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Corbin on “Compelled Disclosures”
Carolina Mala Corbin (Miami) has posted to SSRN her article Compelled Disclosures, Ala. L. Rev. (forthcoming). Here is the abstract: Courts have faced a wave of compelled disclosure cases recently. By government mandate, tobacco manufacturers must include graphic warnings on their … Continue reading
Death of Cardiss Collins, 1931-2012, Illinois Congressional Representative
The New York Times reports (here) today on the death of Cardiss Collins, “who reluctantly ran for a Chicago Congressional seat left vacant when her husband died in a plane crash and went on to become Illinois’s first black congresswoman, … Continue reading
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Think Pink
The New York Times notes that the New Hampshire delegation has gone all female. Girls rule in Congress, in the Governor’s Mansion, as Speaker of the State House, and as Chief Justice. Truly, a woman’s place is in the House, … Continue reading
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“When Men Are Too Emotional To Have A Rational Argument”
This essay is really good! Below is an excerpt. Women’s Emotions are “Emotions,” Men’s Emotions are “How People Talk” A long time ago, in Bullish: What Egg Donation Taught Me About Being a Dude, I quoted Ben Barres, Chair of … Continue reading
Today Frank Bruni Sounds Like a Feminist!
Seriously, check out his column The Siren and The Spook (below is an excerpt): … Broadwell has just 13 percent body fat, according to a recent measurement. Did you know that? Did you need to? It came up nonetheless. And … Continue reading
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“Why it is important to integrate human rights into international policy-making”
From Equality Now: The Liberian President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has just returned from a business trip to Britain, where she met President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia and UK Prime Minister David Cameron. In Liberia, more than 58% of women … Continue reading
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The South Carolina State Senate is going to have a woman member. Only one, but at least one.
See this, excerpt below: Katrina Shealy upended Lexington County politics Tuesday, ousting legendary state Sen. Jake Knotts to become the only woman in the state Senate. Shealy’s win was remarkable in that she beat Knotts in a district that the … Continue reading
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“War on Women, Waged in Postcards: Memes From the Suffragist Era”
Here. Below is one of the featured postcards.
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Surely there is a better way to describe swing states than “It’s like being the prettiest girl at the dance.”
See e.g. this (title) and this (within text) and all the places these are linked, such as here, here, here and here.
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The 2012 Global Gender Report
(The text and links below are from here) The Global Gender Gap Report, introduced by the World Economic Forum in 2006, provides a framework for capturing the magnitude and scope of gender-based disparities around the world. The index benchmarks national … Continue reading
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“‘Gender Gap’ Near Historic Highs”
NYT article by that title here. Below is an excerpt: The biggest gender gap to date in the exit polls came in 2000, when Al Gore won by 11 points among women, but George W. Bush won by 9 points … Continue reading
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Binders Full of Asshats
Historiann has the best binders analysis anywhere.
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Staten Island Borough President Calls Lady Gaga a ‘Slut,’ Manhattan Borough President Defends Her, Pace Law Professor Wishes Politicians Would Simply Leave Artist Alone
Brief news account of slut calling by James Molinaro here. Response by Scott Stringer here. The Pace Law Professor who wishes both of them would focus on making NYC a better place for all citizens and let Lady Gaga get … Continue reading
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Iranian Women Now Barred From Numerous College Majors Including Engineering, Nuclear Physics, Computer Science, English Literature, Archaeology and Business.
From the BBC News: More than 30 universities have introduced new rules banning female students from almost 80 different degree courses. These include a bewildering variety of subjects from engineering, nuclear physics and computer science, to English literature, archaeology and … Continue reading
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Bias concerns about sex education in New York.
Here. An excerpt: In some districts, students learn that HIV/AIDS will kill them within three years. Another district used material which defined the vagina as a “sperm deposit.” Two-thirds do not depict or label external female genitalia. In fact, much … Continue reading
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“President Obama Appoints Record Number of Women Judges in First Term”
ABA Journal story here, which reports: The Senate’s confirmation Monday of Stephanie Rose as a federal judge in the Southern District of Iowa gave President Obama a record. Obama has now appointed 72 women to the federal courts, a record … Continue reading
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VAWA and Native Women
From Greg Kaufmann at The Nation: In July, I reported that Republican House leadership is blocking reauthorization of a strengthened Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). No one needs this bill passed more desperately than Native women: one in three will … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Acts of Violence, Coerced Sex, Feminism and Politics, Women's Health
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Gender, Religion and Military Service in Israel
If this topic is of interest, read “What Happens When the Two Israels Meet,” an Op-Ed by Shani Boianjiu in the NYT.
