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“Gibson’s alleged sexist comments go practically unnoticed”
When Mel Gibson was arrested recently on suspicion of DUI, he reportedly went on an anti-Semitic tirade. At the Mother Jones blog, Diane E. Dees writes: …Gibson is alleged to have cursed and carried on … for some time. What … Continue reading
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Twentieth Carnival of the Feminists!
Here, at Super Babymama.
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A “Rape of Nanking” Documentary
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang, is being made into a documentary. WaPo news report here. Jenn at Reappropriate expresses some concerns here.
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Bill Moyers Interview With Margaret Atwood
Transcript here. Via IndianWriting.
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Iris Marion Young
Larry Solum has a nice post up about the passing yesterday of Iris Marion Young at the Legal Theory Blog. She was very highly regarded for her work in political philosophy and feminist theory. Update: More information from the U … Continue reading
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Canada’s gay community divided over trademarking of the word ‘Pride’.
Full story here, excerpt below: Canada’s gay and lesbian organizations want to trademark the word Pride, leading to a fight that is taking on Olympic proportions among gay activists. Vancouver transsexual Jamie Lee Hamilton was told earlier this summer she … Continue reading
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The Importance of Standing Up For Other Women, Expletives and All
It’s Absinthe’s story, click here to read it at her blog.
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Women Executives and Female Law Firm Partners: Research Finds A Link!
Via The Conglomerate: The American Sociological Review published a paper last August entitled “Interorganizational Determinants of Promotion: Client Leadership and the Attainment of Women Attorneys,” (link is to a draft, since the ASR version is pay-per-view) by Christine Beckman and … Continue reading
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Prurient Puritanism?
Or a gigantic goof? At this link is what YouTube frames as a “1965 Anti-Pornography Propaganda film” entitled “Perversion for Profit.” Produced by “Citizens For Decent Literature, Inc.” it is narrated by “George Putnam, outstanding new reporter.” It’s so hammy … Continue reading
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Keeping Feminist Books in Circulation
One of the interesting paradoxes of copyright law is that although copyright protections are supposed to incentivize the creation and distribution of “useful” works, when copyright owners decide to stop publishing a work, no one else can keep the book … Continue reading
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Too Many Women Are Bad News?
Here are some points extracted this WaPo article about television news shows, taken out of sequence from the original article. 1. There are few jobs in front of the camera of television news shows, and most of those jobs are … Continue reading
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CFP: “An Uncomfortable Conversation on Sociobiology, Evolutionary Psychology, and Feminist Legal Theory”
From the CFP: This is the first of a planned series of workshops that will examine the implications of the increasing use of theories of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology to explain persistent inequalities between men and women. The primary aim … Continue reading
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Cat Blogging One’s Way To Tenure and Promotion?
I’m not a regular Instapundit reader, but I’ve been to that site enough to have a general sense of the typical posts, and I found this one rather flabbergasting: SOME THOUGHTS ON ACADEMIC BLOGGING from me and from some other … Continue reading
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Lily Burana, “Strip City”
Strip City (a stripper’s farewell journey across America ) by Lily Burana was published in 2001. Here is a partial description from the Powell’s page: Lily Burana had been working as a journalist for five years when, on a cross-country … Continue reading
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This News Story Is Difficult To Read.
Innocent man haunted by decades in prison Wilton Dedge hits the brakes every time he sees a patrol car, even if he’s driving under the speed limit. He keeps boxes of receipts from gas stations, stores and fast-food places — … Continue reading
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Recommended Blog: The Dees Diversion
Diane at The Dees Diversion (previously known as DED Space) just celebrated the fourth anniversary of her blog! Here is an excerpt from a post she wrote on that topic: Today marks four years that The Dees Diversion has been … Continue reading
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Foxy Felons Redux
A while back I posted this about the “Foxy Felons” dispute. This gist is that a website operated by Court TV called “The Smoking Gun” posted pictures of attractive women culled from the Florida Department of Corrections website, which gave … Continue reading
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“Death of a Teenager”
Atefah Sahaaleh: executed at 16 for a “crime against chastity” Last year producer Monica Garnsey travelled undercover to Iran to investigate the execution of teenager Atefah Sahaaleh. An account of her journey is here, in The Guardian. Below is an … Continue reading
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Randomish Links.
