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Clay Shirky’s “A Rant About Women” From Two Years Ago
Read it here. Below is an excerpt: “… Some of the most important opportunities we have are in two-sided markets: education and employment, contracts and loans, grants and prizes. And the institutions that offer these opportunities operate in an environment … Continue reading
Amanda Marcotte on the False Digital vs. “Real Life” Activism Dichotomy
Over at On the Issues Magazine, Amanda Marcotte writes about Getting Over the the Online vs. Offline Debate. Here is an excerpt: [T[he distinction between online and offline life is collapsing to the point of meaninglessness, making some of the … Continue reading
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Grief for the Children One Couldn’t or Didn’t Have
Writer Charlotte Bacon describes her pilgrimage to a Bhutanese temple: [T]his was the place to release the grief that had come with the obstetric misery that dogged my late 30s. We had our son with ease when I was almost … Continue reading
Egg Donor Motivation: Sacrificing Truth for Profit?
Over at Jezebel, Jenna Marotta asks (here), “Do Egg Donors Lie?” Ms. Marotta was rejected as an egg donor about her experience because she admitted to having a family history of depression. She wonders whether other women lie about mental … Continue reading
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Cyber-Activism: Petition to Apple CEO Tim Cook Requesting Siri Directions to Family Planning Services
There’s an internet-based petition addressed to Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, Apple, Apple PR and iPhone 4s, which says: Apple: Stop promoting anti-choice extremists. If a user asks for family planning services, they should be directed to a group that … Continue reading
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Apple and Siri’s Anti-Choice Politics
Over at The Raw Story (here), Megan Carpentier reports on “10 things the iPhone Siri will help you get instead of an abortion”: Ask the Siri, the new iPhone 4 assistant, where to get an abortion, and, if you happen … 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
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Harassment, male privilege, and jokes that women just don’t get
(Cross-posted to Concurring Opinions blog) A familiar theme comes up frequently in internet discussions: Women who complain about online harassment are just missing the joke.
Posted in Feminism and Technology, Feminism and the Workplace, Sexual Harassment
Tagged harassment, internet, male privilege, sexism, threats, violence
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Redheads Need Not Apply
Cryos in Denmark claims (here) to have “the world’s largest selection of sperm donors.” According to this report in the (UK) Telegraph, Cryos no longer accepts donations from redheaded sperm donors. “There are too many redheads in relation to demand,” … Continue reading
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Review of Rene Almeling, “Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm”
Rene Almeling’s new book, Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm, explores the inner workings of the world of donor gametes, and then sets these observations in the larger contexts of gender and commodification. Almeling, a sociologist at Yale, collected data … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Technology, Reproductive Rights
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“What is Feminist About Open Access?”
That’s the title of this article by Carys Craig (Osgoode), Joseph Turcotte and Rosemary Coombe (York U.). Here is the abstract: In a context of great technological and social change, existing intellectual property regimes such as copyright must contend with … Continue reading
Assisted Reproduction: A Man’s Perspective on that Small Room and Big Cup
Paul Ford writes in The Age of Mechanical Reproduction (here) of his experiences with assisted reproductive technology and the quest to have a child via IVF: When I tell people what we are doing, they want to hear about the … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Medicine, Feminism and Technology, The Overrepresentation of Women
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Battle of the (Underwear) Bulge: Anthony Weiner, Twitter and Evolutionary Theory
I really, really want to take up Amy Wax’s call (here) to pay attention to mostly-neglected (by feminist legal scholars, that is) methodologies of economists, empirical social scientists and evolutionary theorists: Evolutionary theory seeks to offer a scientifically grounded account … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Science, Feminism and Technology, Sexual Harassment
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Patent Law and the Female Body
Written Description is a blog by Dr. Lisa Larrimore Ouellette. The blog reviews “Recent Scholarship on Patent Law, IP Theory, and Innovation.” (Dr. Ouellette also is a 3L at Yale Law School.) Today, Written Description features this post by Dr. Allison … Continue reading
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Chandra on “Surrogacy and India”
Mr. Smith Chandra, a student at the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research University in Hyerabad, India has posted to SSRN his working paper Surrogacy and India. Here is the abstract: The Law Commission of India has submitted the … Continue reading
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Googlebombing Links “Murder” and Wikipedia Entry For Abortion
Via Reddit.
