Category Archives: Women’s Health

IF SHE DIES, HER PRETTY BOOBIES GO WITH HER.

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Ann Bartow

That’s the theme of a new breast cancer “awareness” campaign, and Kate Harding is not amused. Here’s an excerpt from her fantastic post at Jezebel: … This boobtastic Rethink Breast Cancer ad “and a couple more like it,” according to … Continue reading →

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Rethinking the Next Manicure: When the Quest for “Beauty” for Some Means Toxins for Others

Posted on September 11, 2009 by Bridget Crawford

From sistersong.net, this article about the deleterious effects that working in nail salons can have on women’s health: There are over 380,000 nail salon workers in the U.S. cosmetology industry, of which 96% are female and predominately of reproductive age. … Continue reading →

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“It’s a pity we can’t just seriously divide the country in two. On one side, all you people who don’t want “socialism” can go and live without Medicare, municipal sewer systems, roads that are maintained by government funds, running water, fire departments, police departments, national/state/city parks, public libraries, and other such disgusting features of life under brownshirt Obamcare socialism. The rest of us commies will hunker down together in our socialist nightmare and finally craft a universal health care system to go along with the rest of evil socialist empire.”

Posted on September 11, 2009 by Ann Bartow

Thus Spake Zuska.

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Elizabeth R. Sheyn, “Putting an End to an Unintentional Result: Why the Requirement that Female Immigrants Receive the Gardasil Vaccine Prior to Becoming Permanent Residents Should Be Suspended”

Posted on August 31, 2009 by Ann Bartow

The abstract: This Article concerns the recent (August 2008) CDC-sponsored requirement that female immigrants to the United States receive the Gardasil vaccine prior to changing their residency status and, eventually, becoming naturalized citizens. The Article provides a background of the … Continue reading →

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Video Memorial to Deceased Porn Actors

Posted on August 29, 2009 by Ann Bartow

Here.   Produced by Shelley Lubben.

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“Mystery Suspect in the “Obesity Epidemic””

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Ann Bartow

This article at The Icarus Project asserts that there may be an under examined link between psychotropic drugs and the “obesity epidemic.” Below is an excerpt: … The increase in the average American’s weight has paralleled the warp speed increase … Continue reading →

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New York Times Magazine Publishes Special Issue on Global Women’s Rights

Posted on August 23, 2009 by Caitlin Borgmann

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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Sex, Pregnancy, and Abortion on U.S. Military Bases

Posted on August 19, 2009 by Caitlin Borgmann

New York Times: Living and Fighting Alongside Men, and Fitting In, by Steven Lee Myers: FORWARD OPERATING BASE WARHORSE, Iraq : There is no mistaking that this dusty, gravel-strewn camp northeast of Baghdad is anything other than a combat outpost … Continue reading →

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Effect of Breastfeeding on Women With History of Breast Cancer

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Bridget Crawford

Buried deep within today’s NYT was this article about the effect of breastfeeding on younger women with a history of breast cancer: Although several studies have found that  lactation is protective against breast cancer, the new report found little effect … Continue reading →

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“Comprehensive Health Insurance Reform: An Essential Prescription for Women”

Posted on August 11, 2009 by Ann Bartow

That is the title of a new report issued by the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, chaired by Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY). Below is the abstract: The status-quo health insurance system is serving women poorly. An estimated 64 million women lack … Continue reading →

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“Resources for Lawyers with Substance Abuse Questions”

Posted on August 11, 2009 by Ann Bartow

From Leadership, Women, Lawyers: Here are resources specifically for lawyers with substance abuse questions, in all 50 states and DC: Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland … Continue reading →

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CFP: Conference on”Violence and Vulnerability”

Posted on July 25, 2009 by Ann Bartow

CALL FOR PAPERS: Conference on”Violence and Vulnerability” Emory University, Atlanta Georgia – November 12-14, 2009 “Violence against women both violates and impairs or nullifies the enjoyment by women of their human rights and fundamental freedoms… In all societies, to a … Continue reading →

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Pharmacists are obliged to dispense the Plan B pill, even if they are personally opposed to the “morning after” contraceptive on religious grounds, a federal appeals court ruled last week.

Posted on July 13, 2009 by Ann Bartow

The LA Times reported: … In a case that could affect policy across the western U.S., a supermarket pharmacy owner in Olympia, Wash., failed in a bid to block 2007 regulations that required all Washington pharmacies to stock and dispense … Continue reading →

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Women are under-represented in clinical cancer research published in high-impact journals, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Posted on June 8, 2009 by Ann Bartow

Citation and Abstract: Under-representation of women in high-impact published clinical cancer research Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil 1 *, Amy R. Motomura, BSE 1, Sudha Amarnath, BS 2, Aleksandra Jankovic, MS 3, Nathan Sheets, BS 2, Peter A. Ubel, MD 3 … Continue reading →

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“When I Die They’ll Send Me Home” – Youth Behind Bars

Posted on June 7, 2009 by Ann Bartow

Sara talks about being sent to prison for life for killing her pimp when she was 16 years old. In this 100-page report, Human Rights Watch found that in many cases where juveniles were prosecuted with an adult, the youth … Continue reading →

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Only Words: Bill O’Reilly’s Angry Tirades Against Dr. George Tiller

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Ann Bartow

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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I Don’t Want to Own GM

Posted on June 1, 2009 by Bridget Crawford

What if we invested $30 billion of taxpayers’ money in education instead?   Quality health care?   Affordable housing?   Public transportation? I don’t have anything against GM — my 1990 Cutlass Ciera got me where I needed to go … Continue reading →

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Still more “breast cancer awareness” via the pinkification of consumer products.

