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“I Know She Liked Her Mother….”
From the AP: A former Ivy League professor pleaded guilty Monday to voluntary manslaughter for killing his wife as she wrapped Christmas presents last year, telling a judge he “just lost it” during an argument. Rafael Robb [shown at right], … Continue reading
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Hollywood Skips Around the Word”Abortion”
But the box office draw is always on the corporate moguls’s minds. See this article for commentary from the (UK) Guardian on films like “Juno” and “Knocked Up.” -Ralph Michael Stein
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Why Michael/Michelle is not a Grandpa Munster Problem
The New York Times reports here that a transgender politician is being sued for election fraud by an unsuccessful opponent. The opponent claims that voters were misled by the candidate’s identification as “Michelle Bruce,” even though she had served … Continue reading
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Criminal Conviction for Fetal Murder not Incompatible with Abortion Rights, Says Texas
A Texas man appealed his conviction for killing his pregnant girlfriend and the fetus she carried. He asserted violation of his substantive due process rights, inter alia, on the grounds that the fetus was not viable (and therefore its … Continue reading
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Abuse of Jailed Teen in Brazil
From the AP, this story: Arrested on a charge of theft, a teenage girl was locked up in an Amazon jail for weeks with 21 men who would only let her eat in return for sex. The 15-year-old performed sex … Continue reading
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Women and the Nineteenth Century Origins of a National Thanksgiving
On the origins of Thanksgiving as a national holiday, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History features this article, “Giving Thanks: Women Move to Create a Holiday” on its sponsored website historynow.org: [T]he idea of a permanent, national day of … Continue reading
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Allen on “The Case for Cyberfeminism”
Feminist Law Prof Anita L. Allen (Penn) has posted to SSRN her essay “A Dialogue Among Dolls: The Case for Cyberfeminism.” Here is the abstract: Four dolls, two plastic and two biological are seated around a … Continue reading
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Research Grants Available: Sallie Bingham Center, Duke University
The Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, part of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, has announced the availability of grants ts for travel to its collections: The Sallie Bingham Center documents the … Continue reading
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A Six-Pack of Bar Exam Disaster Brewing in New York
Today the New York State Board of Law Examiners issued this press release: The Board examined a record 10,907 candidates during two days of testing conducted on July 24-25, 2007. *** Over 5,000 candidates chose to take the essay portion … Continue reading
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Why Subprime Lending is a Race and Gender Issue
In general terms, subprime loans are “non-conforming” loans made at higher-than-market-interest rates to borrowers with credit problems. Predatory loans are loans that are inappropriate for the buyer, either because the buyer is not qualified financially or the loan is … Continue reading
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Call for Contributions to Book on “Everyday Pornographies”
From the FLP Mailbox: Invitation to contribute to EVERYDAY PORNOGRAPHIES Edited by Karen Boyle (University of Glasgow, Scotland) In recent years, the boundary between the pornographic and the mainstream has been a recurrent concern in academic and popular writing about … Continue reading
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“Women Making Presence Known at N.J. Statehouse”
From the AP, an article with the title above: Need proof that New Jersey voters just elected a record number of women to the Legislature? Check out the line outside the Statehouse ladies room. “For the first time in anyone’s … Continue reading
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Some People Are ___. ___ People Are Not Tokens.
