Monthly Archives: October 2008

CFP: Women, Equality and Fiscal Policy: Gender Analysis of Taxes, Spending and Budgets

Call for papers for workshop on : Women, Equality, and Fiscal Policy: Gender Analysis of Taxes, Spending, and Budgets     Context and purpose of the workshop: The political economy of women is deeply affected by gender differences: women’s incomes … Continue reading

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Against Mandatory Guardasil Vaccinations

Read:The State Can Violate Women’s Bodies if They Want  to At WoC Phd.

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“Number of women, minority attorneys at big firms ticks up : but not in partnership ranks”

The National Law Journal Reports: The number of women and minority attorneys at major U.S. law firms is creeping up, but those groups remain significantly underrepresented in the partner ranks. That finding comes from a new report by the National … Continue reading

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Why Women Should Control Wall Street

So last week when I received my TIAA-CREF statement (like many professors, I assume) you might have heard me scream from Milwaukee.   But now I have a better idea–I should be running the market!   Tim Harford, a columnist … Continue reading

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“Female Fighters” – an account of a female battalion of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.

Here. Via Screaming Into the Void.

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Scott on “Surrogacy and the Politics of Commodification”

 Elizabeth Scott (Columbia) has posted to ssrn her article “Surrogacy and the Politics of Commodification.”  Here is the abstract: This essay examines the changing social and political meaning of surrogacy contracts over the twenty years since this issue first attracted … Continue reading

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This will give you a bit of a laugh.

Here. ETA: The best part is at the very end.

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“The latest in the Mmm, Sexy Pink Breast Cancer! Save The Boobies Awareness sweepstakes…”

Read a deconstruction here at Hoyden About Town. And don’t miss the associated comments thread! –Ann Bartow

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Women and High Heels

Today’s WSJ reports that in response to demand from women, fashion designers are making heels higher and higher, some up to 7 inches (yes, you read that correctly).   The shoes can cost up to $1500.   Some of the … Continue reading

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“Islamic law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases.”

That’s the first sentence of this article from the online version of the London Times. It reports in part: The government has quietly sanctioned the powers for sharia judges to rule on cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to … Continue reading

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Racism, Sexism and Political Blogging

A McCain supporter is getting well deserved censure for posting a picture of Obama paired with the image of a noose, with the words “asphyxtiation, the Fucking Solution.” You can read about it and see the image here. This is … Continue reading

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Imagining Law: On Drucilla Cornell

SUNY Press has published Imagining Law: On Drucilla Cornell, an edited volume of essays by authors in philosophy, political science and law.   Each discusses the importance of Professor Cornell’s work.   The last essay in the book is Professor … Continue reading

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Featuring a woman on its currency for first time leads to debate in Turkey

From this article: … With the coming change in Turkey’s currency, there will be, for the first time in Turkish history, a picture of a woman — Fatma Aliye, Turkey’s first female novel writer — on a Turkish banknote, and … Continue reading

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New Scholarship about Rural Women and Rural Livelihoods

Lisa R. Pruitt at UC Davis School of Law has followed up on her 2007 article, Toward a Feminist Theory of the Rural, with two forthcoming articles about rural women. Both draw on the discipline of critical geography to explore … Continue reading

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Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 2009 Symposium “Gender, Parenting, and the Law”

On February 7, 2009, the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties will host its 3rd annual symposium.   This year’s topic is “Gender, Parenting, and the Law.”   The symposium, which will complement the journal’s Spring Symposium issue, … Continue reading

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On the Issues Magazine

Check out the Fall 2008 issue here.

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The report found that men in the department operated like a “club,” the Chronicle reported.

