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New Documentary: “The Purity Myth: The Virginity Movement’s War Against Women”
The Media Education Foundation has released a new documentary film, “The Purity Myth: The Virginity Movement’s War Against Women.” Here is a clip: The movie is based on Jessica Valenti’s book The Purity Myth. She shares writing credit on the … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Sexism in the Media
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American Journalist Sexually Assaulted by Egyptian Gov’t Forces
Author and activist Mona Eltahawy is back in New York after being arrested, detained and sexually assaulted by members of the Egyptian Interior Ministry last week. Read her Twitter account of the incident here. Her left arm and right hand were … Continue reading
Posted in Acts of Violence, Sisters In Other Nations
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CFP: Journal of Gender, Race & Justice, Jan. 30, 2012 Deadline
From students at Iowa: The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice Call for Submissions Innovative Scholarship needed for Volume 16 The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice is dedicated to the living discussion of feminist inquiry and critical race analysis … Continue reading
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Save the Date: CUNY Symposium on “Looking Forward: Rhonda Copelon’s Legacy in Action and the Future of International Women’s Human Rights Law”
From colleagues at CUNY: The City University of New York Law Review invites you to *save the date*for its annual symposium, Looking Forward: Rhonda Copelon’s Legacy in Action and the Future of International Women’s Human Rights Law. On March 30, … Continue reading
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When Boys Win at Girls’ Sports
The New York Times reports here today on the success of boys who compete on high school girls’ swim teams in Massachusetts, if their school lacks a boys’ swim team. Here is an excerpt: [R]oughly two dozen boys [are] competing … Continue reading
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CFP: Lenahan (Gonzales) vs. U.S.: Domesticating International Law
From colleagues at American: Call for Symposium Papers- Lenahan (Gonzales) v. United States of America: Domesticating International Law. Symposium will be held at American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C. on April 17, 2012. Deadline for Submission of Abstracts is January … Continue reading
Posted in Acts of Violence, Call for Papers or Participation, Sisters In Other Nations
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CFP 20th Annual Women’s Studies Conference at Southern CT State
From the FLP mailbox, this CFP for the 20th Annual Women’s Studies Conference at Southern Connecticut State University: “Women and Labor: At Home, At Work, Around the Globe” Keynotes: Dolores Huerta & Lilly Ledbetter Friday and Saturday, April 20 and 21, … Continue reading
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Univ. of Michigan to Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Title IX
From the FLP mailbox, this notice of an upcoming conference at the University of Michigan, May 9-11, 2012: The new University of Michigan Sport, Health, and Activity Research and Policy (SHARP) Center for Women and Girls! is hosting a national … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Law, Feminism and Sports, The Underrepresentation of Women, Upcoming Conferences
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Women, Power, and Development
From the Asia Sentinel, this article: Do Women in Power Act Differently From Men? Here an excerpt: Several studies of women’s involvement in environmental protection cited below seem to indicate that they do – marginally. How that plays itself out … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Politics, Feminism and the Workplace, Sisters In Other Nations, The Underrepresentation of Women, Women and Economics
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New Journal Announcement: Journal of Feminist Scholarship
From the FLP mailbox, this scholarly journal announcement from co-editors Catherine Villanueva Gardner (UMass Dartmouth, Philosophy and Women’s Studies), Anna M. Klobucka (UMass Dartmouth, Portuguese), and Jeannette E. Riley (UMass Dartmouth, English and Women’s Studies): We are pleased to announce the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Feminist Legal Scholarship
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When Kurt Vonnegut Said, “I Worry About Women”
Over at Letters of Note, there is a beautiful post about a letter Kurt Vonnegut wrote in response to a 36-year old widow and mother of three. Marianne Brown explains, “For some reason I wrote to Kurt Vonnegut and thanked him for … Continue reading
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Tait on “Do Patents Have Gender?” by Dan Burk
Allison Tait, a Gender Equity and Policy Postdoctoral Associate with the Yale Women Faculty Form has posted a review of Dan Burk’s piece, Do Patents Have Gender? Dr. Tait writes: While Burk would like to separate gender realities from gender … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Technology, Feminist Legal Scholarship, The Underrepresentation of Women
