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Disempowering Girls as Users and Creators of Technology
Justine Cassell has written a short essay available here arguing that fears such as those about girls using social networking sites arise “in part because people are fearful of women becoming empowered as technology users and producers.” She writes: There … Continue reading
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Girlistic Magazine
You can read the premiere issue of the feminism-oriented “Girlistic Magazine” online here. The publication’s homepage is here. Via Figure: Demystifying the Feminist Mystique. Update: Celina at Feministing has an interview with Girlistic founder Jaymi Heimbuch here.
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CFP: “Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Women in Violent Conflict”
Call for Papers June 17-19, 2007 – Amsterdam, the Netherlands The Netherlands Defense Academy and Emory University Law School’s Feminism & Legal Theory Project have joined together to sponsor a symposium regarding the sexual abuse and exploitation of women and … Continue reading
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Feminism, the Sciences and Blogs
The high rate of attrition of women in the legal profession is alarming and depressing; the amount of female energy and talent that gets stupidly wasted due to sexism in the sciences appears to be an even greater tragedy. Here … Continue reading
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Live Free Or Die, But Not Of Cervical Cancer
New Hampshire to offer girls free cancer vaccine: New Hampshire announced plans Wednesday to become the first state to offer the new cervical-cancer vaccine free to all girls. Beginning in January, the vaccine against the human papilloma virus, or HPV, … Continue reading
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When You Live In South Carolina Sometimes You Find Frogs In Your Toilet
Please don’t tell the faculty candidates that we are trying to recruit. Nope, not making this up. –Ann Bartow
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Some Posts You Should Read at Women’s Space/The Margins
I don’t agree with everything she writes, and no doubt vice versa, but I don’t think there is anybody more committed to feminism blogging today than Heart. Here are four of her recent posts you should read: “Brittany Spears Crotch”: … Continue reading
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When Vomiting Passengers Work In Your Favor
That’s a fairly disgusting post title, isn’t it? I’ve had a lot of airline misadventures recently, but today the day was truly saved by vomiting passengers. I had a two part flight, and takeoff for the first leg was delayed … Continue reading
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Some Thoughtful Words About Language
At Shakespeare’s Sister. And at By Neddie Jingo. And at Tom Watson. Update: See also Echidne of the Snakes, and Zuky and Reappropriate (thanks Ms. Jared!) and here is an excellent comment by “thebewilderness” from a thread at an earlier, … Continue reading
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Too Busy To Engage In Your Own Amateur Astroturfing and Sock Puppetry?
Pay someone else to do it for you! It’s very cheap! Here’s part of the pitch: FakeYourSpace is an exciting new service that enables normal everyday people like me and you to have Hot friends on popular social networking sites … Continue reading
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Can You Guess Who The Judge Was?
In affirming a jury verdict in a sexual harassment case (though he grants the defendant a new trial if the prevailing plaintiff is unwilling to accept a much smaller punitive damages award than the jury accorded her), he wrote: Penters … Continue reading
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NPR Report: “Pennsylvania Moms Fight Hiring Bias”
Pennylvania mothers rally against a form of job discrimination. Their state is one of many where it’s not illegal to refuse ask about marital or family status during a job interview. Joel Rose of member station WHYY reports. Via kickass … Continue reading
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Rebecca J. Cook and Charles Ngwena, “Women’s Access to Health Care: The Legal Framework”
Here is the abstract: The Millennium Development Goals set ambitious targets for women’s health, including reductions in maternal and child mortality and combating the spread of HIV/AIDS. The law, which historically has often obstructed women’s access to the health care … Continue reading
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“Pronto” Condoms
According to this article: Researchers at Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction found that men who reported erection loss in association with condom use also reported more unprotected intercourse with women and were less likely … Continue reading
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A Round of Links For Everybody
“Not What I Would Call An Improvement,” at Stone Court “A Streetcar Named Bite Me” at Heavens to Mergatroyd “Where Gay Couples Are Coming Out” by Pam Spaulding at Pandagon “Subversive Gifts For Girls” at She’s Such A Geek “Seminal … Continue reading
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The World Economic Forum’s “Global Gender Gap Report 2006”
The report measures the size of the gender gap in four critical areas of inequality between men and women: 1. Economic participation and opportunity – outcomes on salaries, participation levels and access to high-skilled employment 2. Educational attainment – outcomes … Continue reading
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Ouch.
