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Sexual Assault and the Military
The infamous Tailhook convention, during which 83 women and 7 men reported sexual assaults by military aviators, took place in 1991. See also. Twelve years ago newspapers like the San Francisco Chronicle decried the high rates of sexual abuse … Continue reading
IRANIAN WOMEN’S RIGHTS DEFENDER SENTENCED TO LASHINGS, PRISON
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Supposedly Liberal Dood Bully Bloggers Try To Silence Criticism of Porn by Democrat
To suggest anything negative about porn is to automatically trigger an orchrestrated freak out by supposedly liberal doods who are trying to bully themselves into control of the “progressive” political discourse. Atrios writes: The Great Porn Controversy of Aught 7 … Continue reading
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“David Horowitz, Feminist?”
That’s the title of this Katha Pollitt column, which deconstruct’s Horowitz’s efforts to slur academic feminists as at least tacit supporters of “Islamofascism.”
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An Unexpected Flash of Something That Looks Very Much Like Feminism
Here, of all places. Below is an excerpt: … Every presidential candidate, and most other politicians, since 1980, have been bowing and scraping before this constituency. But for some reason, the hunting trips and codpieces and brush clearing and all … Continue reading
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International Violence Against Women Act Introduced into U.S. Senate
The Daily Feminist News reports: Senators Joseph Biden (D-DE) and Richard Lugar (R-IN), the chair and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced yesterday the International Violence Against Women Act. The bill was written with the input and … 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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Supposedly Liberal Bully Blogs and Political Debate: New Boss, Old Boss, Etc.
This time the topic is Social Security, spurred by Barak Obama’s decision to address Social Security (see also) in his campaign. Atrios writes: Beating back George Bush’s plan to kill social security was probably the first major victory for the … Continue reading
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Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to be President of Argentina
Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner became Argentina’s President-elect on Sunday, sailing past 14 other candidates with 40% of the popular vote – nearly twice as much as her closest rival. The Senator is, well, a Senator. But she’s been … Continue reading
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Jennifer L. Lawless and Richard L. Fox, “It Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don’t Run for Office”
The Barnes & Noble synopsis: It Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don’t Run for Office serves as the first systematic, nationwide empirical account of the manner in which gender affects political ambition. Based on data from the Citizen Political Ambition … Continue reading
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“Not For Sale”
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Haven’t Read Paul Krugman’s New Book Yet…
But I wonder why he suggests in this blog post that only male voters are interesting and consequential. Surely he is aware that women vote in higher numbers than men. As I noted previously here, this site notes: For six … Continue reading
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Presidential Campaign Staffs Dominated By Men
Post by this name at the HuffPo. Below is an excerpt: The leadership of the major presidential campaigns is dominated by men, with the Democratic campaigns slightly more balanced than Republicans. An analysis of recently released federal disclosure documents reveals … Continue reading
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“Persepolis” Will Be The Basis Of A Movie
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Hate Speech Debate
Steven Rose writes: There goes the Science… Oliver Kamm replies: There goes liberty Chris Bertram weighs in: The elimination of bigotry is a perfectly legitimate aim of government The primary focus is race, but there is obvious applicability to gender. … Continue reading
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Can’t Handle The Truth, Naval Style
FLP friend Jenn Frederick asks: “Anyone notice the headline for the AP article about the Navy shooting in Bahrain? The headline states “2 US Sailors Shot to Death in Bahrain” — kind of sounds like maybe they were killed by … Continue reading
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Odd Mixture of Messages Here
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“Taking off your bra for national security”
That’s the title of this story at Broadsheet (NB: You may have to watch an ad and then click “enter Salon” to read it). Below is an excerpt: … According to the Associated Press, [Lori] Plato set off security alarms … Continue reading
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Great Blog About Reproductive Health: RH Reality Check
Blog homepage here. To highlight just one useful offering by this blog: A podcast of Amanda Marcotte interviewing kickass feminist Jenn Frederick of the American Domestic Violence Crisis Line on the myths and realities of domestic violence and barriers … 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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Two Links About Crones
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Tucker Carlson Is A Sexist Jerkish American
Here is an excerpt from a transcript of his show: CARLSON: That was Hillary Clinton talking to women, the women who host ABC‘s”The View”and the millions of American women presumably who watch that show. According to polls, Mrs. … 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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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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“The Essence of War”
Dr. Violet Socks reminds us that soldiers are not the main casualties of war. Innocent civilians are. In part she cites to this article, which observes: Feminist anthropologists such as Cynthia Enloe have documented how the U.S. military perpetuates the … Continue reading
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Feminism, Race, and Single-Sex Education In Public Schools
During K-12 years (and in college as well) girls generally outperform boys, so it is understandable that some feminists would view pubilc single sex education proposals with suspicion. Certainly the fact that a recent, widely syndicated account of single sex … Continue reading
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“World Conference on Japanese Military Sexual Slavery”
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“On ‘Would Be’ Lynchings: Hate Crimes, Rape, and the Military Industrial Complex”
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Bulgaria Decides Not To Legalize Prostitution
NYT story here. Below is an excerpt: … Bulgaria is only the latest European country to shift its approach to prostitution. Finland last year made it illegal to buy sex from women brought in by traffickers, and Norway is on … Continue reading
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“Not your Erotic Not your Exotic”
“Not your Erotic Not your Exotic” discusses the sexual exploitation of women of color fairly graphically. The post title comes from this video.
