March 22 and March 23, 2013 Sculpting the Human: Law, Culture and Biopolitics In recent … Continue reading →

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Should NOW Retire?

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Over at The Next Stage: Women and Retirement, Karen Bojar (Community College of Philadelphia, ret.) writes: NOW is a national organization with a domestic agenda. When NOW was founded in 1966 there was no visible global feminist movement. Much has … Continue reading →

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Call for Nominees for AALS Section on Women in Legal Education Lifetime Achievement Award

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

This year the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education will award, for the first time, a Lifetime Achievement award. The purpose of the Lifetime Achievement Award is to honor an individual who has had a distinguished career of teaching, … Continue reading →

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Law Prof Riff on Chescaleigh’s “No Homo” Substitutes

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

The very funny Franchesca Ramsey (nom de video blog= Chescaleigh) pokes fun at the phrase “no homo,” a verbal addendum following a compliment, designed to distance the speaker from any implication that the speaker is gay or lesbian. You can … Continue reading →

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Cal State Fullerton Course on “Understanding and Addressing Bullying”

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Karyl Ketchum (Women & Gender Studies, Cal State Fullerton) has created a You Tube Channel organized around the theme of “Bullying: Understanding its Underlying Dynamics.” Here‘s the description: The videos on this channel will change the way you understand bullying! … Continue reading →

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One More Reason to Love Gloria Gaynor

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Gloria Gaynor is currently serving as a spokesperson for the National Network to End Domestic Violence. Here‘s the group’s announcement: For more than three decades, “I Will Survive” has been a beacon of hope for countless victims of domestic violence … Continue reading →

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Jessica Gonzales v. United States: Blog Resource and Film Announcement

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Filmmakers April Hayes and Katia Maguire are in the process of producing Jessica Gonzales v. United States, a documentary about one woman’s legal battle on behalf of domestic violence survivors. Here is the producers’ description of the film: In 1999, … Continue reading →

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CFP: “Black Women in Politics”

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

From the FLP mailbox: The editors of The National Political Science Review (NPSR) invite submissions from the scholarly community for review and possible publication for a Special Issue on: BLACK WOMEN IN POLITICS: MOVING FORWARD — NEW QUESTIONS, NEW DIRECTIONS … Continue reading →

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Book Igloo by Miler Lagos

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

The book igloo is the work of artist Miler Lagos. Love it! -Bridget Crawford

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Where are the Women? Washington Law Review Edition

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Volume 87 | June 2012 | Issue 2 June 2012 Symposium: The First Amendment in the Modern Age Foreword: The Guardians of Knowledge in the Modern State: Post’s Republic and the First Amendment Ronald K.L. Collins & David M. Skover Essays: … Continue reading →

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Contributions Welcome to Wikipedia Page in Memory and Honor of Ann Scales

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

From Rebecca Hunter (Harvard, Derek Bok Center), this information about a Wikipedia page in honor of Ann Scales: She was my sister Anne Hunter’s best friend at Wellesley and I met her several times on their adventures. I have arranged … Continue reading →

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In Memory of Ann Scales 1952-2012

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

From the University of Denver College of Law: University of Denver professor Ann C. Scales died June 24 in Denver Hospice, the result of a brain injury sustained following a fall in her home. She was 60. Scales came to … Continue reading →

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In Memory of Ann Scales

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Professor Ann Scales died on Sunday, June 24, 2012 after injuries sustained in an accident. May her memory be a blessing. At this time, plans for a memorial service are tentative. I will post any information I receive. -Bridget Crawford

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Sexual Assualt Survivor on Being a Pro-Life Surrogate

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Kimberly, the “homeschooling mother of 4, surrogate mother of 2, and a military wife” over at A Little Crunchy, writes a bit about her decision to be a surrogate mother: I had been assaulted sexually when I was little, it twisted my … Continue reading →