Photo available for purchase here. Caption from site is as follows: Coloured X-ray of a woman’s foot in a high-heel shoe. The construction of the shoe is clearly seen; so is the way that the foot is forced to rest … Continue reading
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And The Number One Woman On The Wall Street Journal’s “50 Women To Watch” List Is…
Melinda Gates, Bill’s wife. And while I applaud the work that the Gates Foundation is doing, I do have to wonder why she outranks the women who are running large companies. –Ann Bartow
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The Secret World of Lonelygirl15
Wired News has a long story about Lonelygirl15 here. Below is an excerpt: …Beckett ordered a pitcher of margaritas and explained that they wanted the vloggers of the YouTube community to believe that Bree was real. Flinders rationalized the deception, … Continue reading
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Nancy Levit: “Theorizing the Connections Among Systems of Subordination”
Here is the abstract: Theorizing the Connections Among Systems of Subordination introduces a symposium that addresses issues on the leading edge of identity theory, race theory, and critical social theory. It explains the concepts of anti-essentialism, intersectionality, multiple consciousness, multi-dimensionality, … Continue reading
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Nobel Winner Shirin Ebadi on Bombs and Exploitive Sex Work
From Reuters via the WaPo: Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi said on Saturday nations with nuclear capabilities should spend money to stop exploitation of women instead of making bombs. The lawyer, in India to promote women’s rights, said … Continue reading
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More Anti-Fuggery
I’ve made no secret of my contempt for Go Fug Yourself, and today I experienced a fresh resurgence of loathing. Here are just a few of the choice comments that site has recently had for actor Lindsay Lohan: … We’ve … Continue reading
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O.J. Simpson Book Cancelled
NYT story here which notes: Faced with a growing uproar, Rupert Murdoch, the chairman the News Corporation, announced this afternoon that his company had canceled publication of the pseudo-memoir/confessional by O.J. Simpson,”If I Did It,”as well as a related television … Continue reading
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Women Sold Out For Political Gain in Nicaragua
Nicaragua Eliminates Last Exception to Strict Anti-Abortion Law: … Abortion has been illegal in Nicaragua for more than a century, and most women who decide to end unwanted pregnancies seek procedures at underground clinics. But the new law strikes out … Continue reading
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Not Exactly A Model of Clarity
I generally like the jurisprudence of Justice Breyer, because I often agree with his views of the law, and really, how could I not like a Supreme Court Justice who used to be a copyright law teaching law professor? … Continue reading
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Bloggish Overview of Feminist Legal Theory
Introduction: A while back Larry Solum asked me to write a short post about feminist legal theory for his excellent Legal Theory Blog. What follows is a brief (though longer than it probably should be) overview of this scholarly subject … Continue reading
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More About Pornography
Here’s the first paragraph of an essay Aura Bogado published at ZNet in June of 2005: In August of last year, just days before the Republican National Convention in New York, I received an email from a local (Los Angeles) … Continue reading
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We’ll Laugh When We Are Equal
“[I]t doesn’t take great courage to bash someone everybody else is also already bashing.” That is a quote from Echidne of the Snakes, in a post in which she also writes: …[S]uppose now that I could morph into two versions, … Continue reading
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Robert Jensen on Pornography
Robert Jensen is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin who writes critically about pornography. To say that being anti-pornography is a culturally unpopular view is to put it lightly, and he doubtlessy spends a lot of … Continue reading
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Her Husband Got Her the Job, Isn’t He Awesome?
