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Author Archives: Bridget Crawford
Is “Good for the Goose” a Gendered Phrase?
“What’s good for the goose is good for the gander” is a phrase I haven’t heard in a long time. A friend used it yesterday to describe why an individual, whom I will call Person B, engaged in particular … Continue reading
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Whew!
The Oregon Office of Secretary of State announced yesterday that opponents of the state’s recently-enacted domestic partnership regime failed in their attempt to collect enough signatures to put a referendum on the ballot next year allowing voters to accept or … Continue reading
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Forced Womb Removal in Child’s Best Interests?
LONDON, England — A mother is seeking to have the womb of her severely disabled daughter removed to prevent the 15-year-old from feeling the pain and discomfort of menstruation. Doctors in Britain are now taking legal advice to see if … Continue reading
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Al Sharpton Calls for Boycott of Knicks
From wnyc.org, New York local public radio: Al Sharpton is vowing to lead protests against Madison Square Garden, unless Knicks coach Isiah Thomas apologizes for suggesting that blacks and whites should be held to different standards when it comes to … Continue reading
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The Quicksand of Facebook
Last week I received an invitation to join facebook from someone 15 years my senior (I’m late 30’s; he’s mid-50’s). The invitation came from a person I will call Mr. X, an alumnus of my college with whom I … Continue reading
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Message For Survivors of Rape, Incest and Sexual Abuse: “You are Lovable, Worthy and Deserve Good Things”
From the October 8, 2007 issue of Newsweek, one survivor of sexual abuse tells her story, which involved testifying as an adult against an uncle who abused her as a child: I tell you this story with trepidation. But my … Continue reading
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American Symphony Orchestra Performs Opera By Ethel Smyth
The American Symphony Orchestra presents works rarely if ever performed in public and its brilliant music director, Leon Botstein, insures that each season is one of genuine if sometimes uneven discovery. Last Sunday Edith Ethel Smyth’s opera, “The Wreckers,” was … Continue reading
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Ramachandran on Mansfield’s Manliness
Feminist Law Prof Gowri Ramachandran (Southwestern) has posted to ssrn her review of Manliness by Harvey Mansfield. Here is a portion of the abstract: In this book review, I provide an overview and partial critique of Harvey Mansfield’s Manliness. … Continue reading
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A Tale of Two Thomases
Yesterday a jury determined that Isiah Thomas sexually harassed Anucha Browne Sanders and that Madison Square Garden management fired Ms. Sanders in retaliation for reporting the harassment. According to this story in the New York Times: Mr. Thomas emerged … Continue reading
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Anita Hill Speaks Again (Is Anyone Listening?)
In case you missed it, Anita Hill’s op-ed in the Sunday New York Times (available here) was powerful. Of Thomas’s new book, My Grandfather’s Son, Hill wrote: …I will not stand by silently and allow him, in his anger, … Continue reading
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Cheap Birth Control at Wal-Mart
From the Kaiser Family Foundation’s kaisernetwork.org, this press release: Wal-Mart Stores on Thursday announced that it will begin selling eight additional generic drugs for $4 per 30-day prescription and several family-planning drugs for $9, USA Today reports (Appleby, USA Today, … Continue reading
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CFP: Law, Poverty and Economic Inequality
CONFERENCE – LAW, POVERTY AND ECONOMIC INEQUALITY Valparaiso University School of Law April 3-4, 2008 The acceleration of economic globalization over the past few decades engendered initial excitement about the possibilities it could generate, but this excitement has been replaced … Continue reading
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Single-Minded Scholarship
From the Chronicle of Higher Education, this call from Bella DePaulo (Psychology, UCSB), Rachel F. Moran (Law, Boalt Hall) and E. Kay Trimberger (Women’s and Gender Studies, Sonoma State Univeristy) for more scholarly attention to single people: Even some of … Continue reading
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Words to the Wise New Feminist Law Professor
Today’s New York Lawyer carried this opinion-piece of advice from Elizabeth Rotenberg-Schwartz, a fourth-year associate in an NYC law firm. Her “Words to the Wise” are “tips for newbies, including the advice she regrets not following herself.” Most … Continue reading
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Marriage of Fools
Fools can marry, but they cannot make a last will and testament. To state the principle more precisely, the mental capacity required to enter into a legally binding marriage is lower than the mental capacity required to execute a valid … Continue reading
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If You Can’t Get It There, Can You Get It Anywhere?