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CFP: Women and New Media in the Mediterranean Region
From the FLP mailbox, this call for abstracts from the Isis Center for Women and Development: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WOMEN & NEW MEDIA IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION ISIS CENTER FOR WOMEN & DEVELOPMENT June 24, 25, 26, 2011 – Fez, Morocco … Continue reading
Joslin on “Protecting Children(?): Marriage, Gender, and Assisted Reproductive Technology”
Courtney Joslin (UC Davis) has posted to SSRN her new piece, Protecting Children(?): Marriage, Gender, and Assisted Reproductive Technology, 83 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1177 (2010). Here is the abstract: The Supreme Court has declared that children should not be penalized based … Continue reading
Public Forum Series in London on Gender and Scientific Advances
The University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies is holding a three public fora in London on November 2, 2010. The theme is gender and bio-medical advances of the 21st Century. Here’s the info: November 2, 2010: “Making Babies in the … Continue reading
New Controversy at Duke University
As described at Jezebel.com: “ Duke [University] is in an uproar about a highly detailed “fuck list” that a recent female graduate made — in PowerPoint, complete with penis-size evaluations and dirty-talk transcripts. Upon graduating, the author decided to pass … Continue reading
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The Emotional Darkness of Hate: Suicide at Rutgers
Last week Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge. The (Newark) Star-Leger reports here: Freshman Tyler Clementi was enrolled at Rutgers University for a little more than three weeks when he asked his roommate … Continue reading
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What’s Wrong with Cyberspace? An “Atrophied Sense of Humility and Charity”
Professor Alan Jacobs (English, Wheaton College) has a reflective post on “The Online State of Nature” over at Big Questions Online. It is inspired at least in part by the cartoon at right (image source: here at xkcd.com). I have … Continue reading
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Humbach Podcast on “Sexting and the First Amendment”
My colleague John Humbach has a podcast here discussing many of the issues he raises in his article, Sexting and the First Amendment, 37 Hastings Const. Law Q. 433 (2010). Here’s a description of the podcast: Sexting is a new … Continue reading
“Sexting: Youth Practices and Legal Implications”
Abstract: This document addresses legal and practical issues related to the practice colloquially known as sexting. It was created by Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic, based at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, for the Berkman Center’s Youth and Media … Continue reading
Posted in Coerced Sex, Feminism and Technology, Sexual Harassment
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Cohen and Chen on “Trading-Off Reproductive Technology and Adoption”
I. Glenn Cohen (Harvard) and Daniel L. Chen (Duke) have posted to SSRN their article, Trading-Off Reproductive Technology and Adoption: Does Subsidizing in Vitro Fertilization Decrease Adoption Rates and Should it Matter? forthcoming in the Minnesota Law Review. Here is the abstract: For … Continue reading
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Duncan on Sexting
Susan Duncan (Louisville) has posted to SSRN her working paper, "A Legal Response is Necessary for Self Produced Child Pornography: A Legislator’s Checklist for Drafting the Bill." Here is the abstract: This Article explores self produced child pornography, known in … Continue reading
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Could it be you don’t have any?
Fun with corporate website search functions: Via.
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The De-Anonymization of the Internet Begins In Earnest
From this article entitled “Start-Up Links 65 Million IP Addresses To Users, Readies Targeting Platform”: … [T]he company ClearSight Interactive is getting ready to launch a form of targeting based on users’ IP addresses. ClearSight, which describes IP addresses as … Continue reading
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The Internet Pile-on over a Woman Dean’s Paycheck
The legal blogosphere has been embroiled recently in a series of discussions about Karen Rothenberg, formerly dean at Maryland law. For those living in a cave (or avoiding Above the Law as a paper-finishing strategy), the basic facts are these: … Continue reading
“Teens and Social Media” – Girls Rule
From the Pew Research Center: Content creation by teenagers continues to grow, with 64% of online teenagers ages 12 to 17 engaging in at least one type of content creation, up from 57% of online teens in 2004. Girls continue … Continue reading
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iMisogyny? There’s an app for that.
Jessica Roy lays it down here at Broadsheet.
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The Internet in 1993
Some of the optimism about online norms was greatly misplaced. –Ann Bartow
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Google’s newly patented “A method of providing an interactive game based on a digital video” reportedly perfect for pornography.
From Gawker: …Didn’t [the PTO] think it was fishy when Google credited 11 inventors on two continents in its newly-issued patent? That‘s a lot of brainpower for child’s play, and even for, as the patent calls it, a broader “WEB-BASED … Continue reading
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On Forging Sustainable Parental Bonds.