According to this Phila. Inq. article: Rutgers University is investigating complaints of discrimination from female faculty in its political science department, including allegations of pay inequities and charges that male senior faculty members have held long-standing, decision-making dinners that exclude … Continue reading

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Law at Columbia U. is Stuck in the 1990s

The Columbia University Institute for Research on Women & Gender,  “the locus of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship and teaching at Columbia University,” offers an undergraduate degree program as well as a graduate “certification” in Feminist Scholarship.  There are some tremendous feminist … Continue reading

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Guest Post by Nick J. Sciullo: On Womyn and Humyn With A”Y”

This story is a story of the law review process and one scholar’s attempt to do something, anything, about the patriarchal underpinnings of law schools, law, and legal thoughts. My ideas on feminism have not always been well tolerated and … Continue reading

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“The through-the-legs shot is the upskirt shot with a velvet glove”

So opines Feminist Law Prof Jim Chen, who asks whether anyone would have published comparable shots of Joe Biden or Barack Obama or John McCain: October 8th Reuters photo of Sarah Palin: March 2007 Associated Press photo of Hillary Clinton: … Continue reading

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Connecticut equalizes marriage law

The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled today that the state must allow same-sex couples to marry.   In yet another decision with a one-vote margin,* this time 4 to 3, the court ruled in Kerrigan v Commissioner of Public Health that … Continue reading

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Same Sex Victory in Connecticut – A Real One!

Just got word that the Connecticut Supreme Court found an equal right to marry – yup, “marry,” in the state constitution.   Not civil unions.   Marriage. Here’s the short version from my good friend Dan Krisch, whose firm, Horton, … Continue reading

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“… if you’re going to talk about how far we’ve come when it comes to porn, if you’re going to posit Paul “Max Hardcore” Little as the latest victim of the Bush administration, if you’re going to lament one more strike against your First Amendment rights, you should bear witness as to what a porn star drenched in vomit looks like.”

That’s a quote from (link is to a NSFW site) Susannah Breslin, in her response to a Salon column by Glenn Greenwald. Greenwald sets up a false dichotomy between the DoJ’s prosecution of pornographer Max Hardcore, and governmental performance and … Continue reading

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Gender Imbalance In Law Reviews, A Continuing Saga

Concurring Opinions features the tables of contents of select law reviews when new issues appear. Judging by the first names, admittedly an imperfect measure, it looks like neither the Michigan Law Review nor the Boston College Law Review published anything … Continue reading

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CFP: Women’s Right Law Reporter, Rutgers School of Law Newark

The Women’s Rights Law Reporter is a quarterly journal of legal scholarship and feminist criticism published by students at the Rutgers School of Law in Newark, NJ. Now-Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg founded the Reporter in 1970. It is … Continue reading

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Comments You Are Most Likely to Hear From Feminist Law Professors

On the Freakonomics blog at the New York Times, Justin Wolfers reminded readers  (here) of  economist  George Stigler‘s  suggestion that during presentations of a scholarly work, audience members would increase academic efficiency by shouting out a number that corresponded to … Continue reading

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The Howard University School of Law Will Host Fifth Annual Wiley A. Branton Symposium On October 24, 2008

Program-at-a-glance here. Additional information here. Via Okianer Christian Dark.

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Lilly Ledbetter at Pitt Law Tonight

For readers in the Western Pennsylvania area who might be interested in attending, Lilly Ledbetter will be speaking at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law tonight about her Supreme Court case and the fight for equal pay for women. … Continue reading

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Politics, Feminism and Firsts

Echidne of the Snakes has written a brilliant essay about the current state of political discourse among the Supposedly Liberal Doods. Below are a few excerpts, but you should go read the whole thing. … The first black and/or female … Continue reading

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Abortion and the Supreme Court: One Depressing Possibility

I got an e-mail from RH Reality Check today plugging a series of posts about abortion, framed with the title: “The Supreme Court Hangs In The Balance.” I’d like to offer the competing opinion that the Supreme Court has already … Continue reading

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Query For Readers With An Interest In Internet Governance

Is anyone interested in being involved in a new constituency at ICANN for non-commercial Internet users?   ICANN is looking to add a constituency to increase the breadth of the stakeholder representation on the Generic Name Supporting Organization (GNSO) council, … Continue reading

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