The Public Advocate for the City of New York issued a press release assailing the limited availability of emergency contraception in New York: The New York City Health & Hospitals Corporation (HHC) is failing to provide New York City women … Continue reading
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When a Man is a “Bitch”
Isiah Thomas may or may not have called a particular female colleague a”bitch.” That’s for a jury to decide. But based on my own work experience, I wouldn’t be surprised if he did. Or if he didn’t, … Continue reading
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‘Bitch’ Is Not Ok
On the Isiah Thomas hostile work environment case, the blogger at thefieldnegro writes: I have to take issue with Isiah for seeming to imply that it’s cool for ‘us’ to call our women bitches. By saying there is a different … Continue reading
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Camille Paglia Reviews Sperm, Ejaculation and Impotence
In the latest issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education (available here; free registration required), Camille Paglia reviews three books: Lisa Jean Moore’s Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man’s Most Precious Fluid; Murat Aydemir’s Images of Bliss: Ejaculation, Masculinity, Meaning; and … Continue reading
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Monster.com on “juggling the responsibilities of a job, a marriage, a household and parenting”
“If you’re juggling the responsibilities of a job, a marriage, a household and parenting, a little assertiveness goes a long way,” according to this article on monster.com. -Ralph Michael Stein
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Say It Ain’t So, UC Davis
I received in today’s mail UC Davis School of Law’s glossy brochure announcing the school’s “New Faculty Members & Endowed Chairs and Professorships.” The Dean’s Message proudly proclaims, [T]he School now has six endowed Chairs and … Continue reading
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Feminist Law Prof Profile: Kim Brooks
Today’s TaxProf Blog has this profile of Tax Prof and Feminist Law Prof Kim Brooks (McGill). -Bridget Crawford
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A Mother, A Media Circus and the West Virginia Hate/Abuse Case
AnxiousBlackWoman has this trenchant commentary on the behavior of the mother of the woman who who was held captive, tortured and sexually abused for over a week in a West Virginia trailer: It wasn’t until yesterday that I tuned into … Continue reading
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CFP: Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop
UCLA School of Law, Columbia Law School, University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, and Georgetown University Law Center invite submissions for the sixth meeting of the Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop to be held at … Continue reading
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Women and Cardiac Disease
Women run a higher risk than men for having cardiac disease misdiagnosed or missed entirely. Check out this site for tips on avoiding what could be a fatal lack of adequate medical care. -Ralph Michael Stein
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If You Dare Wear Hair There
Today’s New York Times carries this article about “Nair Pretty,” the new depilatory product aimed at “first-time hair removers,” aka girls 10 to 15 years old. The product comes in kiwi and peach scents, in packages that show illustrations … Continue reading
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Female chimpanzees ‘sell’ sex for fruit
That’s the headline of this article from the (UK) Telegraph. -Ralph Michael Stein
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CFP:”Working From the World Up: Equality’s Future”A New Legal Realism Conference Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project
“Working From the World Up: Equality’s Future” A New Legal Realism Conference Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project Sponsored by: The University of Wisconsin Law School, the Institute for Legal Studies, the Feminism and Legal … Continue reading
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Doctors not Required to Describe Embryo as “Existing Human Being”
Yesterday the New Jersey Supreme Court issued this opinion in the case of Acuna v. Turkish, in which the plaintiff alleged a breach of duty by the defendant doctor for failing to inform the plaintiff that an abortion would result … Continue reading
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Notes to a Research Assistant
I’ve been polling colleagues about their experiences working with student research assistants. I’ve asked them what does (and does not) make for a successful professor-RA relationship. I’ve compiled some of their thoughts, added a few of my own … Continue reading
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Where Are You Ms. JD?
Remember the “Ms. JD” website (logo below), launched with great fanfare last academic year? (Ann previously blogged it here.) The site describes itself as a service to “women in law school and the legal profession”: Concerned by the … Continue reading
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A Woman’s Perspective on Polygamy
Provided here at cnn.com. -Ralph Michael Stein
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American Apparel’s Ad in New York
From wcbstv.com: A viewer email to wcbstv.com brought us to one of the new “city sights” on the Lower East Side. An American Apparel billboard shows a topless woman in a provocative pose. “I guess sex sells,” resident Peter Malade … Continue reading
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Cahn and Carbone on “Red Families vs. Blue Families”
Feminist Law Professor Naomi Cahn (George Washington Law School) and June Carbone (University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law) has posted to ssrn her article Red Families v. Blue Families. Here is a portion of the abstract: … Continue reading
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Mitt Romney, Flip-Flopper?
