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Depressed.
The day before yesterday a close family member died after a very short and completely unexpected health downturn. I wrote a long post about him, but I contemporaneously received a painful reminder about the perils of making personal revelations in … Continue reading
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“Violence against women is ‘severe and pervasive’ worldwide with one in three women subjected to intimate partner abuse during her lifetime, according to a UN report.”
The U.N. recently completed an “In-depth study of all forms of violence against women.” This News24 article reports: Violence against women is “severe and pervasive” around the world, with at least one in three women subjected to intimate partner abuse … Continue reading
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The San Francisco Chronicle’s Series on Sex Trafficking
Part one Part two Part three Part four How the paper reported the series And…finding help: Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, Global Fund for Women, The Protection Project, Human Rights Watch Campaign Against the Trafficking of Women and Girls, Global … Continue reading
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An Average of 3:1. “At The New Yorker, the ratio was four to one. At Harper’s, it was almost seven to one.”
At WomenTK.com, Ruth Konigsberg noted: I started this website in the fall of 2005 because I’d been noticing a lack of female voices in what are supposed to be general-interest (and therefore gender-neutral) magazines. I wanted to find out if … Continue reading
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U.S. Military: “a system where there’s no intervention or punishment for sexual assault”
Commentary by Marie Tessier, via the Women’s Media Center: … Until late last week, Brakey was the only woman to see her sexual assault allegations proceed to a court-martial from widely reported Air Force Academy revelations in 2003, though more … Continue reading
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“Hidden victims of a brutal conflict: Iraq’s women”
The Observer (via the U.K. Guardian Unlimited) reported yesterday: …Iraqis do not like to talk about it much, but there is an understanding of what is going on these days. If a young woman is abducted and murdered without a … Continue reading
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A Primer To Gender?
Over at Crooked Timber, Ingrid Robeyns asks: Suppose you do research on gender issues in the social sciences (or practical/political/moral philosophy). It is quite likely that from time to time, or perhaps even often, you meet other scholars who are … Continue reading
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Anna Politkovskaya Has Been Murdered
According to this NYT story: Anna Politkovskaya, the veteran Russian journalist and author who made her name as a searing critic of the Kremlin and its policies in Chechnya, was found dead on Saturday in her apartment building, shot in … Continue reading
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Meow?
Below is a post copied in its entirety (all three words of it) from Eschaton. Make a quick guess about the gender of the person Atrios accuses of jealousy, then see if you are correct by clicking on the … Continue reading
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Part Two in the San Francisco Chronicle’s Series on Sex Trafficking: “A Youthful Mistake”
Read it here. Below is an excerpt: The man was athletic, muscular. After showering, he led her to the bed and stretched out on his stomach. You Mi began massaging his shoulders. Suddenly, he jumped off the bed, declared he … Continue reading
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Law Blogs
Henry Farrell at Crooked Timber put together a wiki on academic blogs. The list of Law Blogs is here, and Feminist Law Professors made it into the wiki listing. Via Bitch, Ph.D.
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Pictures and Words
Above is a photo that accompanies a NYT story entitled: “Thailand Tourists: ‘Coup? What Coup?’” The thesis of the article is that tourism is still thriving in Thailand, but the unsurprising subtext is that Thai tourists are sort of clueless … Continue reading
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The Yale Women’s Center’s “Gender, Career and Family” Report
Per this site: In September 20th, 2005, the New York Times ran a front-page article (“Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood,”) alleging that undergraduate women at elite colleges such as Yale plan to choose motherhood over … Continue reading
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The San Francisco Chronicle is publishing a series of investigative reports about sex trafficking
Part One is here. Below is an excerpt: Many of San Francisco’s Asian massage parlors — long an established part of the city’s sexually permissive culture — have degenerated into something much more sinister: international sex slave shops. Once limited … Continue reading
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Thanks For Not Sending Me Photos of Your Breasts!