Posted on May 24, 2009 by Ann Bartow

Lisa at Sociological Images has a series of photos, such as the one just above, and this one depicting Breast Cancer Awareness Cat Food: The post poses some questions about this that can largely be summed up as WTF? (though … Continue reading →

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Welcome Back, Again, Today

Posted on May 23, 2009 by Bridget Crawford

The Today contraceptive sponge is back on some drugstore shelves this weekend.  The brand went off the shelves (for the second time) in 2007, when its corporate owner went bankrupt.   The NYT has coverage here.   The sponge has … Continue reading →

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A Shushing at the Gynecologist

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Ann Bartow

As reported by Zuska.

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Mary Roach: 10 things you didn’t know about orgasm

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Ann Bartow

Here.

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Opportunity to Participate in Research About Older Women’s Sexuality

Posted on May 19, 2009 by Ann Bartow

Learn more here.

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What color is your cancer?

Posted on May 17, 2009 by Ann Bartow

Odd question? Yes.

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When Non-Lawyers Write Wrongly About Patent Law

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Ann Bartow

In this article about patenting genes author Rebecca Skloot writes: Nearly a decade ago, surgical procedures were patented similarly to genes:if you went to the hospital needing, say, a certain kind of appendicitis surgery and your doctor hadn’t licensed the … Continue reading →

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Link Between Natal Health and Marital Status?

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Bridget Crawford

Earlier this week, the CDC released this report on “Changing Patterns of Nonmarital Childbearing in the United States.”  The report identifies its key findings as: Childbearing by unmarried women has resumed a steep climb since 2002. Births to unmarried women … Continue reading →

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Patent Law and Women’s Health

Posted on May 13, 2009 by Ann Bartow

The ACLU has helped organize a lawsuit challenging a decision by the Patent & Trademark Office granting Myriad Genetic patent rights to two genes that are closely associated with increased risk for breast cancer and ovarian cancer, and on the … Continue reading →

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“At least 84 Afghan girls were admitted to a hospital Tuesday for headaches and vomiting in the third apparent poison attack on a girls school in as many weeks, officials and doctors said.”

Posted on May 12, 2009 by Ann Bartow

That’s a sentence from this frightening NYT article.   Here’s another excerpt: Tuesday’s apparent attack is the third alleged poisoning at a girls’ school in less than three weeks. It comes one day after 61 schoolgirls and one teacher from … Continue reading →

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Pharmaceutical company Merck paid an undisclosed sum to academic publisher Elsevier to produce several volumes of a publication that had the look of a peer-reviewed medical journal, but contained only reprinted or summarized articles:most of which presented data favorable to Merck products:that appeared to act solely as marketing tools with no disclosure of company sponsorship.

Posted on May 6, 2009 by Ann Bartow

From Bioethics.net: The Scientist has reported that, yes, it’s true, Merck cooked up a phony, but real sounding, peer reviewed journal and published favorably looking data for its products in them. Merck paid Elsevier to publish such a tome, which … Continue reading →

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CBC News Sunday interview with Victor Malarek about his book “The Johns, Sex for Sale and the Men Who Buy It”

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Ann Bartow
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Living Well With Lupus: One Woman’s Journey

Posted on April 7, 2009 by Bridget Crawford

It began on May 23, 1996. A searing pain shot through my right hip as I stepped into a car. The pain spread into the other hip and my knees by nightfall. The day before I had completed a year … Continue reading →

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“Still Alice” by Lisa Genova

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Ann Bartow

I bought a copy of this novel at an airport bookstore with low expectations, just looking for something to pass a few hours when yet another flight got delayed. I got drawn into it quickly, and about 100 pages in, … Continue reading →

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Breast is Best?

Posted on March 27, 2009 by Bridget Crawford

Hannah Rosin expresses her doubts here in The Atlantic.   Here’s the intro: In certain overachieving circles, breast-feeding is no longer a choice:it’s a no-exceptions requirement, the ultimate badge of responsible parenting. Yet the actual health benefits of breast-feeding are … Continue reading →

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Multiple Anxieties: Breaching Race, Class & Gender Norms With Assisted Reproduction

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Bridget Crawford

Lolita Buckner Inniss (Cleveland-Marshall, Ain’t I a Feminist Legal Scholar, Too?, Visiting Prof at Pace Law School) and I have posted to SSRN our working paper, Multiple Anxieties: Breaching Race, Class and Gender Norms With Assisted Reproduction.  Here is the … Continue reading →

