Author Archives: Ann Bartow

Still Relevant: “Who’s Behind the Attack on Liberal Professors?”

Below are excerpts from an article entited “Who’s Behind the Attack on Liberal Professors,” posted three years ago by George Mason U’s History News Network: … In 1971 the National Chamber of Commerce circulated a memo by future Supreme Court … Continue reading →

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Classroom Justice

Someone set up a blog, “Classroom Justice,” to solicit comments about law profs at the University of North Carolina. The stated purpose of the blog is as follows: This blog is dedicated to highlighting any unethihcal personal biases shown by … Continue reading →

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On Junior Faculty Pre-Tenure Review

By Lucyrain: “Whoever decided on the name and resultant acronym of the Tenure and Promotion System (TAPS) has absolutely no sympathy for tenure-track faculty–or, has an evil sense of humor.”

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Scrapbooking and Feminism

The Clutter Museum blog hosts an interesting post about scrapbooking. Below is an excerpt: “…when we scrapbook, we’re not just “telling stories” as a journalist, or even a photojournalist, might. Instead, we’re imposing narratives, and therefore fairly explicit meanings, onto … Continue reading →

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The Long Story Part 3: “Humiliation”

“Strength comes from refusing to be shamed.” Blogger “Manxome” at”Climacteric Clambake”has written very powerfully about her experiences with sexual abuse, and just posted Part 3: “Humiliation.” The introduction to this “Long Story” series is here. Part 1: “Petrification” is here. … Continue reading →

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“Makeup and Women at Work”

This piece has three authors: Devon Carbado, Mitu Gulati, and Gowri Ramachandran. Here is the abstract: “This is a story about gender, makeup and the law. Darlene Jespersen, a bartender, was fired from her job of fifteen years at Harrah’s … Continue reading →

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Margaret L. Satterthwaite: “Crossing Borders, Claiming Rights: Using Human Rights Law to Empower Women Migrant Workers”

This article was published almost a year ago, but seems timely and important now. Here is the abstract: “Focusing on the exploitation of migrant domestic workers, this article develops and then uses the methodology of applied international intersectionality to analyze … Continue reading →

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Good Things to Read

“The Death of Viola Liuzzo, March 25, 1965,” at Bats Left, Throws Right. “I am a person of color, for what it’s worth,” at Blackademic. “Why Women Lawyers Quit Their Jobs and Feminism is still Necessary,” at Doing Justice. Overview … Continue reading →

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Stupid Girls, Stupid Profs?

During the panel discussion on Feminism and Women Under 40 held at Pace Law School on March 21, 2006, one of the speakers touted the new Pink video, “Stupid Girls,” as an example of how feminists can harness the media … Continue reading →

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Michael Selmi and Naomi Kahn: “Women in the Workplace: Which Women, Which Agenda?”

Abstract: “Much of the work family literature that has blossomed over the last decade has focused on professional women and has emphasized policy changes that would be of less utility to many other working women and men. In this symposium … Continue reading →

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Why This Blog Will Never Be “Popular”: Patriarchy only likes to read about itself.

While I appreciate all the helpful advice I’ve received about how to increase blog traffic and visibility, I’m probably not going to take much of it. To paraphrase Twisty of I Blame the Patriarchy (commenting here), if this site was … Continue reading →

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Parody

The original: The parody: The story here, more details available via GreeneSpace.

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Why CEOs Get Paid More Than Law Profs…

Via Financial Rounds.

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The Dixie Chicks are “Not Ready To Make Nice”

You can listen to their new song here. A little twangy for my tastes but I like the sentiment: “…I made my bed and I sleep like a baby With no regrets and I don’t mind sayin’ It’s a sad … Continue reading →

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“The Meritocracy Myth”

Read an interview with Lani Guinier about her forthcoming book, “Meritocracy Inc.: How Wealth Became Merit, Class Became Race, and College Education Became a Gift from the Poor to the Rich,” which will be published in 2007. Here is an … Continue reading →

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“The Happy Feminist” on Why So Few Women Reach The Top Of Big Law Firms

Three part series! 1. Mentoring and Neworking 2. Prejudices and Other Factors 3. Billable Hours

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”Assuming that both spouses are competent, neither one is a master possessing the power to override the other’s constitutional right to deny entry to their castle”