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“The Gender Happiness Gap”
Echidne of the Snakes has a thoughtful post on this issue. Below is an excerpt: … On one level the statement is obviously true: nobody can “have it all” by being both a master tenor, the leader of a country, … Continue reading
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Ken Burns’ “The War – An Intimate History” Overlooks Women
Read Heart’s post here. Read Dr. Violet Socks’ post here. And while you are at it, read Are Women Human?, about which this reviewer notes: … A recurring theme of MacKinnon’s book is that it is extremely difficult to get … 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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“The Wrong Kind of Privacy”
Julie Shugarman writes: I recently received news that my friend Kelly was found dead in her single room occupancy [1] hotel in Vancouver, several days after she had died. [2] I knew Kelly as a great force working to improve … Continue reading
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Katharine Q. Seelye of the NYT Writes: “I’m writing a small column item for Monday’s Caucus blog about why more men seemed to be involved in politics online than women. I wondered if you 1) agreed with that and 2) why or why not.”
Read the responses here. Below are a couple of excerpts: Good questions. I am a woman. Personally I post comments under fake male names to some blogs (not this one), where postings under a female name are routinely attacked in … Continue reading
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Announcing the Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory
From this website: The Women and Politics and Foundations of Political Theory sections of the American Political Science Association and the Women’s Caucus for Political Science announce the Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory. The award commemorates the scholarly, mentoring, … Continue reading
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CFP: HADASSAH-BRANDEIS INSITUTE PROJECT ON GENDER, CULTURE, RELIGION AND THE LAW
UNTYING THE KNOTS; THEORIZING CONFLICTS BETWEEN GENDER EQUALITY AND RELIGIOUS LAWS, April 14-15 2008 at Brandeis University KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: DR. SHIRIN EBADI and PROFESSOR JODY WILLIAMS, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates and founders of the Nobel Women’s Initiative Throughout the world, … Continue reading
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Pornography, Prostitution and “Liberals”
In August of 2000 the New York Observer published an interview with Larry Flynt that also included some quotes by Dennis Hof, owner of the “Moonlite Bunny Ranch” brothel in Nevada (I’m not going to link to this establishment’s web … Continue reading
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Naomi Wolf on “The End of America …”
Naomi Wolf recently appeared on The Colbert Report to promote her new book, The End of America: A Letter of Warning to A Young Patriot. The book’s publisher asserts: In The End of America, Wolf gives voice to the cause … Continue reading
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Protecting Women Wasn’t Enough, But Now That There Is Evidence That Men Can Benefit Directly, Males May Begin Receiving HPV Vaccination
There is already evidence that HPV prevention would benefit gay men. The story posted here reports: The human papillomavirus (HPV) has been implicated as a cause of cervical cancer in women, but there’s another devastating form of cancer also linked … Continue reading
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“The Women Behind the Men” Are Still In The Background
That’s the title of Gail Collins’ column in today’s NYT, in which she describes the ways that women active in the civil rights movement were treated like second class citizens by men who were working for equality. Here is an … Continue reading
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Is “Maureen Dowd” Deemed a “Progressive” by Media Matters For America To Alienate Feminists?
From this MMFA page: I sure don’t read Maureen Dowd as “progressive” but that is how she is categorized in this study of political bias in syndicated Op-Ed columns. Do the Supposedly Liberal Doods (44 out of 59 staff/advisors are … Continue reading
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That U.C. Irvine Law School
Over at MoneyLaw (and also at her own blog) Belle Lettre provides background and a link round up of the Chemerinsky debacle, and Brain Leiter’s most recent post on the subject adds even more details. Yesterday Chemerinsky had an Op-Ed … Continue reading
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“Vote with Your Face: The Canadian Voter Identity Conundrum”
Read Feminist Law Prof Lolita Buckner Inniss’s post by this title at her blog: Comparative Racism and the Law–Canada/U.S.
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Human Trafficking and Slavery
Database that provides country-by-country ionformation here, via Black Looks, where Sokari writes: I read a report yesterday that there are thousands of African and South Asian migrants amongst the displaced in Lebanon. Unlike other foreign nationals from the Middle East … Continue reading
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Opportunities to Educate about International Human Rights Norms on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights” – Article 1, Universal Declaration of Human Rights If your university or organization is preparing an event to mark Human Rights Day this December 10th, the anniversary of … Continue reading
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The Equality State
The Wyoming Quarter is out. Via Is That Legal? Wyoming was the first state to grant women the right to vote in 1869.
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Five Books About Katrina
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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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Riverbend Blogs That She Is Now In Syria
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