Category Archives: Feminism and Politics

Supposedly Liberal Doods Assert New Hampshire Women Voted For Clinton Out Of “Sympathy”

Did New Hampshire women vote for Clinton out of”sympathy”? Two of the “big” Supposedly Liberal Dood bloggers think so, Kos from Daily Kos and Atrios from Eschaton. Kos writes in part: The more she’s attacked on personal grounds, the more … Continue reading

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First Woman to Win a U.S. Presidential Primary?

I certainly haven’t read every article covering last night’s win by Hillary Clinton, but what I have read seems to have glossed over something I am fairly certain is true: she’s the first woman to win a presidential primary in … Continue reading

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“Pitting Race Against Gender”

Jenn at Reappropriate takes issue with Gloria Steinem’s recent NYT Op-Ed. (Editor’s note: Hopefully it is clear that this blog itself is not intended to advance the candidacy of any particular candidate, but certainly individual bloggers are free to express … Continue reading

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Letter to Hillary Clinton

DEAR HILLARY, Don’t give up! Don’t ever give up! What you are doing by running for President is too important to America and the world for you or any other woman who dares to assume a position of leadership, to … Continue reading

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Can You Say “Gender Gap”?

New Hampshire’s Democratic Primary results: Total Voters by Gender: Female 57% Male 43% Total Women Voters by Candidates Hillary Clinton 46% Barack Obama 34% John Edwards 15% Bill Richardson 3% Dennis Kucinich 1% Total Men Voters by Candidates Hillary Clinton … Continue reading

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For The Couple of Weeks Or So, Y’all Will Be Watching South Carolina

The Democratic presidential primary election will be held here in South Carolina on Saturday, January 26. After it’s over, with a population of just over four million, we won’t get much attention from the candidates or national press, but up … Continue reading

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Katha Pollitt: “Hillary Shows Feeling, is Slammed”

Read her new column at The Nation.

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Melissa McEwan: “Fighting Sexism is Meant to be a Progressive Value”

Read her excellent post by this title here.

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Why Do The Supposedly Liberal Doods Link Sex And Derogation?

Here’s a picture of Guiliani: Here is a link referencing “nipple clamps” with respect to that photograph, and over at Eschaton this gets escalated to a porn allusion: Late Night Rowwwr! Everyone wants to see Rudy Giuliani rub his nipples. … Continue reading

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Thoughts on Gloria Steinem’s “Women Are Never Front-Runners”

In her op-ed piece in today’s New York Times, Gloria Steinem asks us to imagine a hypothetical candidate — Barack Obama as a female, essentially — and then asks, “Be honest: Do you think this is the biography of someone … Continue reading

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Gloria Steinem In Today’s NYT: “Women Are Never Front-Runners”

If you haven’t already read this NYT Op-Ed, it’s accessible here.

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Dirty Politics, South Carolina Style

Watch the PBS documentary here or here.

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Mr. President, Women Are Not for Sale

The December 31, 2007 issue of People magazine contains an interview with President George W. Bush and  First Lady Laura  Bush.   People asked President Bush about his daughter Jenna’s engagement to Henry Hager. People Interviewer: Tell us about your … Continue reading

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Doubting Society’s Ability to Respect African-Americans

Anxious Black Woman has this reaction to Michelle Obama’s “stop doubting” message aimed at African-Americans. -Bridget Crawford

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Headlines for the New Year Meme: Generation 2

Feminist Law Prof David S. Cohen encouraged feminist bloggers to compile a list of headlines for the upcoming year (see David’s initial post here).   So here are my four headlines for the upcoming year: Headline I’m most fearful of … Continue reading

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“More than 50 women in this city are now pregnant with the children of couples from the United States, Taiwan, Britain and beyond. The women earn more than many would make in 15 years. But the program raises a host of uncomfortable questions that touch on morals and modern science, exploitation and globalization, and that most natural of desires: to have a family.”

That’s an excerpt from this article, entitled “World Outsources Pregnancies To India.”

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“Sexual assault is a crime, even in war zones”

Read this post at Journey to Ithaca. And, see also.