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Law Professor Elizabeth Warren at the DNC!
http://youtu.be/GasFinZPShs
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GOP staffer pretends to be former Obama supporter who is “breaking up with him.”
Here is the commercial: The new ad features Republican National Committee Director of Hispanic Outreach Bettina Inclan, who in the ad purports to be an average woman voter who supported Obama in 2008. She describes her disillusionment with the president … Continue reading
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Corcos on “The Shift to Equal Rights of Succession to Thrones and Titles in the Modern European Constitutional Monarchy”
Christine Corcos (LSU) has posted to SSRN an abstract of her article forthcoming in the Michigan State Law Review. Here it is: On October 27, 2011, the heads of the British Commonwealth member states agreed to remove barriers to the … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Law, Feminism and Politics, Sisters In Other Nations, The Underrepresentation of Women
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CFP: “Black Women in Politics”
From the FLP mailbox: The editors of The National Political Science Review (NPSR) invite submissions from the scholarly community for review and possible publication for a Special Issue on: BLACK WOMEN IN POLITICS: MOVING FORWARD — NEW QUESTIONS, NEW DIRECTIONS … Continue reading
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Sisters Speaking Out, Nuns on the Bus
From the AP: The accompanying news story (here) explains: A group of Roman Catholic nuns began a nine-state bus tour protesting proposed federal budget cuts Monday, saying they weren’t trying to flout recent Vatican criticisms of socially active nuns but … Continue reading
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Inniss on “Bridging the Great Divide”
Lolita Buckner Inniss has published Bridging the Great Divide–A Response to Linda Greenhouse and Reva B. Siegel’s Before (and After) Roe v. Wade: New Questions About Backlash, 89 Wash. U. L. Rev. 963 (2012). Here is the abstract: This essay … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Politics, Feminism and Religion, Feminist Legal Scholarship, Reproductive Rights
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Women in the Media as in Society?
Despite the backlash following his “slut” and “prostitute” references about Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke, Rush Limbaugh continues to denigrate women. More recently, he targeted Tracie McMillan, journalist and author of the book, The American Way of Eating, and stated, … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Activism, Feminism and Culture, Feminism and Law, Feminism and Politics, Feminism and the Workplace, Feminists in Academia, If you're a woman, Justice?, Law Schools, Law Teaching, Legal Profession, Masculinity, Race and Racism, Sexism in the Media, Where are the Women?
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Rush Finally Apologizes (Sort Of)
Rush Limbaugh has apologized (in his way) for comments about Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke (whom he called Susan and identified as a college coed). Here is his statement, posted to his show’s website. Ms. Fluke recently testified as at … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Feminism and Law, Feminism and Politics, Feminism and Religion, Law Schools
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U Buffalo Faculty Wants School to Stop Supporting Business Groups That Endorse Conservative Causes
Yesterday’s Chronicle includes an article Faculty Union Calls on U. at Buffalo to Cut Ties to Chambers of Commerce that mentions Feminist Law Professor Martha McCluskey. Journalist Peter Schmidt writes: Opening a new front in the conflict between college labor unions … Continue reading
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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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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
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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
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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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“Open Letter from Black Women to the SlutWalk”
Black Women’s Blueprint has posted to Facebook (here) and its blog (here) this “Open Letter from Black Women to the SlutWalk”: We the undersigned women of African descent and anti-violence advocates, activists, scholars, organizational and spiritual leaders wish to address … Continue reading
Posted in Acts of Violence, Feminism and Politics, Feminist Blogs Of Interest, Race and Racism
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Spindelman on “Sexual Freedom’s Shadows”
Marc Spindelman (Ohio State) has published his essay Sexual Freedom’s Shadows, 23 Yale J.L. & Feminism 179 (2011). It is both review of a book by Tim Dean called Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking (UChicago Press, 2009), … Continue reading
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Ouellete’s “Bioethics and Disability: Toward a Disability-Conscious Bioethics”
Alicia Ouellete (Albany) has published a new book, Bioethics and Disability: Toward a Disability-Conscious Bioethics, with Cambridge University Press. Here‘s the publisher’s description: Bioethics and Disability provides tools for understanding the concerns, fears, and biases that have convinced some people with disabilities … Continue reading
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Prostitution and HIV Funding: Unconstitutional Condition Case from Second Circuit
If an organization did not have a “policy explicitly opposing prostitution” – – – the so-called prostitution pledge – – – then the program could not obtain funding under the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of … Continue reading
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Tagged HIV, sex work
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Is Rep. Anthony Weiner a Sexual Harasser?