While this blog got more porn spam than usual thanks to the even more prodigious than usual deployment of the word “boobies” (and the blog also seems to have won a number of international lotteries it didn’t even enter), the … Continue reading
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“Stand Against Women Stoned to Death You Apathetic Monsters”
Did that post title get your attention? It got mine too. The original post it graces is here. Blogger Ali Eteraz writes: “This is a call for action to do our small part in coming to the assistance of the … Continue reading
Robin Fretwell Wilson, “Don’t Let Divorce Off the Hook”
Congratulations to Robin Fretwell Wilson on her Op-Ed in the NYT that appeared October 1st! Here is an excerpt: NEW YORK is one of the few states without unilateral no-fault divorce, which means that New York couples can get a … Continue reading
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“Tequila Mockingbird”
That’s the title of Dahlia Lithwick’s recent Slate coumn, in which she says: The first case of the term is a pair of consolidated immigration cases:Lopez v. Gonzales, (out of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals) and Toledo-Flores v. United … Continue reading
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Forced Sterilizations in SC
A local politician, Charleston SC City Councilor Larry Shirley, recently made this public pronouncement, which he later characterized as “starting a dialogue about reducing crime”: “We pick up stray animals and spay them. These mothers need to be spayed if … Continue reading
The Anti-Boobie-Thon Continues…
For context, go here, here or here. To make your own sign, go here. To read about the Anti-Boobie-thon, go here. –Ann Bartow
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Check Out The Cocky Law Blawg!
The Cocky Law Blawg features “Legal Research Tips & Musings from the Coleman Karesh Law Library,” and is based at the University of South Carolina School of Law, so you just know it’s cool!
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U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL 1945-2006: 3 European men, 2 African men, 1 Latin American man, 1 Asian man, 0 Women
U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL 1945-2006: 3 European men, 2 African men, 1 Latin American man, 1 Asian man, 0 Women as pointed out by Equality Now, which launched a campaign last year to support women candidates for the position of United … Continue reading
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The Domestic Violence Toll: 27 Women and 5 Men in South Carolina Last Year
This is a photo of the “Silent Witness Roll Call” held on the SC Statehouse grounds today. Today also brought the news that a local women was murdered in Virginia, apparently by a man who had killed several other people … Continue reading
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“Mother Superior”
Over at Jurisdynamics, Jim Chen has a post entitled “Mother Superior” that is part of his series on “Genesis for the rest of us.” Here is an excerpt: The sexually hierarchical nature of Genesis’ second creation story has long-term … Continue reading
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Sex Toys in Texas
Don’t dare call them dildos! And in related news… it was cert. denied in Acosta v. Texas, which asked the Court to consider “whether a Texas prohibition on the sale of sex toys is unconstituional on Due Process grounds, especially … Continue reading
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Upcoming SCOTUS Abortion Cases
The Kaiser Daily Women’s Health Policy Report on Abortion-Related Cases in the New Supreme Court Term: The docket for the U.S. Supreme Court term beginning Monday is scheduled to include a Department of Justice appeal to uphold a federal law … Continue reading
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“It seems as though he wanted to attack young, female victims”
So today in the South Carolina news, a man killed his wife and her four children while they slept, and in the national news we have this story: A lone gunman walked into a one-room schoolhouse in a largely Amish … Continue reading
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Judicial Bypass Resources
This post is copied from the wonderful Reproductive Rights Blog in an effort to circulate it as widely as possible, but that blog deserves all the credit for collecting and initially publishing this information, which after a bit of spot … Continue reading
Tax Refunds Biased Against Women
In a story entitled “Tax refunds show bias tilted toward men” the Albany Times Union reports: …[NY] state has been mailing out $675 million in rebates through the STAR, or School Tax Relief program, since Sept. 18. But many checks … Continue reading
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“Aid: Can It Work?”
That is the title of this review essay by Nicholas Kristof, which primarily focuses on “The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good,” by William Easterly but … Continue reading
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Carnival Against Sexual Violence 8
Up at abyss2hope. As usual Marcella Chester did a lot of hard work on this, and it is well worth checking out.
