Monthly Archives: March 2008

Review of “Math Doesn’t Suck” by Jennifer Thurston

Posted on March 21, 2008 by Ann Bartow

Here, at Women’s Enews. Here is an excerpt: … If you’re a female teen who dreads middle school math, you might just go to a bookstore and consider buying “Math Doesn’t Suck.” It’s that girly-girl math text by TV actress … Continue reading →

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“An Agent, a Green Card, and a Demand for Sex”

Posted on March 21, 2008 by Ann Bartow

This NYT article details the sexual blackmail that an immigration agent has been accused of.

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Not Sure What To Make Of This E-mail

Posted on March 20, 2008 by Ann Bartow

All it contained was a link to a seven year old newspaper article. Marginally more palatable than the photo of the dismembered penis I received yesterday, but still odd. –Ann Bartow

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Best Post Title Seen Today: “Women Are Highly Underrepresented In Corporate America. Corporate America Is A Laughingstock. Coincidence?”

Posted on March 20, 2008 by Ann Bartow

The accompanying blog entry is here, at Jezebel.

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Ruminations on Tenure

Posted on March 20, 2008 by Ann Bartow

By the brilliant Historiann, here. She writes in part: … Although feminist intellectuals who have sophisticated understandings about how power works, we still feel shame about our own experiences. We still see them–to one degree or another–as personal failures, rather … Continue reading →

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Doctors and Cosmetic Surgery

Posted on March 20, 2008 by Ann Bartow

At Concurring Opinions, Frank Pasquale explains why top medical students would rather treat wrinkles than diabetes.

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AutoAdmit Suit Update

Posted on March 20, 2008 by Ann Bartow

From the WSJ.com Law Blog: Things are beginning to heat up in the case brought by two female Yale Law students against anonymous writers for defamation, infliction of emotional distress and other wrongdoings they allegedly committed while posting comments about … Continue reading →

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“What You Should Know About Clinical Trials”

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Ann Bartow

Interesting, link filled post at Our Bodies, Our Blog.

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Another Reason Not To “Go Wild”

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Ann Bartow

This. Joe Francis will reap a windfall he didn’t earn and doesn’t deserve.

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June Carbone, “From Partners to Parents Revisited: How Will Ideas of Partnership Influence the Emerging Definition of California Parenthood?”

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Ann Bartow

Abstract: This article considers the role of the partners’ relationship to each other in the context of the new California parentage cases. These rulings, which expand recognition of functional parents without marriage, domestic partnership registration, biology or adoption, attempt to … Continue reading →

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Meant for Autos, But Might There Be a Teaching Application?

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Ann Bartow

You are looking at a novelty pop up middle finger, ideal to stick on passenger window, finger is operated by squeezing a pump.

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Samantha Bee on Goobernatorial Malfeasance

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Ann Bartow

Here. Via Echidne.

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Bacon Blogs, I Really Can’t Explain Why

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Ann Bartow

Bacon Unwrapped Theories of Bacon Blog The Bacon Show From here. I’m a vegetarian and this is making me a bit queasy, to be honest. –Ann Bartow

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Milk, Milk Everywhere

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Bridget Crawford

So the “Working From the World Up” conference at Wisconsin was great.   One of my most salient non-academic impressions from two days there was that people in Wisconsin like to drink milk,  or  at least they  like to have … Continue reading →

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“Some Thoughts on Competitive Cheer”

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Ann Bartow

Go read them at the excellent Title IX Blog.

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Another Post About Bacon, Apparently A Continuing Series

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Ann Bartow

This time it’s about bacon flavored rolling papers. Yet another reason not to smoke or do drugs. Other posts about bacon here, and here. And who could forget: For sale here. Oh yeah, and then there is this.

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“I Blame The Patriarchy” is Active Again

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Ann Bartow

And not a moment too soon!

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“Eve, a.d. 2,000!” as predicted in the 1930s

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Ann Bartow

Oh, swish!

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Guest Post: Wal-Mart Watch

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Ann Bartow

I’m a blogger over at Wal-Mart Watch. I’m writing to pass along a video we’ve put together from footage of a 1995 Wal-Mart managers meeting. As you’ll see in the video, someone decided it would be a great idea to … Continue reading →

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Ashley Herzog asks: “How long before feminists try to censor this?”