Many extremely brilliant law professors are romantically paired with other law professors; on a personal level, some of my favorite people in legal education are part of “two law prof” couples; and there is an overlap between these categories that … Continue reading
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“The Glass Ceiling” in Washington State
Via Heart at Women’s Space/The Margins, an article from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that reports: …In a state that made history last year by becoming the first to have a female governor and two women serving in the U.S. Senate, women … Continue reading
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Tab Stinks, Don’t Drink this Crap, Part 2
Part 1 is here. Now this: Full advertisement visible here. Blech! This demonstrates worst taste than the actual beverage, which is basically “pink carbonated essence of bathroom cleanser.” Via Counterfeit Chic.
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“The Myth of Black Women’s Progress: A Conversation with Activist and Filmmaker Aishah Shahidah Simmons”
The online version of the Black Agenda Report is featuring an interview by Tamara K. Nopper with Aishah Shahidah Simmons, who made the rape documentary NO! The interview is accessible here. Below is the opening paragraph: Aishah Shahidah Simmons is … Continue reading
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Ignore the Splog…
Some shady splog outfit is shadowing this blog. Hopefully “Quick Informative on Law Related!” will be dissuaded soon… Apologies for the trackbacks that shadow the links here.
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The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act
A recent article by Diane E. Dees at the Mojoblog pointed out that in response to steps being taken to stop institutionalized animal abuse, espcially “factory farming,” the farming industry was lobbying for the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, which, she … Continue reading
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Update From NARAL Pro-Choice America
Molly W. Jackson of NARAL Pro-Choice America writes: I just wanted to pass along this report and share with you some of the misinformation that is floating around regarding, among other things, how choice played in the ’06 … Continue reading
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“Stop the Press Spree Against Working Moms”
Read Sheila Gibbons’ essay by that name here. Below is an excerpt: …Off-kilter news reporting on the reasons women leave jobs, laced with amateur psychology and traces of biological determinism, have been creating a false impression about women’s employment patterns, … Continue reading
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The “Plan B” Contraceptive Can Be Purchased Online at Drugstore.com
See this site. Via Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon. Educational information about Plan B is available here. The Barr Pharmaceuticals (makers of Plan B) site is here. Prevous posts about Plan B here and here.
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The Links Are On Me!
“Inclusion” at Dru Blood “Google, Rape and Search Data” at Feminish “University, Court and Slave” by Al Brophy at Blackprof “Feminists From Around the Bloc” at The F-Word “A Whole New World! The First Three Hours.” at Finslippy “The New … Continue reading
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Thin Air
When I was in college in the early 1980s, one of my work-study jobs was in the Labor-Management Documentation Center at Cornell University’s Martin P. Catherwood Library. I often summarized and filed union arbitration materials, and I remember reading a … Continue reading
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Ich bin kein Berliner: She is Not a Jelly Doughnut
For post title context, watch this. She has done a remarkable series of videos about mental health issues. Via The Trouble With Spikol, where Liz Spikol writes: “I admire this woman for trying to talk about her experience, and for … Continue reading
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“Women still account for only 17 percent of law firm partners, 20 percent of federal judges and 14 percent of Fortune 500 general counsels. And, at the current rate, the number of women partners won’t reach parity with the number of male partners until 2088.”
That’s a quote from this Harvard Law School Alumni Bulletin entitled: “Women are still second-class citizens in the legal profession. What can be done about it?”
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This is what happens when library volunteers do drugs.
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The Legal Profession Blog Asks: “Are the Low Numbers of Female Supreme Court Law Clerks a Statistical Blip?”
See full post by Alan Childress here. Below is a short excerpt: David Kaye (Ariz. State, Law) and Joseph Gastwirth (GW, Arts & Sci. [Stats Dept.]) have just posted on SSRN Law & Soc’y: Legal Prof., their new article, “Where … Continue reading
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“Progressives Set To Be Largest Democratic Congressional Caucus”
From the Feminist Daily News Wire: US Representatives Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), the co-chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), have announced that they expect at least seven new members of Congress to join the CPC and … Continue reading
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