Posted in Feminism and Families, Reproductive Rights | 1 Comment

Dr. K. Ryan Ziegler on Being a Black Male Feminist

Posted on June 23, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Over at blac(k)ademic v.2, Dr. K. Ryan Ziegler writes (here) about how his past “as a black woman informs [his] black male feminist perspective today. Here is an excerpt: For some transmen, their female past conjures up memories of pain … Continue reading →

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Ann Scales – In Our Thoughts

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

From Law Week Colorado (here): University of Denver law professor Ann Scales this week was moved to hospice after last week suffering an unknown brain trauma. She was taken off life-support on Friday. “She’s still alive, but they’re not holding … Continue reading →

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If Anne-Marie Slaughter is a Dropout, We’re Chopped Liver

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Over here at The American Prospect, E.J. Graff (Brandeis, Women’s Studies) has a great analysis of Anne-Marie Slaughter’s article Why Women Still Can’t Have It All from the July/August issue of The Atlantic. Graff responds to the italicized portions of … Continue reading →

Posted in Employment Discrimination, Feminism and Culture, Feminism and Economics, Feminism and Families | 1 Comment

Cartoon History, Woman Suffrage and the Kewpie Doll

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Comicbookgrrrl has an informative post (here) about cartoonist Rose O’Neill: Rose O’Neill is regarded as the first woman cartoonist (1874-1944). Self taught, and from a poor family, her parents ensured she was never without paper to draw on, and her … Continue reading →

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Hip Hop Blogger Speaks Out Against Sexist Bullying on the Internet

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Jay Smooth is the founder of New York’s longest running hip-hop radio show, WBAI’s Underground Railroad. He has a video blog, Ill Doctrine, here. He also video blogs at Animal New York, here, which bills itself as “a daily mix … Continue reading →

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“Mating, Spending and the Lipstick Effect”

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

“Boosting Beauty in an Economic Decline: Mating, Spending and the Lipstick Effect” is the title of a paper forthcoming in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology by Sarah E. Hill and Christopher D. Rodeheffer (Psychology, Texas Christian University), Vladas … Continue reading →

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Sisters Speaking Out, Nuns on the Bus

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

From the AP: The accompanying news story (here) explains: A group of Roman Catholic nuns began a nine-state bus tour protesting proposed federal budget cuts Monday, saying they weren’t trying to flout recent Vatican criticisms of socially active nuns but … Continue reading →

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Phoebe Hart, “ORCHIDS: My Intersex Adventure”

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

A documentary by Australian filmmaker Phoebe Hart aired on Showtime earlier this month. Here’s the distributor’s description of the film “ORCHIDS: My Intersex Adventure”: Gen X filmmaker Phoebe Hart always knew she was different growing up – but she didn’t … Continue reading →

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Fenton, “An Essay on Slavery’s Hidden Legacy”

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Zanita Fenton (Miami) has published An Essay on Slavery’s Hidden Legacy: Social Hysteria and Structural Condonation of Incest, 55 Howard L.J. 319 (2012). Here is the abstract: The history of slavery and its effects within the United States, especially the … Continue reading →

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Choudhury, “A Comparative Perspective on Polygamy in the United States and India”

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Cyra Akila Choudhury (FIU) has posted to SSRN her article Between Tradition and Progress: A Comparative Perspective on Polygamy in the United States and India, 83 Colo. L. Rev. 101 (2012). Here is the abstract: Both the United States and … Continue reading →

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CFP: Gender, Public Space and Surveillance

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

From the FLP mailbox, this CFP: CALL FOR PAPERS Expanding the Gaze: Gender, Public Space, and Surveillance Deadline: September 15, 2012 The past decade has witnessed an explosion of scholarship covering the broad area of surveillance studies. Surveillance, or the … Continue reading →

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American Nuns Tell the Vatican, “We Don’t Need Your Stinkin’ Bishops”

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

From Reuters (here): The largest organization of U.S. Catholic nuns on Friday rejected a Vatican assessment that they had fallen under the sway of radical feminism and needed to hand control of their group over to a trio of bishops. … Continue reading →