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Ann Bartow

Ashley Herzog is a staff writer at   The (University of Ohio) Post who authored a 3/13/2008 article headlined “The Other Side: Despite feminist denial, sexes are wired differently,” in which she asserts thst “feminists” will “try to censor” a … Continue reading →

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South Carolina No. 4 in New Study of”Most Dangerous”Places to Live

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Ann Bartow

Rankings data here. This is in part because the Palmetto State has the highest level of violence of any state in the nation. See also (“…South Carolina has ranked first in the nation, per capita, for violent crime in all … Continue reading →

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On “Torture Porn”

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Ann Bartow

Rachel Corbett writes at Women’s Enews: When the movie “Hostel” raked in $19 million on its debut weekend and gripped the No. 1 spot for a week in 2005, some critics heralded the comeback of horror, which had been in … Continue reading →

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CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ANNOUNCES NEW FELLOWSHIP WITH COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL

Posted on March 17, 2008 by Ann Bartow

The Center for Reproductive Rights today announces a new fellowship with Columbia Law School for graduates pursuing legal academic careers in reproductive health and human rights. The Center-Columbia Fellow will be affiliated with both Columbia Law School and the Center, … Continue reading →

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Samsung applies for patent on cell phone that monitors a woman’s menstruation cycle by measuring basal body temperature (BBT).

Posted on March 17, 2008 by Ann Bartow

Patent application here. The abstract: A basal body temperature (BBT) measurement method includes: measuring each distance to at least one ear canal area by emitting a pulse to a user’s ear canal; measuring a body temperature in the at least … Continue reading →

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Dodging Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause

Posted on March 16, 2008 by David S. Cohen

If you’re a public university in the United States that wants a new way to make money without those pesky requirements of Title IX and the Constitution, what can you do?   Open an all-male engineering school in Saudi Arabia, … Continue reading →

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His What?

Posted on March 16, 2008 by Ann Bartow

“Besides, Chris Matthews was Tip O’Neill’s buttboy, not Tim O’Neil’s.”

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Kate Zernike, “Postfeminism and Other Fairy Tales”

Posted on March 16, 2008 by Ann Bartow

In the NYT. Below is an excerpt: … It’s hardly that all women are on the same side : there were plenty of women making the points men were about prostitution after Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York resigned following … Continue reading →

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Report on “Working From the World Up” Conference

Posted on March 16, 2008 by Bridget Crawford

Yesterday was the second and final day of the conference”Working From the World Up: Equality’s Future”(subtitled”A New Legal Realism Conference Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project”).   The conference is sponsored by the University of … Continue reading →

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Scott Moss on Abortion Rights Under State Constitutional Law

Posted on March 15, 2008 by David S. Cohen

Feminist Law Professor Scott Moss has a new piece available about abortion rights under state constitutional law.   The premise, that with the ever-more-conservative Supreme Court state courts are going to be the better outlet for protecting abortion rights, echoes … Continue reading →

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New York Magazine incorrectly argues that what Spitzer did was worse than Clinton

Posted on March 15, 2008 by Ann Bartow

The article blithely ignores that prostitution in many ways involves more consent on the part of the prostitute than even a “consensual” relationship between an employer and an employee. Regardless of whether Monica desired Bill Clinton, she couldn’t have refused … Continue reading →

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Forget What Misogyny Toward Feminist Law Profs Looks Like?

Posted on March 15, 2008 by Ann Bartow

Timely reminders in the comments here if for some reason you are feeling inadequately hated on today. –Ann Bartow Update: Althouse is live blogging so there is plenty of fresh misogyny in her comments, and no doubt will be more … Continue reading →

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Green Bagels For Breakfast!

Posted on March 15, 2008 by Ann Bartow

Today I joined thousands of friends and neighbors in running the 5K Get To The Green! My time was not bad for a middle aged law prof (1,041st place, but come on, this is a college town!) and I’ve earned … Continue reading →

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“The 10 Worst Products For Men Ever Created” And They Weren’t Created By Feminists, Either!

