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This Is Very Difficult To Read And Absorb

Yahoo News reports: Sudanese women to be stoned for adultery: Amnesty Two Sudanese women have been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery after a trial in which they had no lawyer and which used Arabic, not their first language, … Continue reading

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AALS Workshop on Reproductive Medicine and Law, June 20-22, 2007, Vancouver BC

From the official announcement: The Association of American Law Schools and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine are jointly sponsoring a workshop on Reproductive Medicine and the Law. After more than two decades, assisted reproductive technologies coupled with increasingly sophisticated … Continue reading

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“There is widespread poverty. We have to sell off our children to survive. We are not proud of it, but we have to do it.”

Those are the final sentences of this article, entitled “Starving Afghans sell girls of eight as brides.” Below is an excerpt: Azizgul is 10 years old, from the village of Houscha in western Afghanistan. This year the wheat crop failed … 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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“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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“Planet of the Arabs”

It’s a video montage illustrating Hollywood’s relentless dehumanization and vilification of Arabs and Muslims. You can view it here or here. Powerful and disturbing. Update: Patrick S. O’Donnell writes (see “comments” for the full text of his observations) : I … 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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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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Legal and Socio-Legal Feminist Scholars From Around the World Confront the Nation State

Having just returned from several weeks visiting at the AHRC Research Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality, I offered to guest blog about the recently hosted conference ‘Up Against the Nation-States of Feminist Legal Theory’. The conference was held from … Continue reading

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“Women Vote and Run in Kuwaiti Poll for First Time”

According to this NYT article: Kuwaitis voted for a new parliament on Thursday with women running and casting ballots for the first time in a national poll in the Gulf Arab state. “I don’t know how to describe my feelings, … Continue reading

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Women Suicide Bombers

Nathalie Bennett of Philobiblon posted a review of a book called “Female Suicide Bombers” by Rosemarie Skaine, at Blogcritics. Below is an excerpt: …An attack now has to have some special feature : like the bomb being in the attacker’s … Continue reading

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“Saudi women unveil opinions online”

According to the Christian Science Monitor: In this country where women are forced to completely cover themselves in public, are barred from driving, and need permission to travel abroad, it’s small wonder many are embracing the freedom of anonymity on … Continue reading

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Sunder Named Carnegie Scholar

Congratulations to Feminist Law Prof Madhavi Sunder of University of California, Davis, who was recently named as a Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. According to the Carnegie Corporation’s press release, each of the twenty Carnegie Scholars … Continue reading

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