The UK group Stonewall developed the simple and powerful ad at left for their “Education for All” campaign that addresses homophobia and bullying in secondary schools. (Stonewall makes the poster available for download here.) Stonewall has undertaken an … Continue reading
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Sloan Work-Family Career Development Grant Program
From the FLP Mailbox: The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of Work-Family Career Development Grants. This program will award grants to up to five (5) junior faculty members who are investigating important work … Continue reading
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Academic (and Other) Impersonators
From the Chronicle of Higher Education issue dated November 9, 2007, this article on successful academics who feel like they are merely impersonating successful academics: On a recent evening, Columbia University held a well-attended workshop for young academics who … Continue reading
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Moral (Meaning Religious) Objections to Emergency Contraception
From the AP: A federal judge has suspended Washington state’s requirement that pharmacists sell “morning-after” birth control pills, a victory for druggists who say their moral objections to the drug are being bulldozed by the government. The full story is … Continue reading
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Merton’s Letter to Musharraf: The Whole World Is Watching Pakistan
Feminist Law Professor Vanessa Merton (Pace University) wrote this letter to Pakistan President Musharraf. I post it here with her permisson. Dear President Musharraf: As an attorney and professor of law at a New York law school, I write … Continue reading
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Law Profs and Others Invited to Sign on to Yale Statement on Pakistan
From the FLP mailbox: The following statement was released Wednesday, November 7, 2007, by Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh, Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law Peter Schuck, Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fellow in Law Jeff Redding, and other members … Continue reading
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There Is No Right to Withhold Child Support
Here’s the frivolous lawsuit of the week. I wonder if the judge will award attorney’s fees. The National Center for Men seems like a hooplehead outfit. A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit nicknamed … Continue reading
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Mainstream Magazine to Drop Ads Selling Sex
From a local NY television station: A popular magazine has agreed to stop running sex ads in its back pages. New York Magazine said it will no longer accept the classified ads, after the local chapter of the National Organization … Continue reading
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ABA’s Statement on Pakistan
From the FLP Mailbox: Since Saturday, President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan has suspended the national constitution, detained eight members of the Supreme Court and arrested more than 1,500 Pakistani lawyers. This is a profound breach of the rule … Continue reading
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A Tale of Two Books
I’m a total, pathological book collector (I can read too). An engineer required that my house have steel posts installed in the basement for fear of a collapse. So, rarely can forty-eight hours pass by without my stopping … Continue reading
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Public Attitudes on Contraceptives in High Schools
This poll shows increased support for the providing of prescription contraceptives in public high schools. The differences in support based on age, income and race are hardly surprising. -Ralph Michael Stein
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High School Cute-ical
From a CBS affiliate in Chicago: A couple that met during drama class and has been going out for nearly a year was voted “cutest couple” during an annual senior yearbook poll last week at Waukegan High School. But for … Continue reading
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Sale of Breast Milk
From the AP, this story about a woman in Iowa: A woman who doesn’t want her breast milk to go to waste has taken out a newspaper ad in hopes of selling it. Martha Heller, 22, of Tiffin, took … Continue reading
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New and Good Things Happening at Ms. JD
From the FLP mailbox: Ms. JD wants you to help us promote women in the legal profession! Male or female, 1L or 3L, we hope that you’ll turn to Ms. JD to find and ask questions on interviewing, taking the … Continue reading
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May Panties Rain Down on the Myanmar Junta
From the (UK) Guardian Unlmited: Activists exasperated at the failure of diplomacy to apply pressure on Burma’s military regime are resorting to a new means of protest against the regime’s recent crackdown: sending female underwear to Burmese embassies. Embassies in … Continue reading
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The “French Maid” Halloween Costume for Girls
Halloween is almost upon us. Costumes sell big-time and many kids love to go out bedecked in all manner of disguise. What isn’t good, what is very offensive is putting”French Maid”outfits on prepubescent girls. For whose enjoyment … Continue reading
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On Consent and Mutuality
Genarlow Wilson was convicted under Georgia state law of “aggravated child molestation” for receiving oral sex from a 15-year old girl who “willingly” performed it, according to facts undisputed at trial. News reports including this one from the New … Continue reading
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Karen Finley’s Wake Up!
In her new performance,”Wake Up!,”culture-war survivor Karen Finley presents her two-part show, comprised of”The Dreams of Laura Bush”and”The Passion of Terri Schiavo.” The genius here is connecting these two women who define the perils for feminism and women … Continue reading
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Being a Victim of Domestic Violence and a Model Employee
From this article in today’s New York Times, on the importance of workplace inititives to support victims of domestic violence: On one level, it is hard to imagine why any victim of domestic violence would not ask for help. But … Continue reading
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On Bettina Aptheker
Here is an interesting article about Bettina Aptheker and her relationship with her historian/father, Herbert. During the 1960s and early 70s, Bettina Aptheker Kurzweil, as she was then known, was a figure of real interest to the F.B.I. and … Continue reading
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Genarlow Wilson To Be Released
Today the Georgia Supreme Court ordered the release of Genarlow Wilson. Wilson was sentenced to 11 years in prison (with a mandatory 10-year sentence) for receiving, at a time when he was 17, oral sex from a 15-year old … Continue reading
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Some People Like Us Some of the Time
Two of the top three “best NY-based law bloggers” are Feminist Law Professors’ very own Caitlin Borgmann and Bridget Crawford (results from the contest at sui generis are here).
