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Time Periods: a history of menstrual products
Here.
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Ann E. Dunwoody becomes first female four-star general
Story here. Below is an excerpt: Dunwoody, whose husband, Craig Brotchie, served for 26 years in the Air Force, choked up at times during a speech in which she said she only recently realized how much her accomplishment means to … Continue reading
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Teen Pregnancy Prevention PSA Rejected by USA Today
Looks kind of effective, as these things go.
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“Girls Costume Warehouse”
A satiric Halloween classic.
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Samantha Bee on John McCain, Abortion, and Women’s Health
When I get back from paternity leave next week, I’ll start posting more substantive items again, but in the meantime, here’s a great clip from the Daily Show earlier this week. In it (starting at about 2:50 – although … Continue reading
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Toni Morrison Has A New Novel Out
It’s called “A Mercy.” Historiann reviews it here.
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Cheryl B. Preston, “Internet Porn, ICANN, and Families: A Call to Action”
The abstract: Although the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) technically does not regulate Internet content, its day-to-day decisions consistently influence not only the structure of the Internet, but its content as well. ICANN policies concerning the approval … Continue reading
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The “Opt Out Revolution” 5 Years Later
On Friday, October 24, 2008, Lisa Belkin was the keynote speaker at a conference at Pace Law School on “Women and the Law: How Far We’ve Come and Where We Need to Go.” I was a fan of Belkin’s “Life’s … Continue reading
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Man-Lovin’ Shoes
From the October 21, 2008 edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education: Sixty-three fraternity members from Centre College donned identical red pumps and hobbled en masse through downtown Danville, Ky., last week as part of “Walk a Mile in Her … Continue reading
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Target Women: Cleaning
Cleaning as a substitute for romance? Here.
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“Girls’ Books” and Financial Hard Times
Over at slate.com, Erica Perl recalls her favorite books from childhood: The first time I heard the word recession, I was 10 years old. It was 1978, and my parents, like everyone we knew, were cranky and stressed out about … Continue reading
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Happy Birthday, Ntozake Shange!
From brittanica.com, this short bio: Shange attended Barnard College (B.A., 1970) and the University of Southern California (M.A., 1973). From 1972 to 1975 she taught humanities, women’s studies, and Afro-American studies at California colleges. During this period she also made … Continue reading
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Women and High Heels
Today’s WSJ reports that in response to demand from women, fashion designers are making heels higher and higher, some up to 7 inches (yes, you read that correctly). The shoes can cost up to $1500. Some of the … Continue reading
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Defining The Third Wave
Jen Nedeau gives it a try here.
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Who Does She Think She Is?
How many female artists can you name? Lots of women go to art school, but they don’t become famous. This is a documentary about women artists. Trailer here. The movie even has a blog, here.
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“India’s female detectives track down Internet cheats”
An interesting overview of how the Internet is affecting marriages in India from here: However splendid everything appeared about his daughter’s prospective husband, something in the pit of her father’s stomach told him that something was wrong. The groom-to-be seemed … Continue reading
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On Being Bad For Feminism’s Image
In this essay, author Monica Dux writes: While researching our book my co-author Zora Simic and I asked women what turned them off the feminist label. The most common answer was that it’s the man-hating, hairy-legged lesbian. In a way … Continue reading
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Nudity, Gender, Art and Politics
Traipse through any art museum and, though it was controversial in its time, you will see lots of paintings like this Manet: The men are clothed, the women are naked. Activist group The Guerilla Girls trenchantly observed: And it … Continue reading
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Heelarious? Not So Much
From the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition, this action notice: Two Seattle moms have found a way to raise the stakes in race to sexualize young girls in adult trappings: plastic high heels for infant girls aged 0-6 months old. The … Continue reading
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Ali G Interviews Naomi Wolf
Here. Bonus interview with Sue Leece here.
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Margot Gayle
From the NYT: Margot Gayle, who brought a cast-iron will : cloaked in Victorian gentility : to the preservation of 19th-century architecture, popularizing the historic preservation movement in its infancy and helping save SoHo at a time when bulldozers were … Continue reading
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South Carolinian wins “genius” award.
2008 MacArthur Fellow Mary Jackson Mary Jackson is a fiber artist whose intricately coiled vessels preserve the centuries-old craft of sweetgrass basketry and push the tradition in stunning new directions. A descendent of the Gullah community of coastal South Carolina, … Continue reading
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“Two Women, Great Legacies”
That’s the title of Danielle Citron’s post at ConcOps about the passing of two great women journalists. Concurring Opinions was a solid law prof blog that got even better with the addition of the awesome Danielle! –Ann Bartow
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Girls! Girls! Girls! Bitch Magazine’s “Feminist Response To Pop Culture” Is To Co-Sponsor A Strip Show With Hustler
Read about it here. And just click on the Hustler logo if you are in the market for hardcore porn such as Larry Flynt’s “Barely Legal” line that delightfully features women who look like children, or some of the charming … Continue reading
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“New Questions on Women, Academe and Careers”
Scott Jaschik at Inside Higher Ed wrote an article with this title, in which he notes: In field after field, women either outperform or equal men : only to lag in key positions in academe (or in other careers that … Continue reading
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Is Pussy Galore a “Feminist Icon”?
I’d have to go with “no.”
