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Nancy Rapoport Has a New Blog!

Go here and say hello!

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Interview with Martha Nussbaum in Eurozine

Available here. Below is an excerpt: SV: And one final question about feminism, a more philosophical question. I have always felt that you have a critical attitude towards the more extreme feminist views. I think of people like Andrea Dworkin … Continue reading

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Celia R. Daileader, “Racism, Misogyny, and the Othello Myth”

From the publisher’s webpage: Through readings of texts spanning four centuries, and bridging the Atlantic – from genres as diverse as English Renaissance drama, abolitionist literature, gothic horror and contemporary romance – Daileader questions why Anglo-American culture’s most widely-read and … Continue reading

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Cheerleaders

An article entitled “Equal Cheers for Boys and Girls Draw Some Boos” in today’s NYT reports: Thirty girls signed up for the cheerleading squad this winter at Whitney Point High School in upstate New York. But upon learning they would … Continue reading

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Amicus Brief in Support of a Grant of Certiorari in the Tamoxifen Citrate Case

There are serious public health consequences related to the Tamoxifen Citrate case (Tamoxifen Citrate Antitrust Litigation, 429 F.3d 370 (2d Cir. 2005)), particularly for women’s health. The maneuvering to keep the Zeneca monopoly deprived women of generic competition for nearly … Continue reading

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“Law and the Emotions: New Directions in Scholarship”

U.C. Berkeley Law School (Boalt Hall), February 8th and 9th, 2007.   Sponsored by Boalt Hall Law School, DePaul Law School, The Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, The Vanderbilt Law School Law and Human Behavior Program, and The … Continue reading

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I Need To Remember To Be This Senior Colleague

From See Jane Compute: Recently, a senior woman colleague of mine, someone who I know but don’t know well, stepped up and went out of her way to protect my time by getting me out of a time-consuming service task. … Continue reading

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Revisions

Here is the text of a post from the blog “Life, Law and Gender” that was entitled: “A tremendous honor”: In a completely unexpected email, Catharine MacKinnon just asked me if I would consider working for her for a few … Continue reading

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“Against Phalloblogocentrism”

That’s the title of this article at Inside Higher Ed by Scott McLemee. Via Discourse.net.

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The Pembroke Center Associate’s Newsletter is Now Online

The Winter 2007 issue is accessible here. The Pembroke Center’s homepage is here. Via Joan Heminway

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Going to the AALS?

Send me an e-mail if you want information about a feminist law prof gathering! –Ann Bartow

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Ellen Willis

Ellen Willis, journalist, feminist, cultural critic, and professor of journalism at NYU died of lung cancer on November 10, 2006. Her NYT obituary can be accessed here. It notes: “She was a founder of Redstockings, a short-lived but highly influential … Continue reading

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CFP: The Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice

From the Call for Submissions:   We are seeking submissions for the 22nd volume of the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice, to be published in the summer of 2007. Entries should be guided by the Journal’s unique editorial … Continue reading

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Blogging Feminism: (Web)Sites of Resistance

Of the Internet’s viability as a tool for political change, we ask, is there a better example than the blog? Young and youthfully minded feminists have learned that blogging allows them to carve out personal and political spaces where their … Continue reading

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Great Resource for Academic Feminists: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online

Availabe here, it has 79 entries on “Feminism.” Here is an excerpt from a sample entry written by Judy Whipps: Pragmatist Feminism: American Pragmatist philosophy, and part of the energy of that resurgence may be due to feminist interest in … Continue reading

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Dr. Crazy Surely Isn’t

Here is an excerpt from one of her posts at Reassigned Time: … When I decided to become a professor, I was under the naive impression that I’d be entering a world in which gender didn’t determine my identity quite … Continue reading

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Elizabeth Alice Clement, “Love for Sale: Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900-1945”

From the book’s website: The intense urbanization and industrialization of America’s largest city from the turn of the twentieth century to World War II was accompanied by profound shifts in sexual morality, sexual practices, and gender roles. Comparing prostitution and … Continue reading

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Linda DeRiviere, “A human capital methodology for estimating the lifelong personal costs of young women leaving the sex trade”

This article appeared in Feminist Economics (July 2006). Here is the abstract: This article combines case study interviews with the tools of economic cost-benefit analysis to estimate the lifelong effects for individuals in Manitoba, Canada, who began engaging in prostitution … Continue reading

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“Feminist Cyborgs: Teaching like a Feminist in the Computer Classroom”

That’s the name of this paper, which you might find interesting even if you don’t get anywhere near the “Computer Classroom.”