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“Creationists Corrupt Textbook Selection in South Carolina”

The SC State Board of Education has withheld approval of two biology texts on the basis of creationist objections. Unfortunately, we all saw this coming, though how to fight it us still unclear. Via South Carolinians for Science Education (SCSE) … Continue reading

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The greatest wealth is health

No, Virgil won’t be there, but Dr. Gregg Bloche will. On Sunday, Dr. Bloche, senior health care policy adviser to the Obama campaign, will be speaking in Columbia, SC. If you’re in the area, come and seek answers to your … Continue reading

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Happy New Year! The Headlines of 2008

It’s a few days early, but I figured I’d try something fun here in lieu of public resolutions. I encourage other feminist law professor bloggers to join in with their own. And, if I knew how to start one of … Continue reading

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Interview with “Persepolis” Co-directors Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud

Here. Previous post about Persepolis here.

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Congress Approves Funding for Programs for Afghan Women

From the Feminist Weekly News: The omnibus spending bill passed by Congress and sent to the White House yesterday includes $75,000,000 for programs that aid Afghan women and girls. The final language in the bill also requires that the Afghan … Continue reading

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Samantha Power’s Address at the University of South Carolina School of Law

Samantha Power, one of Senator Obama’s top foreign policy advisers, spoke at the law school last week about the crisis in Darfur. I blogged about it here. -Susan Kuo

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“Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has pardoned the victim of a gang-rape whose sentencing to 200 lashes caused an international outcry, a Saudi newspaper said on Monday.”

That’s the first sentence of this article and I hope it is true. The media coverage of this case has been very confusing; compare this with this, this and this. Initially it seemed like press and blog attention was making … Continue reading

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The Chair-elect of the South Carolina State Board of Education Is An Anti-Feminist Advocate of Intelligent Design

Phooey. Stay strong, science teachers in the public schools of this state, I promise you are not alone. –Ann Bartow

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Rep. Julia Carson has died.

“Rep. Julia Carson, the first black and first woman to represent Indianapolis in Congress, died Saturday, a family spokeswoman said. She was 69.” More information here.

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“Huckabee’s record on women’s rights faces increased scrutiny”

I suppose if I were thinking of voting for him,  Huckabee’s endorsement of the Southern Baptist Convention’s stance that “a wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the … Continue reading

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“International Adoption, It’s a One-Way Dialogue”

That’s the title of this MoJo essay by Elizabeth Larsen. Below is an excerpt: November was National Adoption Awareness Month, and the media:including Mother Jones, which recently published my story Did I Steal My Daughter? The Tribulations of Global Adoption:have … Continue reading

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Echidne on Nitpicking

Here is an excerpt from Echidne’s terrific new post: … That there might be something deeper in the trivial topics some feminists (read: Echidne) chooses is lost on the critics. This something deeper is twofold: First, language matters. It matters … Continue reading

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People who eat a lot of red meat and processed meats have a higher risk of several types of cancer, including lung cancer and colorectal cancer, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.

Story here. The feminism angle is here. And, see also.

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“Enough of the ‘Right Wing as Liberators of Women’ Crap!”

So says Aspazia at Mad Melancholic Feminista, and I think she’s spot on. Just read the post below this one if you want more evidence of that.

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“Police chief in southern city of Basra says religious vigilantes have killed 40 women this year”

Yesterday the International Heral Tribune reported: At least 40 women have died this year at the hands of religious vigilantes in the southern city of Basra, the police chief said Sunday, describing the discovery of mutilated bodies accompanied by dire … Continue reading

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Joanna Erdman, “In the Back Alleys of Health Care: Abortion, Equality and Community in Canada”

The abstract: The decriminalization of abortion in Canada ensured neither its availability nor accessibility as an integrated and publicly funded health service. While Canadian women are increasingly referred to or seek abortion services from single-purpose clinics, their exclusion from public … Continue reading

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Where I Will Be This Afternoon

–Ann Bartow UPDATE: NYT coverage of the event here. And, see also. Obama said this the largest audience of his campaign so far. Funniest moment: the look on the face of the Clemson stadium chair toting woman sitting next to … Continue reading

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Dick Cheney Accuses Two Male Democratic Pols Of Having Tiny Wieners

And apparently he thinks Nancy Pelosi shrunk them. Below is an excerpt from this article: Most striking were his virtually taunting remarks of two men he described as friends from his own days in the House: Democratic Reps. John Dingell … Continue reading

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“At the end of the day, you can not be in a city-owned facility being subsidized by the taxpayers and not have language in your lease that talks about nondiscrimination.”