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14-Year Old Boy “Emulating” Pornography Rapes 9-Year Old Girl

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

From the (UK) Guardian (here): A 12-year-old schoolboy who raped and sexually assaulted a younger girl after viewing hardcore pornography on the internet has been spared a custodial sentence. A judge was told that the boy, who is now aged … Continue reading →

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Hasday on “Siblings in Law”

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Jill Hasday (Minnesota) has posted to SSRN her article Siblings in Law, 65 Vanderbilt Law Review 897 (2012). Here is the abstract: Legal regulation of the family focuses on two canonical relationships: marriage and parenthood. Courts, legislatures, and scholars routinely take … Continue reading →

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Fellowship Announcement: Center for Reproductive Rights

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

From colleagues at the Center for Reproductive Rights: The Center for Reproductive Rights is thrilled to announce an academic fellowship opportunity for recent law school graduates who are interested in careers in law teaching. The CRR-CLS Fellowship is a two-year, post-graduate … Continue reading →

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Where are the Women? Stanford Law Review Edition

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Volume 64 • Issue 4 • April 2012 Articles The Tragedy of the Carrots: Economics and Politics in the Choice of Price Instruments Brian Galle 64 Stan. L. Rev. 797 “They Saw a Protest”: Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction Dan M. … Continue reading →

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Where are the Women? Harvard Symposium Edition

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Volume 125 · May 2012 · Number 7 ARTICLE Regulation for the Sake of Appearance Adam M. Samaha SYMPOSIUM THE NEW PRIVATE LAW Introduction: Pragmatism and Private Law John C.P. Goldberg The Obligatory Structure of Copyright Law: Unbundling the Wrong … Continue reading →

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Where are the Women? Illinois Law Review/Jack Balkin Edition

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

University of Illinois Law Review, Issue 2012:3 Symposium: Jack Balkin’s Constitutional Text and Principle The Method of Text and ?: Jack Balkin’s Originalism With No Regrets – Larry Alexander (PDF) Jack Balkin’s Interaction Theory of “Commerce” – Randy E. Barnett (PDF) The Balkinization … Continue reading →

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Tait on “Historical Households, Earned Belonging, and Natural Connections”

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Allison Tait (Gender Equity and Policy Postdoctoral Associate 2011-12, Yale Women Faculty Forum) has posted to SSRN her article “A Tale of Three Families: Historical Households, Earned Belonging, and Natural Connections,” 63 Hastings L. J. 1345 (2012). Here is the … Continue reading →

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Manian on “Functional Parenting and Dysfunctional Abortion Policy”

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Maya Manian (U San Francisco) has a new article out discussing how to reform laws mandating parental involvement for adolescent girls seeking abortion care: “Functional Parenting and Dysfunctional Abortion Policy: Reforming Parental Involvement Legislation,” 50 Family Court Review 241 (2012). … Continue reading →

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Women Occupying Wall Street: Well, a Meet-Up on the West Village

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

The Women’s Caucus of Occupy Wall Street is hosting its first big gathering tonight in Washington Square Park (in NYC’s Greenwich Village). Here‘s the announcement: The First Feminist General Assembly is Thursday, May 17 at 6:30 in Washington Square Park. … Continue reading →

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New Issue of Canadian Journal of Women and the Law

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

From our northern-dwelling colleagues, this notice of that Volume 24, Number 1, 2012 of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law is now available online. It’s also available at Project MUSE. Here’s the publisher’s plug for the on-line edition: CJWL … Continue reading →

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Inniss on “Bridging the Great Divide”

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Lolita Buckner Inniss has published Bridging the Great Divide–A Response to Linda Greenhouse and Reva B. Siegel’s Before (and After) Roe v. Wade: New Questions About Backlash, 89 Wash. U. L. Rev. 963 (2012). Here is the abstract: This essay … Continue reading →