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Thinking S-L-O-W-L-Y

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Bridget Crawford

  Is it just me, or is there something a little odd about the similarity between the “slow-sex movement,”described here, and the slow-food movement?   (The latter is now organized into”Slow Food,” a non-profit that seeks “to counteract fast food … Continue reading →

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New Female Condom Approved by FDA

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Bridget Crawford

Earlier this week, the FDA approved a “second-generation” female condom.  Health Day News reported on it  here: The Female Health Co.‘s FC2 Female Condom has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the company said Wednesday. The product … Continue reading →

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Debunking Abortion Talking Points

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Ann Bartow

Earlier this week, I read an article stating that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was poised to sign a bill requiring parental notification when minors receive abortions.   It did not seem particularly newsworthy to me at the time – the … Continue reading →

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“The Feminist Food Studies Bookshelf”

Posted on March 3, 2009 by Ann Bartow

From this blog: Only in the past 10 years has there emerged a critical look at the centrality of women’s relationship to food practices and the meanings embedded in them. Here’s a few of those works. I’m developing a more … Continue reading →

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“According to the CDC’s final numbers for 2006, just released this year, the teenage birth rate increased 3 percent, putting a stop to the 14-year decline from 1991-2005.”

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Ann Bartow

From ABC News: … According to the report, teen birth rates were highest in the South and Southwest. Mississippi led the way, followed closely by New Mexico and Texas. The only states that saw a decrease in teen birth rates … Continue reading →

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Columbia Journal of Gender & Law Symposium: Gender on the Frontiers: Confronting Intersectionalities

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Katherine Franke

April 10, 2009       9:30 am – 5 pm Room 107 Jerome Greene Hall Columbia Law School Women Crossing Borders, 9:30 am Soraya Fata, Staff Attorney, Legal Momentum Sharmila Lodhia, Post-doctoral Fellow, Santa Clara University Jenni Milbank, Professor … Continue reading →

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Women Hating Fashion

Posted on February 18, 2009 by Ann Bartow

Via Jezebel, where this post features many clips of falling models. Purportedly written by a model, some of the commentary is unsettlingly blase about the dangers of the featured shoes, and outright victim blamey in others, e.g. “People say she … Continue reading →

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Sex Ed That’s, Well, Quite Educational

Posted on January 24, 2009 by Bridget Crawford

I’ve written before that pornography is not necessarily a good form of sex ed.  Depends on the porn, in theory.  To me, this much is clear: when porn embraces abuse, degradation, humiliation, torture, that’s not sex ed.   Consider the … Continue reading →

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Fat Kills.

Posted on January 18, 2009 by Ann Bartow

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The Cukold and the Kidney-Hold: How a Donated Organ Should be Distributed in Divorce

Posted on January 17, 2009 by Bridget Crawford

The New York Daily News features plenty of stories that don’t make it into the New York Times.  Here‘s one that caught my eye.   A doctor on Long Island donated a kidney to his wife.  She then began an … Continue reading →

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“Women in poor nations are 300 times more likely to die in childbirth or from pregnancy complications than those in the developed world, UNICEF warns.”

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Ann Bartow

Read more at the BBC News, which notes: “In its report, UNICEF said: “The divide between industrialised countries and developing regions – particularly the least developed countries – is perhaps greater on maternal mortality than on almost any other issue.”” … Continue reading →

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Naomi R. Cahn, “Test Tube Families Why the Fertility Market Needs Legal Regulation”

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Ann Bartow

Fabulous feminist law prof Naomi Cahn, one of the best feminist legal theorists around, has a new book out: Synopsis of publisher NYU Press: The birth of the first test tube baby in 1978 focused attention on the sweeping advances … Continue reading →

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Aborting Culture

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Katherine Franke

Khiara Bridges is the Center for Reproductive Rights/Columbia Law School fellow at Columbia Law School who has just completed her PhD in Columbia’s Anthropology Department studying the intersection of race, poverty, and gender through the experience of women in an … Continue reading →

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Black Woman Walking: A Documentary By Tracey Rose

Posted on December 30, 2008 by Ann Bartow

Via What About Our Daughters.

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“The National Crime Victimization Survey, based on projections from a national sample survey, says that at least 248,300 individuals were raped or sexually assaulted in 2007, up from 190,600 in 2005, the last year the survey was conducted.”

Posted on December 24, 2008 by Ann Bartow

That’s a quote from Human Right’s Watch. The underlying DoJ survey is accessible here. The data shows that   domestic violence, rape, and sexual assault increased more than any other violent crimes. With the exception of simple assault, which increased … Continue reading →

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Globalization of Surrogacy Markets – US and India

Posted on December 22, 2008 by Katherine Franke

Nazneen Mehta is a second-year law student at Columbia Law School and is writing a Note on the international market in surrogacy services – particularly between relatively affluent “intended parents” in the US and poor female surrogates in India. Her … Continue reading →

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Buyers’ Market for Egg Donation?

Posted on December 18, 2008 by Ann Bartow

This WSJ article entitled “Ova Time: Women Line Up To Donate Eggs — for Money” notes that clinics have seen an increase in the number of women applying to “donate” their eggs or serve as surrogates, positing that the surge … Continue reading →

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