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Trend Toward Double Masectomies
From the AP: More women who have cancer in only one breast are getting both breasts removed, says research that found the trend more than doubled in just six years. It’s still a rare option: Most breast cancer in … Continue reading
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Lethal Domestic Violence Declines in Maryland
A Maryland program may be reducing the incidence of deadly domestic violence against women. More information is here. -Ralph Michael Stein
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Death of Peg Bracken, Author of “I Hate to Cook Book”
From her AP obituary (available here): Peg Bracken, author of the “I Hate to Cook Book,” which sold more than 3 million copies after it appeared in 1960, died Saturday. She was 89.* * * The book appeared was intended … Continue reading
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Call for Presenters: Women and Crime, Violence, Self-Defense
From the FLP Mailbox: Call for Presenters: Law & Society – Montreal 2008 Working on a project involving women & crime, domestic violence, self-defense and/or the role of emotions in Criminal Law? I’m looking for feminist-friendly co-panelists for a … Continue reading
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Birth Control for Middle Schoolers?
Birth control for middle schoolers? A decision by a Maine school board to offer prescription contraception to middle school girls (high schoolers already have that access) is roiling the political waters and bringing both dissent and support from a … Continue reading
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Blogging as a Feminist Legal Method
Back in May, we blogged here about this great post by em at hermanifesta suggesting that blogging is a new feminist legal method. The mainstream press has noticed young women’s embrace of the internet. The October 13, 2007 … Continue reading
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Female Teachers Who Have Sex With Minors
It seems like reports of female teachers having sex with underage boys (and girls) are increasingly common. Is it more reporting, more scrutiny or has there been a true uptick in this type of criminality? Consider this article … Continue reading
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Breast Cancer T-Shirt Sale Banned
No sense of humor; no sense of priorities; a school bans sales of a t-shirt with an eye-catching message about breast cancer. The story is here. -Ralph Michael Stein P.S. The linked story by cnn doesn’t mention … Continue reading
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You Can Get Your Satisfaction
“Feminism boosts sexual satisfaction for both men and women, a new study suggests,” so says this news report. Jessica Valenti made the same observation in Full Frontal Feminism (blogged here). We’ve known it for years. Hat tip to … Continue reading
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Best NY-Based (No Further Adjective) Bloggers
Two Feminist Law Professors, Caitlin Borgmann (also of Reproductive Rights Prof Blog) and Bridget Crawford, are nominated in the “Best NY-based Blogger” contest over at suigeneris. You can vote here.
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Using Facebook to Identify Attackers
An earlier post described how police used bragging posts on Facebook to identify suspects in the beating of an Indiana woman. Now this from cnn.com: Using a Facebook profile, police arrested a suspect in an attack on the Georgetown … Continue reading
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Hillary/Elizabeth
This week saw the release of “Elizabeth: The Golden Age.” Quick on the heels of the imprimatur of the solidly conservative Economist stating that the 2008 election is Hillary’s to lose, the film gives life to our culture’s fascination … Continue reading
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Allen’s “Atmospherics”
Feminist Law Prof Anita L. Allen (U. of Pennsylvania) has posted to ssrn her working paper, “Atmospherics: A Llewellynesque Comment on Abortion Law.” Here is the abstract: In 1934, Karl N. Llewellyn published a lively essay trumpeting the dawn … Continue reading
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Attackers Brag on Facebook
A local Indiana television station reported this story: Police said five women, four of them Ball State University students, brutally attacked another woman and then bragged on the Internet about what they had done. The attack happened in an off-campus … Continue reading
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Duquesne U. Interferes with Public Radio Affiliate
I was working from home today, so I didn’t listen to the news programming on WDUQ as I usually do on the way home from work. WDUQ is the flagship NPR affiliate in Pittsburgh, broadcasting from the campus of Duquesne … Continue reading
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Rosenbury on “Friends with Benefits”
Feminist Law Prof Laura Rosenbury (Washington University in St. Louis School of Law) has posted to ssrn her article, “Friends With Benefits.” Here is the abstract: Family law has long been intensely interested in certain adult intimate relationships, namely … Continue reading
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