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Category Archives: Feminism and Politics
Nobel Women’s Initiative – Video Stream: International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women of Burma
HERE! More information here. “The Tribunal is a women-directed and women-centered justice and advocacy initiative. Judges will hear testimony from several women of Burma who will share their personal stories of surviving human rights violations and crimes under miliatry rule … Continue reading
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“TIME CHANGE–In Our Own Backyard: Child Prostitution and Sex Trafficking in the United States”
Hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law which took place yesterday (Wednesday, February 24, 2010) View webcast here! Panel I The Honorable Ron Wyden United States Senator for the State of Oregon Panel II … Continue reading
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Why Martha Coakley Lost
Phyllis Schlafly blames Martha Coakley’s loss in the Massachussetts Senate race on Coakley’s being a feminist. H/T Joe.My.God. and Howard May -Darren Rosenblum
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If you are a feminist, just read this and see what you think.
Here, the post and the comments. That is all I have to say – I have opinions, you have opinions, and we probably both have scabs we would rather not dislodge, in the hopes that some day the wounds will … Continue reading
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Costa Rican voters elected the country’s first woman president on Sunday: Laura Chinchilla
From the NYT article entitled “Costa Rica Elects 1st Woman President in Landslide”: … Chinchilla, the mother of a teenage son, is a social conservative who opposes abortion and gay marriage. She appealed both to Costa Ricans seeking a fresh … Continue reading
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Rebecca J. Cook and Simone Cusack, “Gender Stereotyping: Transnational Legal Perspectives”
From the publisher’s website: While both lawyers and psychologists have been aware of the role of stereotypes in discrimination, there is little literature addressing the legal status of stereotypes as gender discrimination. Gender Stereotyping makes a substantial contribution to the … Continue reading
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“For those who buy and sell children for sex and cheap labor, Haiti is ripe with opportunity.”
That is the second sentence in this short essay in The Atlantic. Here is an excerpt: In Haiti … human trafficking is a problem at the best of times. Even without the pandemonium unleashed by a 7.0 earthquake, an estimated … Continue reading
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Guest Post by Gloria Feldt: Not Under the Bus
“If we’re going to be thrown under the bus, let’s not be ladylike about it. Kick and scream and make your voice heard.” :Linda Lowen, About.com/womensissues I couldn’t agree more with Linda. That’s why I’ve dropped everything else and am … Continue reading
On Virginity and Hymens
From this website: Time for more accurate terminology: Hymen renamed”vaginal corona” The mythical status of the hymen has caused far too much harm for far too long. Last spring, RFSU published an information booklet in Swedish intended to dispel some … Continue reading
You didn’t really think that Democratic control of both the Presidency and Congress would preserve abortion rights, did you?
It’s the No Abortion Ban National Day of Action, or as Violet says “Stop Stupak!”: Center for Reproductive Rights: No Abortion Ban – National Day of Action NOW: Stop Stupak! Stop Stupak Coalition: DC Lobby Day and National Week of … Continue reading
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The 64 Democrats on the Wrong Side of Stupak-Pitts
The Democrats who voted “Aye” on the Stupak-Pitts Amendment: AL-2 Bright, Bobby; AL- 5 Griffith, Parker; AL-7 Davis, Artur; AR-1 Berry, Robert; AR-2 Snyder, Victor; AR-4 AR-4 Ross, Mike; CA-18 Cardoza, Dennis; CA-20 Costa, Jim; CA-43 Baca, Joe; CO-3 Salazar, … Continue reading
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Alliance for Justice Requests Support for Dawn Johnsen
Via Shaun Shaughnessy, this request from Nan Aron at the Alliance for Justice: Alliance for Justice has been asked to circulate a national sign-on letter in support of the nomination of Dawn Johnsen to lead the Department of Justice’s Office … Continue reading
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Guest Blogger Deborah Zipf on NOW New York State Conference
NOW’s New York state conference, held last month at the Crowne Plaza in White Plains, could make me cry. Thirty years ago there were hundreds of women, passionate arguments, sweet sisterhood, vicious infighting, consciousness raising, contested elections, accusations, … Continue reading
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The Pornification of the Household Product Labeling Acts
Another instance of Supposedly Liberal Doods humiliating naked women for a good cause. –Ann Bartow
New Global Gender Gap Report
The World Economic Forum published the new Global Gender Gap Report on October 27th. It ranks countries on how equitably resources and opportunities are allocated across their male and female populations. It bases these rankings on data … Continue reading
Being a woman is not a pre-existing condition
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Republicans Sure Did a Lot of Objecting When Women Tried to Speak
From House debate about the Stupak Amendment: Via.