Click here. And here. And here. And here. And here. And here, too.
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“The Shape of a Mother”
Real photos of real women before, during and after pregnancy. Via Dr. Bitch.
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MS Office Upgrade, With Important New Features
More here. Cuss words ahoy. Via Pen-Elayne.
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No Mean Feet
“CBS News” reports: Foot Cosmetic Surgery Catching On Cosmetic surgery for feet is gaining a foothold among women who want to look better in shoes. But, reports Susan McGinnis in part two of The Early Show’s series on foot care, … Continue reading
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Germaine Greer Has Written A Provocative Op-Ed About Teen Pregnancy
It is entitled “Bastardy: for thousands of young girls it will always be a legitimate choice.” Excerpt below: About the only strategy available to any quango that aims to reduce teenage pregnancy is to increase sex and relationship education in … Continue reading
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Shirin Ebadi: “Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope”
Here is an excerpt from the first chapter: When my mother was growing up, she dreamed of attending medical school and becoming a doctor. But before the day of the khastegari, the family roundly dismissed this possibility, on grounds that … Continue reading
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The Senate passed legislation that would make it a federal crime to help an under-age girl escape parental notification laws by crossing state lines to obtain an abortion.
Per the NYT: The bill was approved on a 65-to-34 vote, with 14 Democrats joining 51 Republicans in favor. A similar measure passed the House last year, and President Bush said he would sign the legislation if the two chambers … Continue reading
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Law Review Page Limits: Know When To Say When!
Some of the most cited law journals express a preference for pithiness here. Via Larry Solum at the spiffily redesigned Legal Theory Blog.
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AALS Annual Meeting Program Notice: THE CHANGED ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF LAW SCHOOLS AND ITS IMPACT ON FACULTY
The topic is of crucial importance to law profs. The facilitators were chosen to represent diverse teaching constituencies in brief opening statements and over half the program will be an open discussion among all the participants (facilitators and audience). THE … Continue reading
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“Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide” By Linda Babcock and Sarah Laschever
From the book’s website: When Linda Babcock asked why so many male graduate students were teaching their own courses and most female students were assigned as assistants, her dean said: “More men ask. The women just don’t ask.” It turns … Continue reading
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Ms. Magazine: “Crude Awakening: Oil Is A Feminist Issue”
Details about the Summer 2006 issue here.
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THE SCIENCE OF GENDER AND SCIENCE
Over a year ago, Harvard University’s Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative (MBB) held a debate on sex differences between men and women and how they may relate to the careers of women in science. From the debate webpage: …the debate, “The Science of … Continue reading
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Why Can’t Maureen Dowd Quit With The Sexism?
Yeesh. I mostly agree with her recent NYT column (I’ll post it below in full text for those who haven’t seen it), but why, why, why does she have to refer to Condi Rice as a “tough, by-any-means-necessary superbabe”? And … Continue reading
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A Shrew
No word on whether it has been tamed. Update: Far more adorable shrew pix here.
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Carnival of Feminists XIX
Here, at Figure: Demystifying the Feminist Mystique.
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Skirting Politics
Last June (June 2005), I was in Israel at a time when there was no fighting and a strange little peace. I was wondering around the streets of Tel Aviv with a friend, generally enjoying myself, and I saw this … Continue reading
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Three Part Blog Homage (Blogmage?) To Flea
1. This is a link to her humorless feminist side. 2. This link demonstrates that she is hilarious, though not altogether worksafe. 3. Here she does a really cool book review of “Manstealing for Fat Girls.”