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Props and Thanks to Jim Chen

Jim Chen made my day, and I mean that sincerely, not at all in a Dirty Harryesque “Go ahead, make my day” kind of way (see also), quite the opposite. Read this post at MoneyLaw, and then read this one. … Continue reading

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A Primer To Gender?

Over at Crooked Timber, Ingrid Robeyns asks: Suppose you do research on gender issues in the social sciences (or practical/political/moral philosophy). It is quite likely that from time to time, or perhaps even often, you meet other scholars who are … Continue reading

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Law Blogs

Henry Farrell at Crooked Timber put together a wiki on academic blogs. The list of Law Blogs is here, and Feminist Law Professors made it into the wiki listing. Via Bitch, Ph.D.

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The Yale Women’s Center’s “Gender, Career and Family” Report

Per this site: In September 20th, 2005, the New York Times ran a front-page article (“Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood,”) alleging that undergraduate women at elite colleges such as Yale plan to choose motherhood over … Continue reading

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The Rutgers Law Review and Rutgers School of Law-Newark present: SAME-SEX COUPLES AND “THE EXCLUSIVE COMMITMENT” Untangling the Issues and Consequences

Friday, November 10, 2006 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Rutgers School of Law-Newark Center for Law and Justice 123 Washington Street Newark, New Jersey Morning: Process and Consequences of Same-Sex Unions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This panel will discuss the legal and economic … Continue reading

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“Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy”

From the publisher’s website: In Pink Ribbons, Inc., Samantha King traces how breast cancer has been transformed from a stigmatized disease and individual tragedy to a market-driven industry of survivorship. In an unprecedented outpouring of philanthropy, corporations turn their formidable … Continue reading

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Rosa Brooks, “What the Internet Age Means for Female Scholars”

Rosa Brooks’ essay “What the Internet Age Means for Female Scholars” is available as part of the Yale Law Journal’s online “Pocket Parts.” Below is a short excerpt: … Take any random sample of women in the top fifty law … Continue reading

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Feminist Law Prof Susan Scafidi Was On ABC TV Talking About Fashion!

Not everyone will agree with her views about copyright laws and “design piracy,” but she did a terrific job of explaining the issues. You can see the interview here, via her blog, Counterfeit Chic.

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“Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering”

“Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering“is a report prepared by a panel convened by the National Academy of Sciences to study the reasons women are not succeeding in greater numbers in academic … Continue reading

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“Estelle Ramey, 89; Doctor, Sharp-Tongued Feminist”

Obituary written by Elaine Woo from the 9/17/06 LA Times: Dr. Estelle Ramey, a Georgetown University endocrinologist and staunch feminist whose medical expertise and rapier tongue earned her such monikers as the “Mort Sahl of the women’s movement” and “George … Continue reading

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Nancy Rapoport on the AALS FAR and FRC

Nancy Rapoport is blogging at MoneyLaw, and her first blogservations there focus on the AALS FAR and FRC. See her posts: Things that faculty appointments committees should know (if they don’t already) and Why the Faculty Recruitment Conference is like … Continue reading

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What Is “Feminist” Legal History?

A  student  asked  me this  question: may legal history scholarship properly be categorized as “feminist” because it includes (or even centers) women in an otherwise conventional narrative?   I think the answer is no, not any more.   Writing about … Continue reading

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Lovely.

From the comments at Concurring Opinions: I think that Ann’s criticism stems from the fact that the article’s purpose is very different from what she was expecting. I think that Ann’s criticism stems from the fact of your pistil. Posted … Continue reading

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Nantiya Ruan on Payments to Plaintiffs in Discrimination Class Action

Nantiya Ruan (U. Denver Law School) has posted on SSRN, Bringing Sense to Incentives: Harmonizing Courts’ Chaotic Caselaw on Class Action Incentive Payments.   It makes what I find to be a really persuasive point about how courts handle class … Continue reading

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“Women in Corporate Law Teaching: A Tale of Two Generations,” by Margaret V. Sachs

With all the cyber-discussion of reprints v. electronic emails, etc., I have to report that I read one recent reprint cover to cover.   Maggie Sachs sent me a copy of her latest paper, Women in Corporate Law Teaching:   … Continue reading

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CFP by the ICFAI Centre for Business Research: Book Chapters