Posted on March 14, 2008 by Ann Bartow

Here at The Art of Manliness. Scary what men will inflict on each other.

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New Law Firm Partners Are Mostly Male

Posted on March 14, 2008 by Ann Bartow

Story at “Above the Law” (which happily seems to have stopped with the “hotties” contests), and see also.

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There Is No “Normal”

Posted on March 14, 2008 by Ann Bartow

Because everything about you requires fixing. Or you could just give up, and spend the money and time you save on books and music.

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“Right of Publicity” Law Exam Question of the Damnably Damned

Posted on March 14, 2008 by Ann Bartow

Seriously creepy stuff.

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“Women in Law and Religion” International Summmer School at the U of Siena

Posted on March 14, 2008 by Ann Bartow

My name is Pasquale Annicchino and I’m a junior fellow at the Law and Religion programme at the University of Siena in Italy. I wanted to signal for the Feministlawprofs blog our International Summmer School. With the present I would … Continue reading →

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“Strip tease: Gay characters find home in comics”

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Ann Bartow

Here at SFGate.com.

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“Picturing Women”

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Ann Bartow

Picturing Women explores how women are figured, fashioned, turned into portraits, and told about in words and pictorial narrative.

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Food Court Musical

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Ann Bartow

Can I get a napkin, please?

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Candied Bacon Ice Cream

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Bridget Crawford

I was procrastinating this afternoon and came across this post on David Lebovitz’s blog describing his experiment with making candied bacon ice cream. After Ann’s post over the weekend on maple bacon lollipops, I couldn’t resist linking to this. Unlike … Continue reading →

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“Your Silence Will Not Protect You”

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Ann Bartow

A powerful call at “Diary of An Anxious Black Woman” to get radical about HIV/AIDS. Below is a short excerpt: … Unlike gay men in the ’80s, who broke the silences surrounding their sexuality – promoting condom use through newsletters … Continue reading →

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“A children’s advocacy group wants to keep a children’s hospital from putting clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch’s name on a new emergency room.”

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Ann Bartow

From CNN: … Abercrombie, known for its racy marketing campaigns aimed at teenagers, has pledged $10 million toward the construction of the emergency department at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus. The Boston-based Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood on Tuesday urged … Continue reading →

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Bed Rest

Posted on March 12, 2008 by David S. Cohen

My wife is 33 weeks pregnant and has been put on bed rest. She had a very serious case of preeclampsia last pregnancy, so the doctors are being extremely cautious this time. The difference though is that last time she … Continue reading →

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As Echidne Notes, It’s A Historical Day, Though Some Grammarians Might Argue That It Is Actually An Historical Day

Posted on March 12, 2008 by Ann Bartow

Because it is so brief, I can’t really excerpt Echidne’s post, so read it here. (On the grammar point, read this (#4).) –Ann Bartow

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“A man accused of using a camera to take pictures under the skirt of an unsuspecting 16-year-old girl at a Tulsa store did not commit a crime, a state appeals court has ruled.”

Posted on March 12, 2008 by Ann Bartow

That’s the first sentence of an article from Fox News (yes, I know, sorry) entitled “Court Drops Case of ‘Peeping Tom’ in Target; Says Victim Was Not in Private Place”, here’s the rest: The state Court of Criminal Appeals voted … Continue reading →

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A diagram of the New Sins

Posted on March 12, 2008 by Ann Bartow

From Indexed! BBC account of the New Sins here.

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Melissa Farley and Victor Malarek, “The Myth of the Victimless Crime”

Posted on March 12, 2008 by Ann Bartow

NYT Op-Ed, accessible here.

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“Law School Progress, In a Nutshell”

Posted on March 11, 2008 by Ann Bartow

Not really a fan of the Nutshell horn books, (a sentiment I once inadvertently expressed to a colleague who had authored one, whoops), but this post comprehensively captures the law school experience with impressive brevity. And, see also. –Ann Bartow

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Law Firm Produces Sexual Harassment “Emergency Reaction” Flash Card.

Posted on March 11, 2008 by Ann Bartow

Somehow it makes me want to Heimlich.

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