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Belle Lettre: “Debating The Feminine Universal”
Belle Lettre has produced a long, detailed post about gender and language at Law and Letters. Due to technical problems, for now her blog is the best place to read it, plus clicking this link provides a great opportunity … Continue reading
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No Protection From Abuse Orders for Illegal Aliens?
LA Times article entitled LA judge tells illegal immigrant to leave court or be deported is indented, with commentary interspersed: Superior Court officials were reviewing a hearing in which a judge told an illegal immigrant seeking a restraining order against … Continue reading
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Work/Life Balance
That’s the topic of this op-ed in The Oregonian, entitled “Power moms not only ones needing help,” which quotes Feminist Law Prof Naomi Cahn: Surely the nation has reached its quota on books and articles about highly educated, professional women … Continue reading
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If You Teach Family Law and Haven’t Seen It…
You’ll probably want a copy of this NYT Magazine article. Below is a short excerpt: …“To whom it may concern,”she typed,”I am writing to you to appeal for the return of my children.”Marie (I am using her middle name, as … Continue reading
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Martha Nussbaum Reviews “Are Women Human?” by Catharine MacKinnon
Her review is available at The Nation. Below is an excerpt: MacKinnon’s central theme, repeatedly and convincingly mined, is the hypocrisy of the international system when it faces up to some crimes against humanity but fails to confront similar harms … Continue reading
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No! The Rape Documentary
No! The Rape Documentary is described as a “groundbreaking feature-length documentary that unveils the reality of rape, other forms of sexual violence, and healing in African-American communities.” An interview with Aishah Shahidah Simmons, the producer, writer, and director, is available … Continue reading
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Amananta: “Marginalized Feminist Bloggers Oppressing Billion-Dollar International Industry, News at 11”
Really good response to the Bussel article by Amananta at Screaming Into the Void. Below is an excerpt: …little did we know, oh radical feminist bloggers – who probably make up something like 0.5% of the entire blogosphere, if that … Continue reading
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Summer Research Project
1. Read this. 2. Now read this. 3. And read this. 4. Finally, read this. 5. Do a feminist analysis of the above. Neatness counts. Show all work!
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The AFL-CIO is Conducting a Survey of Working Women
Take it here!
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Federally Funded Pregnancy Resource Centers Mislead Teens about Abortion Risks
From this site: A new study released by Rep. Henry A. Waxman finds that federally funded pregnancy resource centers often mislead pregnant teens about the medical risks of abortion, telling investigators who posed as pregnant 17-year-olds that abortion leads to … Continue reading
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Belle Lettre, “The Political and Performative Aspects of Race and Gender”
Cross-posted at Law and Letters: Here’s an interesting article by Erin Aubry Kaplan at the LA Times on the political and performative aspects of “black hair” , worth quoting at length: In short, the debate about the best choices for … Continue reading
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Head…banging…desk.
Peru’s female traffic cops face backlash, by Carla Salazar When traffic cop Maria Luisa Calderon ordered a taxi driver to move on as he picked up a passenger in heavy traffic, his reaction bordered on homicidal: He turned on his … Continue reading
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CFP: The University of Detroit Mercy Law Review Symposium on Law and Religion seeks articles about women’s issues for its 2007 publication.
From the CFP: “The symposium edition, published annually, explores law and religion within a particular theme. The 2007 theme is women’s studies/issues. “We are looking for a range of papers, but examples of articles we would be interested in publishing … Continue reading
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What If They Had “A Culture War Around Sex,” But Nobody Came?
Rachel Kramer Bussel published an article in the Village Voice titled “Fucking and Feminism.” In it she says things like this: We’re in the middle of a culture war around sex, and it goes beyond left vs. right. Many of … Continue reading
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War and Rape
Ruth Rosen has published an important article called “A Wave of Sexual Terrorism In Iraq” at Alternet. Here is an excerpt: Like women everywhere, Iraqi women have always been vulnerable to rape. But since the American invasion of their country, … Continue reading
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