I answer in the negative, here. -Bridget Crawford
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Kirsten Powers’ Op-Ed About Anthony Weiner
Available at the Daily Beast. Below is an excerpt: By far the most disturbing information that we have been privy to—there is, no doubt, more out there that we don’t know—is the transcript of a nine-month “sexting” relationship Weiner had … Continue reading
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Lying Makes it Grow: Anthony Weiner’s Battle of the (Underwear) Bulge Gets Bigger
Earlier this evening New York Representative Anthony Weiner admitted that indeed the infamous underwear bulge was his. Weiner held a press conference in which he acknowledged that he had sent an underwear-clad picture of himself with an erection to a … Continue reading
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Rebuilding Sierra Leone
In April my South Carolina colleague Joel Samuels organized and hosted a conference entitled “Rebuilding Sierra Leone: Changing Institutions and Culture”. Valerie Oosterveld posted about it at IntLawGrrls and I’ve been remiss in not posting about it sooner. By all accounts … Continue reading
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Equality Now update
Equality Now has recently published three Letters to the Editor in the New York Times: “Power, Status and a Charge of Rape” (5/18/11); “Women’s Rights in Yemen“(4/22/11); and “Female Genital Mutilation” (5/13/11). Learn more here.
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“Why Is There No Motherhood.gov?”
Elizabeth Losh asks that question here, writing: This month the comforting voice of Barack Obama is plugging a new government website in a series of public service announcements. Listeners are urged to visit Fatherhood.gov, which describes itself as a “National Responsible … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Politics, Masculinity, The Overrepresentation of Men
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Tax Credits for Abortion
Could the federal government offer tax credits for abortion? That’s what one commenter asks over here at Metafilter, about the implications of the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn (copy of … Continue reading
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NYT Editorial: “The War on Women”
From today’s New York Times, this editorial, entitled The War on Women: Republicans in the House of Representatives are mounting an assault on women’s health and freedom that would deny millions of women access to affordable contraception and life-saving cancer … Continue reading
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Tax Law and the Culture War
U.S. Representative Chris Smith (R-N.J.) recently introduced a bill in Congress titled the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act.” It is bill number 3 in the House of Representatives. As Representative Smith explains to NPR: “The fact that it is … Continue reading
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Taxing Abortion
From NPR (here): House Republicans formally launch their latest effort to roll back abortion rights this week, and they’re aiming squarely for the tax code. On the docket already are two bills: One would make permanent the decades-old “Hyde amendment,” … Continue reading
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Dearth of Women Candidates for Judgeships
For some time now, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette‘s Monday business section has been devoted entirely to law and the legal profession. In this morning’s edition, there was an interesting article about the dearth of women candidates for judgeships on statewide courts … Continue reading
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Columbia SIPA Students, Don’t Pull a Clarence Thomas
The Daily Pennsylvanian reports here: Though students at Columbia University were advised to think twice before tweeting “#WikiLeaks,” Penn students have received no similar warning. WikiLeaks — a website that exposes confidential diplomatic messages — recently released information on topics … Continue reading
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7th Annual National Young Feminist Leadership Conference, March 12-14 in Washington, DC
From the FLP mailbox, this information about the 7th Annual National Young Feminist Leadership Conference, March 12-14 in Washington, D.C. More info and registration is here. -Bridget Crawford
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What’s Wrong With “Women’s Rights,” and Why the US Should Ratify CEDAW Anyway
The Senate Judiciary Committee recently debated whether the United States should ratify CEDAW, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. CEDAW guarantees a wide range of equal rights to women in areas such as employment, … Continue reading
How Female Candidates Fared in the Elections: Demographics Matter
Courtesy of the Rutgers Center for Women and American Politics, this table showing how female candidates fared in yesterday’s elections: General Election State Office Dist. Candidate Name & Party Seat Won Lost AK Lt. Gov. Diane Benson (D) O U.S. … Continue reading
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