”In today’s world the only advice that an officer could properly give should make it clear that each of the partners has a constitutional right that he or she may independently assert or waive. Assuming that both spouses are competent, … Continue reading →

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Today is the 95th Anniversary of the Triangle Waist Company Factory Fire

Read about it here, at a site maintained by the Catherwood Library, where I spent a good portion of my undergraduate years studying, doing my reserve reading, talking to my friends (and getting shushed for it, and deservedly so) and … Continue reading →

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“The Only One”

Below is an excerpt of a post entitled “The Only One” at My So Called (ABD) Life: I wrote some time ago about the concerns I had about becoming a professor as a person of color and I still carry … Continue reading →

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“Ask Bill” by Stephanie McMillan

From here, where there is a clearer version. Via Feministing. Update: You can buy a print of this cartoon here.

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“The Old Negro Space Program”

A very funny bit of satire, via Professor Kim’s News Notes.

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Hippocratic Oaf

From Lingual Tremors: 6:30 a.m. in the hotel elevator after a very rough night’s sleep. A guy gets in, sipping his coffee. I’m sipping my coffee, laptop in the other hand. “What are you?” He asks. “A teacher. What are … Continue reading →

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Piigpen has Become Her Mother

And you’ll enjoy her post about why this is a good thing: “For as long as I can remember, my mother has been a gregarious customer. She can tell you where the fast food drive-through cashier gets her hair done, … Continue reading →

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Feminism, Body Issues, and Sisterhood

This post at “Morphing Into Mama” triggered this post at I Blame the Patriarchy, which inspired a lot of blogosphere conversation. Here is an excerpt: “…according to this astonishing post, our Morphing Mama believes that if you gain a few … Continue reading →

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Women Candidates as “Mommies” and “Cleaners”?

The title of this NYT article had promise, “Women Wage Key Campaigns for Democrats” but it was downhill from the very first sentence: “If the Democrats have their way, the 2006 Congressional elections will be the revenge of the mommy … Continue reading →

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Well This Is Icky

This morning someone arrived at this blog via a Google search for “college girls fucking professors.” It was the post about “Google Searches and Germain Greer Porn” (in conjuction with Google’s somewhat-imperfect-shall-we-say algorithms) that apparently caused this. “I Blame the … Continue reading →

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Rethinking Welfare: A panel discussion with Mary Childers, Dana-Ain Davis and Annelise Orleck on March 29th in NYC

Wednesday, 29 March, 7:00 PM Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall “In Welfare Brat, her stunning memoir of growing up in the United States’ welfare system, Mary Childers describes navigating the treacherous terrain of American poverty, out of the Bronx … Continue reading →

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Congratulations to Lydia Loren! First Woman to Hold Deanship at Lewis & Clark School of Law

Lydia will become “Interim Dean” on July 1st, and everyone who knows Lydia knows how lucky Lewis & Clark is to have her.

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“The Battle To Ban Birth Control”

Salon recently published “The Battle to ban Birth Control” by Priya Jain, which is informative in and of itself, and also contains some useful links. Below is a short excerpt, but you can read the whole thing here: “…the anti-birth-control … Continue reading →

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A Few Comments About “Comments”

This blog has generated a fair amount of e-mail, but not too many on-site comments. Yesterday a Feminist Law Prof explained that this might be due to technical difficulties, hence this post. Commenting at this blog requires that you do … Continue reading →

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Scott Moss, “Against ‘Academic Deference’: How Recent Developments in Employment Discrimination Law Undercut an Already Dubious Doctrine”

Brand new! Here’s the abstract – it’s long and the fact that the first two words of the final paragraph are “In short…” cracked me up, but it looks like a very interesting piece: “When the defendant in an employment … Continue reading →

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How to Get Reported To David Horowitz by “Students for Academic Freedom”

Aspazia at Mad, Melancholic Feminista reviewed the “Students for Academic Freedom” Manual and has some observations about it here. She has also written up a list of instructions you can follow to increase your chances of getting reported! It isn’t … Continue reading →

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Cecilia Fire Thunder on Abortion as a Question of Sovereignty

From Indianz.com, via I Blame The Patriarchy: “When Governor Mike Rounds signed HB 1215 into law it effectively banned all abortions in the state with the exception that it did allow saving the mother’s life. There were, however, no exceptions … Continue reading →