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Hamilton College’s Elihu Root Peace Fund Visiting Professor in Women’s Studies
From the FLP mailbox, this request for applications for Hamilton College’s 2012-2013 Elihu Root Peace Fund Visiting Professor in Women’s Studies: The Women’s Studies Department at Hamilton College invites applications and nominations for the 2012-2013 Elihu Root Peace Fund Visiting Professor in Women’s Studies. … Continue reading
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Nancy Cantalupo on “Persistent Problem of Campus Sexual Violence”
Forthcoming this week in the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal is this article by Nancy Chi Cantalupo: “Burying Our Heads in the Sand: Lack of Knowledge, Knowledge Avoidance, and the Persistent Problem of Campus Peer Sexual Violence.” Here is the … Continue reading
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Blogging as a Feminist (Unpaid) Method
Author extraordinaire Courtney E. Martin writes at The Nation (here) about the challenges of feminist blogging and online organizing: Online feminism is operating at this critical political intersection: amplifying the voices of the unheard, mobilizing funding and energy towards the … Continue reading
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Want to Increase Opportunities for Female Students on Law Reviews? Increase Faculty Diversity
From New York Law School: The New York Law School Law Review (NYLS) has issued its 2010–2011 Law Review Diversity Report examining female and minority representation among the membership and leadership, including editors in chief, of general interest law reviews … Continue reading
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Here are the Women! “Issues in Legal Scholarship” Edition
Check out the table of contents for Issues in Legal Scholarship: Vol. 9 : Iss. 1 (Denaturalizing Citizenship: A Symposium on Linda Bosniak’s The Citizen and the Alien and Ayelet Shachar’s The Birthright Lottery). Denaturalizing Citizenship: An Introduction, Leti Volpp Making Membership, Saskia Sassen … Continue reading
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There are the Women! Contracts Prof Blog Edition
Professor Jeremy Telman (Valparaiso), Editor of the ContractsProfBlog, writes (here): Bridget Crawfod [sic] often asks “Where are the Women?” when women are unrepresented or underrepresented in publications or conferences. Well, the answer to “Where are the women writing on contracts … Continue reading
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Human High Heels
This image creeps me out. Luckily, it’s an artistic creation a la Photoshop (not an actual foot!) by Richard Darell at Bit Rebels. Lots of interesting art/social commentary at that site; definitely worth a look. -Bridget Crawford image source: Richard … Continue reading
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CFP “Weaving Alliances from Feminist Economics”
From the FLP mailbox, this CFP: 21st International Association for Feminist Economics Annual Conference: 27-29 June, 2012 Barcelona, Spain Human Well-being for the 21st Century: Weaving Alliances from Feminist Economics The 2012 IAFFE conference theme, “Human Well-Being for the 21st … Continue reading
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Female Representation on German Corporate Boards
From The Atlantic: Last Monday, the 30 companies of Germany’s blue-chip DAX stock index pledged to increase the proportion of women in management positions. That’s news in itself. What’s most interesting, however, is what didn’thappen that day, and what some German … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and the Workplace, The Underrepresentation of Women
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CUNY Hiring Announcement
From colleagues at CUNY: CUNY School of Law is currently conducting searches for several faculty positions. These include: Two (2) tenure-track faculty positions; Associate Dean for Clinical Programs (the faculty member who heads CUNY’s law clinic); Instructor in the International … Continue reading
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Cincinnati Seeks Director of Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic
From a colleague at the University of Cincinnati: The University of Cincinnati College of Law invites applications for the Director of its Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic, part of our new Center for Race, Gender and Social Justice. … Continue reading
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“Enviro-Toons” in Cultural and Historical Contexts: “That’s All Folks?” by Robin Murray and Joseph Heumann
From the FLP mailbox comes a notice of a new book by Robin L. Murray (English, Eastern Illinois University) and Joseph K. Heumann (Emeritus, Eastern Illinois University). Here‘s the publisher’s description of That’s All Folks? (Univ. Nebraska Press 2011): Although … Continue reading
