Monthly Archives: October 2008

Defining The Third Wave

Jen Nedeau gives it a try here.

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CFP – Transgender Law: Challenging the Boundaries of Law and Gender”

Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center’s Journal of Race, Gender and Ethnicity: Call for Papers and Presenters Touro Law Center’s online Journal of Race, Gender and Ethnicity is pleased to announce a symposium, Transgender Law: Challenging the Boundaries of … Continue reading

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Paula A. Monopoli, “In a Different Voice: Lessons from Ledbetter”

The abstract: Women in academia – among some of the best educated women in America – suffer from the same salary inequities as other women in society. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has found that women faculty “earn … Continue reading

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Jennifer S. Hendricks, “Instead of ENDA, A Course Correction for Title VII”

Here is the abstract: In September 2008, the D.C. federal court issued a landmark decision holding that discrimination against a transgender person was sex discrimination under Title VII. This decision throws into sharp relief the ongoing debates among supporters of … Continue reading

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Does the anti-retaliation provision of Title VII protect a worker who cooperates in her employer’s internal investigation of sexual harassment?

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that poses that question today. The case is Crawford v. Metropolitan Gov’t of Nashville and Davidson County, Tenn. The Sixth Circuit’s Opinion and links to all the briefs can be found … Continue reading

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Same-Sex Marriage Rate in California

An interesting book-end to this post from the other day, which links to a discussion of why the rate of same-sex marriage in Canada is so low, is a story in today’s New York Times. The story quotes a new … Continue reading

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Who Does She Think She Is?

How many female artists can you name?   Lots of women go to art school, but they don’t become famous. This is a documentary about women artists. Trailer here. The movie even has a blog, here.

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“An organic wine from Chile has oenophiles in San Francisco turning up their noses. But there’s nothing wrong with the wine. It’s the name that bothers them….In Houston, Palin Syrah has been flying off the shelves at Cepage Noir Wine Company.”

So says this article, which also reports: … Since McCain picked Sarah Palin, Palin Syrah has caused as many heated debates among wine shoppers as the candidate has among voters. “We’ve had couples come in and one in the couple … Continue reading

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Take the Language Log Survey

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“Why most Canadian gays and lesbians are choosing not to marry”

Lengthy article at this website, below are the opening paragraphs: Legalized same-sex marriage recently celebrated its third anniversary in Canada. Yet the majority of Canadian gays and lesbians are still choosing not to get married. Despite initial predictions by some … Continue reading

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“India’s female detectives track down Internet cheats”

An interesting overview of how the Internet is affecting marriages in India from here: However splendid everything appeared about his daughter’s prospective husband, something in the pit of her father’s stomach told him that something was wrong. The groom-to-be seemed … Continue reading

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Racism in the ways HIV is linked to Africa

Explained here, at Diary of An Anxious Black Woman.

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Yale Law School Is Hosting A Symposium Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act

A Symposium that is being held at Yale Law School on November 7-8th in celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. The Symposium, entitled Respecting Expecting: The 30th Anniversary of the PDA, is being organized by the … Continue reading

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Unity Day and A Deepening Financial Crisis

Today is Unity Day, celebrated since 1981 it is the first Monday in October and was intended to provide an opportunity for connection among advocates supporting victims of domestic violence. October is also Domestic Violence Awareness Month> (see the National … Continue reading

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White Privilege Filtered Through Male Privilege

Skylanda at Echidne of the Snakes writes: Apparently I’m the last liberal on the block to get forwarded a copy of Tim Wise’s latest missive on racism in America. I hadn’t heard of Tim Wise before, but maybe you have. … Continue reading

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“The internet is not going to coddle and comfort you. In fact, the internet wants you out of here.”

That’s a quote from Ann Althouse on the subject of women and law blogging. I had to extract it from a much longer post larded with the usual Althousian misogynistic exceptionalism, but this part at least makes a lot of … Continue reading

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Female Voices in the Legal Blogosphere

Via Law.com: Diane Amman, IntLawGrrls Monica Bay, The Common Scold Kathleen Bergin and Josie F. Brown, First Amendment Law Prof blog Nicole Black, Sui Generis Julie Fleming Brown, Life at the Bar Mary Dudziak, Legal History Blog Carolyn Elefant, My … Continue reading

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“That Nucular Thing”

Or, why picking on Sarah Palin’s speech patterns is wrong.

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Revenge Porn

Jezebel overview here. I discussed revenge porn in this article, explaining why copyright law as currently configured doesn’t have much to offer victims, but could be changed so that it did. –Ann Bartow

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On Being Bad For Feminism’s Image

In this essay, author Monica Dux writes: While researching our book my co-author Zora Simic and I asked women what turned them off the feminist label. The most common answer was that it’s the man-hating, hairy-legged lesbian. In a way … Continue reading

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Nudity, Gender, Art and Politics

Traipse through any art museum and, though it was controversial in its time, you will see lots of paintings like this Manet: The men are clothed, the women are naked.   Activist group The Guerilla Girls trenchantly observed: And it … Continue reading

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Do Women Hate Sarah Palin Because She Is “Too Pretty” and “Too Confident”?

Time Magazine thinks so. Well, one Time Magazine writer, and her editors and publisher, anyway. Here’s an excerpt: What the Democrats learned during the primaries and the Republicans might now be finding out the hard way, I learned at my … Continue reading

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More on Taxing Sarah Palin’s Per Diem

Over at TaxProf, Paul Caron has links  to Sarah Palin’s newly released tax returns. It appears, as Paul says, that Governor Palin did not report her per diems or the travel reimbursements for her family as income. In support of … Continue reading

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Mary Dudziak on Women and Law Blogging

A twofer: Women and Blogging: what you can do right now at the Legal History Blog and cross-posted at Balkinization.

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Judge Sentences Porn Producer Paul Little, aka Max Hardcore, To 46 Months In Prison

From the Tampa Tribune: His pornographic persona, Max Hardcore, is all swagger and sadism – forcing women in his movies to do things that can’t be described in a family newspaper. But in federal court today, as he faced a … Continue reading

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“U.S. Judge Kozinski Accused of Ethics Breach by Lawyer Critic”

This article is a fairly detailed overview of the Kozinski porn story, written by Cynthia Cotts of Bloomberg News. And I am quoted in it. Cotts contacted me and asked if I would give her my opinion about some of … Continue reading

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