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Fabulous Feminist Legal Theory Visiting Opportunity

The Feminism and Legal Theory Project is looking for someone who has a sabbatical or semester leave (or otherwise does not need a salary) who may be interested in coming to Emory and spending the Spring 2007 semester taking over … Continue reading →

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Excerpt From A Note From A Friend Who Is Visiting Turkey

“Just took a tour of the Sultan’s hareem. It is revisionist history at its best… The tour guides showed us the the quarters of the black eunuchs. They declined to explain why the eunuchs had to be BLACK. Two American … Continue reading →

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Law Prof Blogging and Commercial Advertising

Dan Solove has once again updated his law professor blogger census, see this and this. He noted: My latest tally is 235 bloggers, with 47 new bloggers and 14 bloggers who departed the blogosphere since my last census in November … Continue reading →

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UGA Law Conference: “Working in the Public Interest: Challenging Poverty Through Law” on April 7 & 8

The University of Georgia School of Law, the Student Bar Association, and the American Constitution Society are pleased to present: “Working in the Public Interest: Challenging Poverty Through Law” This first annual conference will take place on April 7-8 in … Continue reading →

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“Why I’m Still Married: Women Write Their Hearts Out on Love, Loss, Sex, and Who Does the Dishes”

“Why I’m Still Married: Women Write Their Hearts Out on Love, Loss, Sex, and Who Does the Dishes,” edited by Karen Propp and Jean Trounstine. From the Amazon.com page: “Whether they’re on their first marriage or their fourth, each of … Continue reading →

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Middle School v. The Bush Presidency

From McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: “Parallels Between My Living Through Two Years of Middle School and the Two Terms of the Bush Presidency” BY TEDDY WAYNE – – – – The radical changes going on around me make me uncomfortable. I … Continue reading →

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Carnival of the Feminists – Number Eleven!

All kinds of great links and commentary here, at Angry for a Reason!

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Verna L. Williams, “Private Choices, Public Consequences: Examining Public Education Reform Through a Feminist Lens”

The abstract: “Using the Supreme Court’s decision in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris as a focal point, this article examines the meaning of private choice in public education reform. In Zelman, the Court addressed the validity of the Cleveland city schools’ voucher … Continue reading →

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Phyllis Goldfarb, “A Theory-Practice Spiral: The Ethics of Feminism and Clinical Education”

Abstract: “Should law school classes cultivate professional skills or should they advance a broad intellectual agenda? This Article examines the relationship between theory and practice from the standpoint of two movements within law’s academy: clinical education and feminist jurisprudence. Although … Continue reading →

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Which Left, Exactly?

From “This Is Broken.”

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The Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship Fund

“Octavia E. Butler (1947 – 2006) was a brilliant African American writer who broke barriers with her courageous and profoundly truthful books and stories. Winner of many awards including a MacArthur Fellowship, and speculative fiction’s highest honors, the Hugo and … Continue reading →

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Feminist Law Profs! Post Conference Announcements Here!

I don’t really get the point of all the mailings from other law schools, they generally go right into my recycling bin, but I receive quite a few, so someone somewhere thinks they are accomplishing something somehow. But are they? … Continue reading →

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Call For Submissions: An Anthology

“There is a new ilk of academics and scholars. We are queer, trans, of color and culture; from the working-class; we are deaf; tattooed and pierced up; we teach from wheelchairs or wield canes; we don’t change our registers, we … Continue reading →

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Rather Creative Uses of Latex Accoutrements

Via Mad, Melancholic Feminsta. From this site. From here. From this link. From here. The photos came from various AIDS Awareness functions.

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Echidne of the Snakes on “Blogging Feminism”

The wonderful Echidne writes: “…[F]eminism is more than just addressing topics of sexual or gender equality. It’s a part of a larger outlook on the world, a way of seeing it and the creatures in it from an angle of … Continue reading →

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Garance Franke-Ruta Asks: “Is The New York Times Still Pro-Choice? And Where are the Women?”

At The American Prospect she writes: …”The past two years have seen one of the most contentious and closely watched presidential contests in 40 years, the retirement of the first female Supreme Court justice, the appointment of two new justices, … Continue reading →

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Go Directly to Guantanamo! Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200

The Patriot Act Game: “The object of the game is not to amass the most money or real estate, but to be the last player to retain civil liberties.”

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