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New Feminist Blog of Interest: Occupy Patriarchy
Feminist Peace Work Director Lucinda Marshall and feminist scholar and activist Kathy Miriam have launched a new blog called Occupy Patriarchy. Check out this excerpt from the inaugural post: [I]nstitutions such as Wall Street are manifestations of the far deeper and greater … Continue reading
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Calling all Speed Mentors and Speed Mentees, AALS Annual Meeting, January 5, 2012
The AALS Section on Women in Legal Education has planned an exciting program for Thursday, January 5, 2012. From 9:00 – 10:15 AM, the Section will host a “speed mentoring” program. The Section’s Executive Committee is looking for faculty members … Continue reading
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Ms. JD Call for Writers in Residence
From the FLP mailbox, this message from Amanda Gonzalez, Ms. JD Executive Director and guest blogger here at Feminist Law Profs: Do you feel your creative spirit fading as you work tirelessly to perfect your legal writing skills? Do you … Continue reading
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Where are the Women? University of Toronto L.J. Edition
From the TOC to Volume 61:3 (2011) (posted here): A Contextual Approach To The Admissibility Of The State’s Forensic Science And Medical Evidence Gary Edmond, Kent Roach Equality Under And Before The Law William Lucy Property And Collective Undertaking: The … Continue reading
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Be “A Lady in the Living Room and a Whore in the Bedroom,” Advises NJ Politician
Phil Mitsch, a Republican candidate for the NJ State Senate, tweets “motivational tips” and “realtionship tips,” among others. From his Twitter account came this message: “Women, you increase your odds of keeping your men by being faithful, a lady in … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Politics
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Literary and Culinary Pumpkins
Harry Potter here. A whole multi-genre slide show here. And there’s always this: From here. -Bridget Crawford
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Goodmark on “Legal System Fails Abused Women”
An op-ed by Leigh Goodmark (Baltimore) appears in today’s Baltimore Sun. Here is an excerpt: After learning that Topeka, Kan., District Attorney Chad Taylor planned to stop prosecuting misdemeanor domestic violence cases in response to county budget cuts, the Topeka … Continue reading
Posted in Acts of Violence, Feminism and Law
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CFP – “Sex::Tech 2012,” San Francisco, April 1-3, 2012
From the FLP mailbox, this CFP: Sex::Tech is the premier event for health professionals; technology experts; researchers and educators; community leaders and advocates; parents and young people to advance sexual health awareness, knowledge, and strategies. This annual gathering is hosted … Continue reading
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Documentary “Miss Representation” Tonight on OWN
One of the hits of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival takes to the small screen tonight. The Oprah Winfrey Network will show the documentary film Miss Representation at 9:00 p.m. (eastern). Here is a description of the film: Like drawing … Continue reading
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Where are the Women? Not at Duquesne Talking About the Establishment Clause
Looks like Duquesne University School of Law will be hosting an all-male symposium next month. Professor Bruce Ledewitz is the symposium chair, according to the school’s publicity. Check out the line-up for the planned program on “The Future of the … Continue reading
Posted in Upcoming Conferences, Where are the Women?
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Reid on “Sex, Drugs, and American Jurisprudence”
Susan Reid (J.D. Columbia, 2011) has posted to SSRN her working paper “Sex, Drugs, and American Jurisprudence: The Medicalization of Pleasure.” Here is the abstract: This paper explores the role of medical arguments in cases where courts have overturned statutes … Continue reading
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The Feminist “Generation Wars” Continue
First we had the “wave” wars. Now it’s feminists who were there (read: politically aware) at the time of the Clarence Thomas hearings versus everyone else. That’s how I read Vivia Chen’s reflections over at the Careerist (here) about last weekend’s … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Feminism and Politics, Sexual Harassment
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Where are the Women? Not in the Wm Mitchell Law Rev. on Restatement (3rd) of Torts
Who is talking and writing about the Restatement (Third) of Torts in the “Liability for Physical and Emotional Harms” symposium edition of the William Mitchell Law Review? One — yes, just one — contributor out of 14 is female. Here’s … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, The Overrepresentation of Men, Where are the Women?