Last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine cover story, Who Knew I was Not the Father?, discusses the complexities of identifying which men to label as”fathers.” The article told the heartbreaking stories of men who believed that they were the biological … Continue reading
Where are the Women? – Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Advisory Board Edition: 19 men, 2 women.
UPDATE: All of the EFF Fellows appear to be … fellows. EFF Advisory Board members as of today per EFF website: Andrew Bridges is a partner in the San Francisco office of Winston & Strawn LLP where he litigates and … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Law, Feminism and Technology, The Underrepresentation of Women
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Deputies Caught Stealing Documents From Defense Attorney During Court Proceeding
From this article: …The tape shows Stoddard walking to the defense table during a sentencing that day. He leans over the table and begins reading from a document in the file of defense attorney Joanne Cuccia, who was speaking before … Continue reading
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Google Search Has Gender Issues
From Stiletto Revolt, where there are several additional illustrations. –Ann Bartow
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Maybe there are nude pictures of you on the Internet.
Because maybe you have disrobed in a medical facility: A traffic stop led officers to discover that a Willard man allegedly has been compiling nude photos of patients from the medical facility where he worked. … … The officers later … Continue reading
Wisconsin Teen Charged with Blackmailing Other Students for Nude Photos
From here: A 14-year-old Whitnall [WI] High School student is accused of coercing teen girls into sending him sexually explicit photos of themselves. … … The photos investigation began Sept. 21 when two students provided information to the Greenfield police … Continue reading
How are my legal subject areas doing re: gender balance?
Brian Leiter conducted a poll regarding the Top Law Faculties for Intellectual Property and Cyberspace Law. The results give a window into the subject specific gender balance at each of the “Top 24″ schools. There were 95 men and 45 … Continue reading
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Settlement in the AutoAdmit Case
From the Associated Press: A lawyer for two former Yale University law students says they have settled their lawsuit against several people they accused of posting sexually harassing and threatening messages about them on an Internet site. San Francisco attorney … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Technology, Law Schools
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Pornography at the National Science Foundation
The Washington Times is not a publication I ordinarily read or have any confidence in. Nevertheless, the allegations made in this article appear to be accurate: … The budget request doesn’t state the nature or number of the misconduct cases, … Continue reading
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Using data from the social network Facebook, MIT students find that just by looking at a person’s online friends, they can predict whether someone is homosexual.
From the NYT: … The idea behind the MIT work, done in 2007, is as old as the adage that birds of a feather flock together. For years, sociologists have known of the”homophily principle”- the tendency for similar people to … Continue reading
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Decal I want…
So I’m going to buy one here when they are back in stock. NB: This is NOT a paid or compensated (in any way) mention. –Ann Bartow
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CFP: 2010 Hamline Law Review Symposium Request for Proposals “The Evolution of Trade Secret Law: Reflecting on 30 Years of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act”
On Friday, April 16, 2010, Hamline University School of Law and the Hamline Law Review will present a symposium to mark the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (the UTSA). The editors of the Hamline … Continue reading
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“A cyberbullying case in Saint Charles County, Missouri, will test a year-old state law on electronic harassment. The law makes it a felony for someone 21 years or older to communicate with someone 17 years or younger by phone or electronic means in order to recklessly frighten, intimidate, or cause emotional distress to that person.”
From CNET News: … Elizabeth Thrasher, 40, allegedly posted a photo and personal contact details of a teenage girl in the Casual Encounters section of Craigslist during the spring. The teen reportedly received phone calls, e-mails, and text messages from … Continue reading
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“A new study conducted by Wikimedia Foundation suggests that only 13% of Wikipedia contributors are women.”
This won’t surprise anybody who actually pays attention to the climate of the editing discussions on many wikipedia pages. This blog post notes: According to the The Wall Street Journal, the survey took place in November of last year, with … Continue reading
Video Memorial to Deceased Porn Actors
Here. Produced by Shelley Lubben.
Posted in Acts of Violence, Coerced Sex, Feminism and Technology, The Overrepresentation of Women, Women's Health
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The Scary Spectre of Professional Identity Theft
From Inside Higher Ed: One deleted e-mail marked the beginning of my ordeal. It was finals week, just before Christmas break, when I received a strange message asking me to comment on some kind of online political essay that I … Continue reading
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