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Your Right to Choose…a Sandwich
Many smart people disagree with Linda Hirshman about many topics, but I think she was spot-on when she described feminism’s “critical failure” as the watering down of choice rhetoric to “an umbrella to put over anything any woman said she … Continue reading
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Cool Beer Blog
I was sorry I had to discover Impy Malting via a post about Internet harassment, but the author is an entertaining writer with a wonderful feminist bent and it’s fun to learn more about beer! –Ann Bartow
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A Fairly Memorable PSA About STDs
Here. Via Broadsheet.
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Law Against Sagging Pants Ruled Unconstitutional By Palm Beach FL Circuit Judge
From here: A Florida judge has deemed unconstitutional a law banning baggy pants that show off the wearer’s underwear, local media reported Tuesday. A 17-year-old spent a night in jail last week after police arrested him for wearing low pants … Continue reading
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Sisters are Doing It For Themselves
You know you love it! cf: If I have to, I can do anything.
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“Most teen girls still experience sexual harassment and sexism, according to new study”
From here: Nine of 10 teen girls report experiencing sexual harassment, and majorities also say they have received discouraging comments about their abilities in school and athletics, according to a new study that appears in the May/June issue of the … Continue reading
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A Very Sad Sign of Feminism’s Success
Among the dead, officials confirmed, was a police officer, Spree Desha, 35. When her identity was learned, all officers on the scene formed lines, stood at attention and saluted in silence as her body, covered in a white sheet, was … Continue reading
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“Cyber Stalking: Anything But a Modern Love Story”
Danielle Citron has a post by this title at Concurring Opinions.
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Pole Dance Instruction and the First Amendment
From the ACS blog: When Stephanie Babines sought a permit to open a dance studio in a Pennsylvania town she was rebuffed by officials who claimed her studio was actually an adult business. Now with the help of the American … Continue reading
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On Palin: Traps for the Unweary
I’ve got a couple posts over at The Faculty Lounge explaining why I don’t support Sarah Palin. (coupled with the video Ann’s got below!!) Here’s one: Thoughts on Palin: Religious Politics and Book Bans Religious beliefs apparently played … Continue reading
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June Carbone and Naomi Cahn, “Pregnancy often puts success out of reach for teens”
This is an Op-Ed by two fantastic Feminist Law Profs, and it is accessible here. Below is an excerpt: The news that Sarah Palin’s unwed teenage daughter is pregnant highlights a surprising reality in today’s America: The ultra-conservative morality many … Continue reading
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Using Women’s Bodies …
…to serve sushi? I jest not. Today’s New York Times has a story — “Fish and Hips” — describing the practice. According to the Times, JILLIAN TALBOT, a 26-year-old Californian, lay very still on a long, elegant table draped with … Continue reading
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Openly gay diver wins gold, but for some mysterious reason NBC Sports did not feature his parnter in its reporting
From Yahoo News (written by Maggie Hendricks): Diver Matthew Mitcham, the only openly gay male athlete in the Beijing Olympics, won gold in the 10m platform. He beat Chinese favorite Zhou Luxin by 4.8 points, preventing China from sweeping gold … Continue reading
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Baby Bariatrics
Probably satire.
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“What if we cared about boob health as much as we care about boob size and boob-induced profits?”
Provocative essay by that title here.
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Nancy E. Dowd, “Masculinities and Feminist Legal Theory: An Antiessentialist Project”
Abstract: Men, patriarchy and masculine characteristics have predominantly been examined within feminist theory as a source of power, domination, inequality and subordination. Various theories of inequality have been developed by feminists to challenge and reveal structures and discourses that reinforce … Continue reading
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Unspeakable Tragedies Lead to Women-Led Organizations Promoting Pro Active Legislation and High and Low Tech Inventions (e.g., Sisters of Invention (mission statement is to save infants from needless deaths in automobiles))
Paul Caron, TaxProfBlog, blogged yesterday, about a horrific tragedy in his hometown of Cincinnati. He described the story perfectly as one that will make your heart ache. In short, a University professor of counseling at Cincinnati Christian University arrived at … Continue reading
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Interview with Nina Hartley
Flea, who blogs here, published her interview with pornography producer and performer Nina Hartley here. Click the aforesaid link if you are interested in reading it, don’t if you aren’t. ETA: Not intended as an endorsement of Hartley, who fails … Continue reading
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Stephanie Brown Trafton!
Olympic Gold Medalist in the Discus! … Stephanie Brown Trafton took her place at the head of the American team with a surprising gold medal in the discus, the first by an American woman since 1932 and the only medal … Continue reading
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Constantina Tomescu-Dita!
Oldest Olympic Marathon Gold Medal Winner Ever! Funniest comment from a member of my family as I sat on the edge of my seat and cheered her on: “Mom, don’t worry, no matter what a woman is going to win.” … Continue reading
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Hardly any porn allusions here…
… in this “Splat the Mat” game…
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“Letters to a Bullied Girl: Messages of Healing and Hope”
From the publisher’s website: Olivia Gardner, a northern California teenager, was severely taunted and cyber-bullied by her classmates for more than two years. News of her bullying spread, eventually reaching two teenage girls from a neighboring town, sisters Emily and … Continue reading
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Can a Beer Mug Reduce Domestic Violence?
This mug? Would Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein deem it an appropriate “choice architecture” type Nudge? Blogger Elle, Phd. is dubious about its efficacy, and I think her critique is a valid one. –Ann Bartow
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