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Women, Happiness, and the Marketing of Positive Thinking
Barbara Ehrenreich has a great debunking of a study that purports to show that women have become unhappier since 1972 – – – as a result, most likely, of feminism. Ehrenreich writes that the statistical variable (one percent) … Continue reading
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Sheila Jeffreys on Kate Millett
From this site: …[R]adical feminist scholar Sheila Jeffreys talks about the influence of Kate Millett on the course of feminist thinking, most particularly through her book Sexual Politics (1970). Jeffreys gives a summary of the key ideas of Millett’s work … Continue reading
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“By watering down the content of what used to be Women’s Studies, students are no longer inspired by feminism and by the prospect of feminist activism and research.”
That is a sentence from this essay, excerpted below: … There have been two competing forces in the theorising of Women’s Studies since its inception. On the one hand there are those who wish to ‘transform the curriculum’ and incorporate … Continue reading
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Betty Ford Was A Feminist
Check out this post at Tennessee Guerilla Women, which notes: “In the 1970s, First Lady Betty Ford advocated the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), was openly pro choice and proudly told the world that she was a feminist.” … Continue reading
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Could the next Dalai Llama be female?
Bridget Crawford recently noted that the current Dalai Lama considers himself a feminist. Last March, there was this report: After struggling for almost five decades, speculation is growing on who will lead and guide the Tibetans after the 14th Dalai … Continue reading
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More Proof That Men Should Not Be the Only Ones Controlling Resources
Here. Arrgghh. -Darren Rosenblum
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Law School Classroom or Meeting of the Connecticut Legislature?
Answer here.
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Yep, a letter is missing…
This is funny.
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New York Times Magazine Publishes Special Issue on Global Women’s Rights
This Sunday’s New York Times Magazine is a special issue on international women’s rights, Why Women’s Rights Are the Cause of Our Time. The cover story, The Women’s Crusade, is adapted from a book by Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof … Continue reading
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Hillary Clinton’s Gender Agenda
From this NYT interview with Secretary of State Clinton: “Democracy means nothing if half the people can’t vote, or if their vote doesn’t count, or if their literacy rate is so low that the exercise of their vote is in … Continue reading
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The “little girl who goes to public school in Dillon” is still hoping.
At about the 3:05 mark in this well known video: Obama references “the little girl who goes to public school in Dillon,” and he means Dillon, South Carolina, part of the Corridor of Shame (click link to view trailer). On … Continue reading
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The Republicans’ Hypocrisy (So What’s New?) About Health Privacy
The whole discussion these days about the health care bill is outrageous. In particular, the discussion of end of life care has become a joke. Yup, most of the Republicans now outraged about “death panels” voted for the … Continue reading
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“Echoes: 50 Years of Progress for Women in Politics. Satisfied Yet?”
A look at how far women have come in politics in the last 50 years, and at why we still have much further to go. From The New Agenda, thenewagenda.net. Via.
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Frank Rudy Cooper, “Race and Essentialism in Gloria Steinem”
The abstract: This short essay was solicited for the 20th Anniversary Critical Race Theory Workshop in 2009. It celebrates Angela Harris’s trail blazing essay, Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory. Harris argues against essentialism, which is the idea that … Continue reading
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Frank Rudy Cooper on “Race and Essentialism in Gloria Steinem”
Feminist Law Prof Frank Rudy Cooper (Suffolk) has posted to SSRN his essay, “Race and Essentialism in Gloria Steinem.” Here is the abstract: This short essay was solicited for the 20th Anniversary Critical Race Theory Workshop in 2009. It celebrates … Continue reading
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Health reform hits abortion wall
With congressional committees having entered the phase of proposing specific legislative language for health reform, an old problem has resurfaced: health reform and abortion rights are on a collision course. I refer to it as an old problem because … Continue reading
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“Making Space for Indigenous Feminism”
I stumbled upon Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, a 2007 book edited by Professor Joyce Green (Political Science, University of Regina). It is a collection of essays by Indigenous women from Canada, the USA, Sapmi (Samiland), and Aotearoa/New Zealand. In … Continue reading
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Sotomayor Redux–Is Regina Benjamin Too Fat to Be Surgeon General?