1. ” Women : Balancing Home and Profession” The main contents of this book would focus on areas such as physical health and nutrition, Stress management at home and at work place, handling family responsibilities and personal relationships, Financial status, … Continue reading

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New Paper on Confidential Settlements (mine)

I’ve recently posted on SSRN an article that’s sort of half employment discrimination, half civil procedure, and half economic analysis: Illuminating Secrecy: A New Economic Analysis of Confidential Settlements, 105 Mich. L. Rev. __ (2007).   The reason I think … Continue reading

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Let Me Know of Your Scholarship

I’ve meant to say this for a while: some of my posts are of the “hey, here’s an interesting new piece of gender-related scholarship” variety, so I would love to hear (and post) about new (or recent) works by by … Continue reading

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Susan Sturm, “Advancing Workplace Equity in Higher Education”

Susan Sturm’s writings are some of the most interesting analyses of discrimination around; a favorite of mine is her 2001 article, Second Generation Employment Discrimination.   Her newest piece just got posted on SSRN: The Architecture of Inclusion: Advancing Workplace … Continue reading

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“Third Wave Feminism and the Politics of Motherhood”

“Third Wave Feminism and the Politics of Motherhood” is the title of an essay by Mary Thompson, a literature prof at James Madison U, that was published in the Genders Online Journal. Below are the first two paragraphs: [1] The … Continue reading

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Martin Katz on the Riddle of “Causation” in Employment Discrimination Law

Here’s a paper for anyone with an interest in employment discrimination or related fields involving tricky issues of proving discriminatory motive (e.g., consumer or housing discrimination). Martin Katz of U. Denver Law recently published The Fundamental Incoherence of Title VII: … Continue reading

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New Paper – Sonia Katyal on Lawrence v. Texas

For some of my posts during this guest-blogging stint, I’ll provide a link to, and abstract of, interesting gender/feminism/discrimination-related papers I stumble across.   Here’s one I just got in some of my SSRN spam: Sonia Katyal, Sexuality and Sovereignty: … Continue reading

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How Not To Recruit Women Scientists: Send Them E-mails That Say, “I honestly recommend you to take one of these [other offers] rather than plunge into the hot pan.”

And don’t send e-mails that say, “Alla, as you are very aware, two competing labs in the same building is something we should avoid by all means. Some people who are promoting your arrival here are ignoring this basic principle, … Continue reading

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Writhing in Silence

Susie Bright has a post called “Blog the Cradle of Love” at her website. In it she makes a lot of somewhat disparate observations about BlogHer ’06, a recent women-oriented blogging conference. Here’s one passage that caught my eye: I … Continue reading

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Iris Marion Young

Larry Solum has a nice post up about the passing yesterday of Iris Marion Young at the Legal Theory Blog. She was very highly regarded for her work in political philosophy and feminist theory. Update: More information from the U … Continue reading

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AALS Annual Meeting Program Notice: THE CHANGED ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF LAW SCHOOLS AND ITS IMPACT ON FACULTY

The topic is of crucial importance to law profs. The facilitators were chosen to represent diverse teaching constituencies in brief opening statements and over half the program will be an open discussion among all the participants (facilitators and audience). THE … Continue reading

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THE SCIENCE OF GENDER AND SCIENCE

Over a year ago, Harvard University’s Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative (MBB) held a debate on sex differences between men and women and how they may relate to the careers of women in science. From the debate webpage: …the debate, “The Science of … Continue reading

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Belle Lettre: “Pictures and Patriarchy”

Note from Ann: Below is a Guest Post by Belle Lettre, which is cross posted from her excellent blog, Law and Letters  at her specific and unprompted request. She has guest blogged here before and has an open invitation to … Continue reading

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Prawfsblawg Adds First Female to Permanent Blogging Line Up

Feminist Law Prof Orly Lobel got a permanent blogging gig at Prawfsblawg, announced here. And wow, some of the commenters there think she is a total babe! Do I make this stuff up? No, I do not. Check out the … Continue reading

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Are Your On-Line Activities Hurting Your Job Chances?

The New York Times had an interesting article yesterday  about how students’ postings  on the internet can  sometimes redound to their detriment.   Here is an excerpt:   Many companies that recruit on college campuses have been using search engines … Continue reading

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Pornography, Rape, Feminism and Catharine MacKinnon

I know that there are deep divisions of thought within feminism about pornography. My impression, based on the literature I am familiar with, is that we are a lot less divided about rape. Pornography and rape are two areas in … Continue reading

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