So said Philadelphia City Councilman Darrell L. Clarke, as quoted in this NYT article about the Boy Scouts, who have lost a valuable rent free lease because the organization refuses to change its discriminatory policy toward gay people. Hard to … Continue reading

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When I saw this photo montage, my first thought was, “I’m glad they didn’t show Hillary with the corndog.”

The pictures are from this NYT article about food, weight and fitnes on the campaign trail. One trope of Supposedly Liberal Dood bloggers is to eroticize or homoeroticize the consumption of corn dogs as a means of insult, which I … Continue reading

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“Choices, Consequences, Constraints,” an essay about academia and motherhood that may floor you.

It did me. Read it here at Scatterplot. Via Crooked Timber, where I seem to find a lot of good stuff lately. You might want to avoid the comments thread though – chock full of angry, backlashing men. –Ann Bartow

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“India’s ‘pink’ vigilante women”

From the BBC: They wear pink saris and go after corrupt officials and boorish men with sticks and axes. The several hundred vigilante women of India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state’s Banda area proudly call themselves the “gulabi gang” (pink gang), … Continue reading

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Obama, Gender Essentialism and Presidential Politics

“Feminist Pitch by a Democrat Named Obama.”   That’s the headline of this article from today’s New York Times.   Here’s an excerpt, describing Senator Obama’s pitch to women in early-voting states: The breakthrough nature of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s … Continue reading

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“Hillary Hatred Finds Its Misogynistic Voice”

At Newhouse News Service, Jonathan Tilove writes: In the coming months, America will decide whether to elect its first female president. And amid a techno-media landscape where the wall between private vitriol and public debate has been reduced to rubble, … Continue reading

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Cover-up of Women Soldiers’ Deaths

On March 8, 2007, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! broadcast the testimony of former Abu Ghraib commander Col. Janis Karpinski as she responded to my questioning at a January 2006 war crimes commission in New York. Karpinski said American women … Continue reading

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Sex and the Presidential Candidates

Women’s Enews notes: Democrats Joe Biden supports “age-appropriate” and comprehensive sex education but the Delaware senator has also voted to fund abstinence programs. Hillary Clinton has favored abstinence-plus for a decade. In 1996 as first lady she helped launch the … Continue reading

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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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Really, McCain – That’s An “Excellent Question”!?

Not sure what’s worse:   (1) that  this question was asked; (2) McCain’s  insulting response; or (3) that  67% of poll respondents (when I cast my vote) think  he did a “good job” handling it. -Kathleen  A. Bergin  

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Martha Nussbaum Speaks With Akbar Gangi

Chicago Public Radio has a project called Chicago Amplified, “a Web-based audio archive” that features a conversation with Akbar Gangi, a prominent Iranian political dissident, and Martha Nussbaum. Listen here.

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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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Stacy Malkan, “Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry”

From this website: …The book reveals the toxic truth about everyday personal care products, and offers an insider’s view of the campaign to get the cosmetics industry to use safer ingredients. Shockingly, toxic chemicals are also widely used in children’s … Continue reading

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“It is dangerous to stand up to a military dictatorship, but more dangerous not to.”

That’s a quote from Benazir Bhutto’s op-ed in today’s NYT. She also writes: … Opposition party members, lawyers, judges, human rights advocates and journalists have been rounded up by the police without charge. The press has been seriously constrained. The … Continue reading

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Scary…

This and this. Via Eric Muller, who would be an excellent lawyer to have during tough times. –Ann Bartow

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