Just as Judge Sotomayor was pilloried for her appearance, questions about whether Dr. Regina Benjamin is too fat for public office have begun to circulate. An analysis of this really troubling trend here. And yes, I get that the Surgeon … Continue reading
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In which Lindsey Graham calls Sonya Sotomayor a bitch, South Carolina style
When I listen to this clip it sounds like Sen. Graham, who is a graduate of the University of South Carolina School of Law, is pulling what I call the “Dark Mysterious Forces” maneuver. Of course he’s not saying she … Continue reading
South Carolina’s state govt is only the fifth most dysfunctional state govt in the nation
At least according to this article, which claims the six states with the worst leadership are: 6. California 5. South Carolina 4. Alaska 3. Illinois 2. Nevada 1. New York I’m sure the fact that we have the fewest women … Continue reading
“The Education of Sonia Sotomayor”
That is the title of this essay at the WaPo written by one of Judge Sotomayor’s Princeton profs. Below are a couple of excerpts: … Had I known in the spring of 1973 that this hesitant freshman from the Bronx … Continue reading
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“The Biden Curve”
Is Sarah Palin really dumber than Joe Biden? Or is something else going on? From the WSJ: ************* Over the weekend, as we noted yesterday, Vice President Biden said that if Israel decides it needs to take military action against … Continue reading
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Are all the pundits who matter at DailyKos male?
Over at Daily Kos is a post entitled “Abbreviated Pundit Round-up,” by “BarbinMD” with a first sentence that touts itself as “Your one stop pundit shop.” The pundits receiving links and blurbs? William Kristol, Tony Blankley, Richard Cohen, Cal Thomas, … Continue reading
Echidne on Palin
Here’s an excerpt: … So yes, I hate McCain for what he did to me as a feminist, by putting me in the position of having to wade into the sewers of lefty blogs to find out what sexist crap … Continue reading
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The Supposedly Liberal Doods Are STILL Odiously Hypersexualizing Sarah Palin
I don’t know why she is resigning her governorship, and I’m no Palin fan, but she absolutely did not deserve this: … As Hunter [S. Thompson] said, “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” Sarah Palin makes Mark … Continue reading
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Gendered Qualification for Public Office
Should Middle-Aged Men Hold Public Office? That’s the title of an engaging essay by Barbara O’Brien over at salon.com here. O’Brien not only answers those who have wondered aloud about Sotomayor’s qualifications given possibilities such as menstruation and menopause, but … Continue reading
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Ho-hum … NOW Elects a New President
Yesterday the National Organization for Women elected a new President. Ho-hum. Here’s a portion of the NOW press release: This weekend members of the National Organization for Women (NOW) cast their votes for a new team of leaders to direct … Continue reading
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“… a Justice Department lawyer actually argued to a federal district court judge that there should be an exemption from Freedom of Information Act disclosure rules for documents that would subject senior administration officials to embarrassment — as in on late-night television.”
From Dan Froomkin: … Yes, a Justice Department lawyer actually argued to a federal district court judge that there should be an exemption from Freedom of Information Act disclosure rules for documents that would subject senior administration officials to embarrassment … Continue reading
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“the painful consequences of having sex without a condom”
An advertisement for condoms in China with the tag line “”Such tragedy could have been easily avoided”: Via. Strikes me as pretty dumb, if startling, but apparently it increased sales. –Ann Bartow
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“David Letterman, the voice of dude nation”
Read Dr. Socks.
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Who”Owns”the Marriage Equality Issue?
The last several weeks have been busy ones in the battle for marriage equality. The governors of Maine and New Hampshire signed laws that allowed same sex couples to marry. California’s Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Proposition 8, and … Continue reading
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Sarah Palin in Seneca Falls
Ugh. Enjoy the great many cringe-worthy moments in this article about Sarah Palin’s recent trip to feminist landmarks in upstate New York here. -Leigh Goodmark
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Only Words: Bill O’Reilly’s Angry Tirades Against Dr. George Tiller
Via this Salon article, which notes: … Tiller’s name first appeared on “The Factor” on Feb. 25, 2005. Since then, O’Reilly and his guest hosts have brought up the doctor on 28 more episodes, including as recently as April 27 … Continue reading
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