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The Anti-Boobie-Thon
Read the post entitled “I Got Yer Boobython Right Here” at I Blame the Patriarchy so all this makes sense. Like Twisty Faster, if no one sends me photos of their breasts between now and midnight Tuesday, I’ll donate some … Continue reading
The Rutgers Law Review and Rutgers School of Law-Newark present: SAME-SEX COUPLES AND “THE EXCLUSIVE COMMITMENT” Untangling the Issues and Consequences
Friday, November 10, 2006 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Rutgers School of Law-Newark Center for Law and Justice 123 Washington Street Newark, New Jersey Morning: Process and Consequences of Same-Sex Unions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This panel will discuss the legal and economic … Continue reading
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“Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy”
From the publisher’s website: In Pink Ribbons, Inc., Samantha King traces how breast cancer has been transformed from a stigmatized disease and individual tragedy to a market-driven industry of survivorship. In an unprecedented outpouring of philanthropy, corporations turn their formidable … Continue reading
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Not Funny, Redux
The Happy Feminist, a practicing attorney, posted a story about a work-related experience she had that involved a “joke” that few feminists would find amusing. Below is an excerpt: Back in 1999, when I was a 27 year old prosecutor, … Continue reading
Call for Papers: “Happiness and the Meaning of Life”
When I saw this CFP at the Legal Theory Blog I suspected it might be satire, but then I noticed the related conference was being organized by the Philosophy Department at the University of Birmingham, rather than a law school. … Continue reading
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Lt. Emily J.T. Perez
LT. EMILY J. T. PEREZ, 23, was a West Point graduate, and a platoon leader in the Army’s 204th Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, from Fort Hood, Texas. On September 12, 2006 she was killed in Kifl, Iraq, … Continue reading
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Speaking Up
Though it is somewhat limited in scope, empirical research on the differences in in-class participation rates between female and male law students (both “observed” and self-reported) consistently suggests that males volunteer and speak more than females do. (See e.g. this … Continue reading
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Sexism and Alcohol
Alex Witchel writes in a NYT article entitled “Strong Drink Is Not for Men Alone:” …A few weeks ago I settled down at the bar at Lombardi’s for the inevitable table wait for one of those sublime pizzas and ordered … Continue reading
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Another Post About Pornography
The first chapter of David Foster Wallace’s recent book, Consider the Lobster, is about the adult film industry circa 1997, and within it Wallace observes: The thing to recognize is that the adult industry’s new respectability creates a paradox. The … Continue reading
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“Turning Back the Clock on Rape”
Below is an editorial that appeared in the NYT on 9/23/06, with some links added: In recent decades, women’s advocates and human rights activists have made huge progress on the issues of rape and sexual assault : in the United … Continue reading
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“Poison Ivy”
The Economist has published a review of Daniel Golden’s book,”The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges:and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates.”The Economist review has as its subtitle: “Not so much palaces of … Continue reading
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Jessica Price, “Imagining the Law-Trained Reader: The Faulty Description of the Audience in Legal Writing Textbooks”
Here is the abstract for Jessica Price’s new article: In law schools today, first-year legal writing courses play a crucial role in helping students learn to communicate about the law. Many legal writing teachers approach legal writing education in a … Continue reading
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Study Finds Women and Minorities Hurt by Media Consolidation
From the Feminist Weekly News: Media consolidation cuts out women and minority television broadcast stations owners, according to a report released on Wednesday by Free Press, a nonpartisan media reform organization. The report, Out of the Picture: Minority & Female … Continue reading
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“Chavez’s Embrace of Iran Leader Insults Women”
Jennifer Fasulo has written an op-ed that begins as follows: Hugo Chavez, one of the key figures in the left populist movements spreading throughout Latin America, has publicly lauded and embraced Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Moments like this show just … Continue reading
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“Study finds gender patent gap in life sciences”
According to this article: Male academic scientists in life sciences secure patents at more than twice the rate of their female colleagues, according to a new study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and researchers at Haas School of Business, … Continue reading
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Links
“Should you stay with a man who buys sex?” at Feministing. “Custody and Control: Conditions of Confinement in New York’s Juvenile Prisons for Girls” at Human Rights Watch (via Feministing). “Safia Ama Jan, RIP” at Echidne of the Snakes. “John … Continue reading
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Do The Four Part Trick!
See this cartoon character, who is vaguely reminiscent of the Hamburger Helper factotum? It’s “Henry The Hand.” Click here to hear his retro “Four Part Trick” theme song! Try not to giggle when the narrator says “Number two,” because that … Continue reading
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Unregulated “Courts”
Today the NYT is featuring an article entitled “In Tiny Courts of New York, Abuses of Law and Power.” Here are the opening paragraphs: Some of the courtrooms are not even courtrooms: tiny offices or basement rooms without a judge’s … Continue reading
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