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Ashe on “Women’s Wrongs, Religions’ Rights”

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Marie Ashe (Suffolk) has posted to SSRN her article Women’s Wrongs, Religions’ Rights: Women, Free Exercise, and Establishment in American Law, 21 Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review 163 (Fall 2011). Here is the abstract: This article provides an … Continue reading →

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Corbin on “Expanding the Bob Jones Compromise”

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Caroline Mala Corbin (Miami) has posted to SSRN her chapter “Expanding the Bob Jones Compromise,” which will appear in the forthcoming Cambridge U Press book edited by Austin Sarat, Matters of Faith: Religious Experiences and Legal Responses in the United … Continue reading →

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What If Dometic Violence Victims “Stand Their Ground” in Florida?

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Marissa Alexander, a mother of two, was denied a new trial after she was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison for shooting “in the direction of” her husband. Here’s Wonkette’s take: [A] Florida judge has decided that … Continue reading →

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Menstruating in Public

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Sarah Maple in her Studio; Photo by Andrew Hassen Folks with an interest in feminist art will want to check out the work of Sarah Maple, a visual artist based in Sussex, England. In a recent article in the (UK) … Continue reading →

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NYPD Pursues Father-Son Sex Trafficking Ring + Its Johns

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Last week, the Manhattan DA’s office unveiled charges against a father and son accused of running a sex trafficking ring. Six livery cab drivers were indicted for their roles in the operation as promoters of prostitution. Both the two pimps … Continue reading →

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What’s the Difference Between a “Gender Quota” and “Gender Balance”?

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, writing for the Harvard Business Review Blog Network, describes it this way: Most companies looking to balance genders in their workforces set a target for the number of women in the organization. Royal Dutch Shell, for example, has committed … Continue reading →

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Angela Davis on Abortion Rights in Context

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

In February, Angela Davis spoke at the University of Kansas to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the protest by the campus group February Sisters that advocated for no-cost daycare, a women’s health and other facilities for women. (For more on … Continue reading →

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Yuvraj Joshi, “Respectable Queerness”

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

London-based writer Yuvraj Joshi has published Respectable Queerness, 43 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 415 (2012). Here is the abstract: This Article proposes a new theoretical framework to understand public recognition of gay people and relationships. This framework — called … Continue reading →

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FLP Interview with Jen Mullins

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

I recently met Jennifer Mullins, a Legal Rhetoric faculty member at American University Washington College of Law, where she is one of two 2011–2012 Graduate Teaching Fellows. Professor Mullins graduated cum laude from the Washington College of Law in 2011. … Continue reading →

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“How Can There Be Too Much Focus on Poverty and Injustice?”

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

A reader of the NY Times sent in this letter to the paper after reading about the Vatican’s condemnation (see here) of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the largest organization of U.S. nuns: I am a lifelong Catholic, 80-plus … Continue reading →

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“A Civil Remedy” by Kate Nace Day

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Suffolk University Law Professor Kate Nace Day‘s documentary film A Civil Remedy will be shown on Saturday, April 26, 2012 at the Brattle Theater in Harvard Square. If you’re in the Boston area or planning to be there, the screening … Continue reading →

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Cary Franklin, “Inventing the ‘Traditional Concept’ of Sex Discrimination”

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Cary Franklin (Texas) has posted to SSRN her article, Inventing the “Traditional Concept” of Sex Discrimination,125 Harv. L. Rev. 1307 (2012). Here is the abstract: It is a commonplace in employment discrimination law that Title VII’s prohibition of sex discrimination … Continue reading →

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CFP: “Institutional Responsibility for Sex and Gender Exploitation”

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

From the FLP mailbox: Call for Papers Announcement AALS Section on Women in Legal Education “Institutional Responsibility for Sex and Gender Exploitation” 2013 AALS Annual Meeting January 4-7, 2013 New Orleans, Louisiana The AALS Section on Women in Legal Education … Continue reading →

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