That Mitt Romney has flip-flopped on social issues in his attempt to pander to the conservative Republican base in order to win the Republican nomination for President is old news. Nonetheless, a story in today’s New York Times provides a … Continue reading
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“Runaway Bride” Inspires Albuquerque PD
From the Albuquerque Official City Website (here): The Albuquerque Police Department is using a new recruitment technique that features APD spokeswoman Trish Hoffman unveiling a woman wearing running shoes and a wedding gown. “Running away from your current job? Call … Continue reading
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Title IX Action Against University of Colorado May Proceed
Yesterday the 10th Circuit issued this opinion reversing and remanding the District Court’s grant of the University of Colorado, Boulder’s motion summary judgment in a Title IX case brought against the University by two women who claimed they were raped … Continue reading
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Suicide and the Pressure on Teenage Girls
From the AP, this story about suicide among girls: The suicide rate among preteen and young teen girls spiked dramatically in a disturbing shift that federal health officials say they can’t fully explain. For all young people between ages 10 … Continue reading
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Call for Applications: Bank of Montreal Visiting Scholar in Women’s Studies
From the FLP mailbox, this call for applications for the “Bank of Montreal Visiting Scholar in Women’s Studies” (University of Ottawa Institute of Women’s Studies): The Institute of Women’s Studies at the University of Ottawa is inviting applications for its … Continue reading
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CFP: University of Baltimore School of Law’s Feminist Legal Theory and Feminisms Conference
From the FLP mailbox: This call for papers seeks submissions for the University of Baltimore School of Law’s upcoming Feminist Legal Theory and Feminisms Conference. The conference will begin with a keynote address by Gloria Steinem the evening of … Continue reading
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Good News from Kansas
LGBT state employees received some good news at the end of last week. The Governor of Kansas, Kathleen Sebelius, signed an executive order on August 31 that bans harassment and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender … Continue reading
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Larry Craig
I’ve been trying to resist posting on the whole Larry Craig affair because it seems that everyone else in the blogosphere has covered just about every conceivable angle of this story. But, after hearing that Craig is now determined to … Continue reading
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This is Front Page News?
The New York Times reports today that police in Nassau County, New York (Long Island) have made “more than 70 arrests since it began focusing on Craigslist last year, one of numerous crackdowns by vice squads . . . ‘Craigslist … Continue reading
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Betting the Bippy
My father is a man whose vocabulary tends toward the mainstream. If he hits his thumb with a hammer, he may let out a “goddammit” or two, but he is rarely more profane than that. He does, however, … Continue reading
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Depression on Campus: Who Has a Right to Know?
From an article in the LA Times entitled “Crisis on Campus,” this description of the tension between students’ privacy rights and what the author calls “families’ need to know”: [A suicidal student] was referred to a school psychiatrist who agreed … Continue reading
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University of Oklahoma Faculty Search
From the FLP mailbox: I am chairing the Faculty Appointments Committee for the University of Oklahoma College of Law. In case anyone on this list might be interested, I wanted to share that our curricular needs include Civil Procedure, … Continue reading
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These Are Your Lungs on Cigarettes
Years ago the Partnership for a Drug Free America ran a memorable TV ad with the tag lines, “This is your brain. This is drugs. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?” Critics decried the advertisement’s “scare tactics,” … Continue reading
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NYC Teens and Unsafe Sex
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has issued a report on Teen Sexual Activity and Birth Control Use in New York City. From the press release: More than two thirds (69%) of sexually active New … Continue reading
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Antiperspirant and the Sexiness Factor (Or Am I Just Shvitzing?)
Yesterday at a bus stop I saw the new ad for Secret ® Antiperspirant. The classic label, shown at left, is embellished with swirly flower designs and the words “because you’re hot” (online version here). From the company’s … Continue reading
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Who is Hurt by Dog Fighting?
From cnn.com’s guest commentator: Because violence breeds violence, dogfighting endangers communities wherever it occurs. Aside from hurting animals, it nurtures a violent mind-set that makes it easier for people to brutalize other people. The results of a recent Chicago Police … Continue reading
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