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CFP: “Transecting Society: Critical Dialogues on Transsexual/Transgender Identities”
From the FLP mailbox, this CFP: TRANSECTING SOCIETY:Critical Dialogues on Transsexual/Transgender Identities in Politics, Media, Activism and Culture Date: April 12 & 13, 2012 Location: University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH Memorial Union Building (MUB) Transecting Society is a two-day … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Papers or Participation, LGBT Rights
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Is it Feminism “Fault” that Women are Single?
The November, 2011 edition of The Atlantic features a young, single writer and the headline “What Me, Marry?” with the subtitle, “In today’s economy, men are falling apart. What that means for sex and marriage.” That sounds like an interesting … Continue reading
Research Resource: Gender Jurisprudence Collections at American University
Earlier this semester, the War Crimes Research Office and the Women and International Law Program at American University Washington College of Law announced the launch of the Gender Jurisprudence Collections (GJC). Here is an excerpt from the school’s press release: … Continue reading
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SCOTUS Declines to Hear Same-Sex Adoption Case
Reuters reports on the United States Supreme Court’s denial of cert today in Oren Adar v. Darlene Smith, No. 11-46: In a case closely watched by gay rights advocates, the high court rejected without comment an appeal by Oren Adar and … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Families, LGBT Rights
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Is a Book Like Sex?
In an interview with the UK Guardian (here), author Maurice Sendak says of e-books: “I hate them. It’s like making believe there’s another kind of sex. There isn’t another kind of sex. There isn’t another kind of book! A book … Continue reading
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A Feminist on Yom Kippur
Writing for Sh’ma (here) in 2005, Martha Ackelsberg (Political Science, Smith College) asked, “How Can a Feminist Like Me Enjoy a Liturgy Like This?” My secret is now out: I actually enjoy the Yom Kippur Avodah Service. How can this … Continue reading
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Where are the Women? Campbell Law Review Edition
How difficult would it have been to find women to include in the symposium? 33 CAMPBELL LAW REVIEW, NO. 3, PP. 501-740, 2011. Symposium. Liberalism, Constitutionalism, and Christianity: Perspectives on the Influence of Christianity on Classical Liberal Legal Thought. … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, The Overrepresentation of Men, The Underrepresentation of Women, Where are the Women?
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Nobel Prize Committee Recognizes 3 Women’s Efforts for Peace
From the National Council for Research on Women, this short description of the three women who are sharing this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Leymah Gbowee was featured in the film Pray the Devil Back to Hell and shared her story … Continue reading
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Death of Derrick Bell
The NYT obituary is here. May his memory be a blessing. May he rest in peace. -Bridget Crawford
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CFP: “Women, the Charter, and CEDAW in the 21st Century,” Kingston, Ont. March 2-4, 2012
From our colleagues at Queen’s University (Kingston Ont.): QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY FEMINIST LEGAL STUDIES Call for papers — Women, the Charter, and CEDAW in the 21st Century: Taking Stock and Moving Forward March 2-4, 2012, Kingston Ont. The Charter sex equality … Continue reading
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“From Cleopatra Jones to First Lady Michelle Obama: Exploring Feminism in Film & Media”
The 14th Annual Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival will take place this coming weekend in Brooklyn, New York. Here’s an overview: Reel Sisters Film Festival will screen more than 25 films directed, produced or written by women of … Continue reading
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What’s Wrong with this Picture?
I am familiar with and admire the scholarship of three of the faculty members pictured above: Dan Markel, Steve Johnson and Reid Fontaine (also a law school classmate — he was smart from Day 1, I can attest). My casebook … Continue reading
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Post-Grad Opportunity: Center for Reproductive Rights–Columbia Law School Fellowship
From colleagues at Columbia: The Center for Reproductive Rights – Columbia Law School Fellowship (“CRR-CLS Fellowship”) is a two-year, post-graduate fellowship offered by the Center for Reproductive Rights (“the Center”) and Columbia Law School (“the Law School”). The Fellowship is … Continue reading
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