Last week, the EU Commission on Research and Innovation launched a new initiative, the “Women in Research and Innovation” Campaign, with the slogan “Science: It’s a Girl Thing.” Apparently, it was an excellent idea marred by somewhat questionable execution. It came … Continue reading →

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CFP: Gender, Public Space and Surveillance

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

From the FLP mailbox, this CFP: CALL FOR PAPERS Expanding the Gaze: Gender, Public Space, and Surveillance Deadline: September 15, 2012 The past decade has witnessed an explosion of scholarship covering the broad area of surveillance studies. Surveillance, or the … Continue reading →

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What is in a Name?

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Via Tech Crunch (here), this chart: -Bridget Crawford

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Glenn Cohen on “Beyond Best Interests”

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Glenn Cohen (Harvard) has posted to SSRN his article Beyond Best Interests, 96 Minn. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2012). Here is the abstract: As Justice Douglas wrote in Skinner v. Oklahoma, procreation is one of the “basic civil rights of man.” … Continue reading →

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The Politics of Research in the Digital Humanities

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Jacqueline Wernimont (English, Scripps College) asks (here), “Can XML be feminist?” I’m currently working on an article that considers certain digital archives and their technological structures from a feminist perspective. Of particular interest to me is the possibility of feminist … Continue reading →

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Michigan State Symposium on “Modernizing Marriage through E-Marriage”

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

Check out some of the great pieces from the Michigan State Law Review Symposium on “Modernizing Marriage.” Kerry Abrams, Peaceful Penetration: Proxy Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, and Recognition, 2011 Mich. St. L. Rev. 141-172 This Essay is a contribution to a … Continue reading →

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Clay Shirky’s “A Rant About Women” From Two Years Ago

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Ann Bartow

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 →

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Amanda Marcotte on the False Digital vs. “Real Life” Activism Dichotomy

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

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

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Bridget Crawford

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 →

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Egg Donor Motivation: Sacrificing Truth for Profit?

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

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

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

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

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

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

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

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

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Kaimipono D. Wenger

(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.

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Redheads Need Not Apply

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

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”

Posted on September 14, 2011 by admin

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 →

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“What is Feminist About Open Access?”

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

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 →

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Assisted Reproduction: A Man’s Perspective on that Small Room and Big Cup

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

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 →

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Battle of the (Underwear) Bulge: Anthony Weiner, Twitter and Evolutionary Theory

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

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 →

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Patent Law and the Female Body

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

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”

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

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

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Ann Bartow

Via Reddit.

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CFP: Women and New Media in the Mediterranean Region

Posted on January 9, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

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 →

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Joslin on “Protecting Children(?): Marriage, Gender, and Assisted Reproductive Technology”

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Bridget Crawford

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 →

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Public Forum Series in London on Gender and Scientific Advances

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Bridget Crawford

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 →

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New Controversy at Duke University

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Audrey Rogers

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

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Bridget Crawford

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”

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Bridget Crawford

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”

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Bridget Crawford

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 →

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“Sexting: Youth Practices and Legal Implications”

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Ann Bartow

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 →

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Cohen and Chen on “Trading-Off Reproductive Technology and Adoption”

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Bridget Crawford

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

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Bridget Crawford

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?

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Ann Bartow

Fun with corporate website search functions: Via.

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The De-Anonymization of the Internet Begins In Earnest

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Ann Bartow

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

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Bridget Crawford

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 →

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“Teens and Social Media” – Girls Rule

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Ann Bartow

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.

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Ann Bartow

Jessica Roy lays it down here at Broadsheet.

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The Internet in 1993

Posted on December 13, 2009 by Ann Bartow

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.

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Ann Bartow

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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Funny? Creepy? Both? Neither?

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Ann Bartow

–Ann Bartow

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On Forging Sustainable Parental Bonds.

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Ann Bartow

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 →

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Where are the Women? – Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Advisory Board Edition: 19 men, 2 women.

Posted on November 16, 2009 by Ann Bartow

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 →

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Deputies Caught Stealing Documents From Defense Attorney During Court Proceeding

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Ann Bartow

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

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Ann Bartow

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.

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Ann Bartow

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 →

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Wisconsin Teen Charged with Blackmailing Other Students for Nude Photos

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Ann Bartow

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 →

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How are my legal subject areas doing re: gender balance?

Posted on October 23, 2009 by Ann Bartow

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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