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Manliness, Part III: Paradox

Thanks to Bridget for calling our attention to this curious story involving female political candidates challenging the manliness of their male adversaries; the story also includes male candidates ascribing feminine vices to their female candidates.  Both phenomena are interesting, but … Continue reading

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Queen’s University Feminist Legal Studies: CFP – Women and Equality – Gender-Based Analysis, Law and Economic Rights

From Kathy Lahey at Queen’s University, this Call for Papers: QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY FEMINIST LEGAL STUDIES QUEEN’S Call for papers for workshop on — Women and Equality — Gender-based Analysis, Law, and Economic Rights Sex equality in the twenty-first century: Long … Continue reading

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CFP: Women and International Criminal Law

From the FLP mailbox, this CFP: Call for Papers: Women & International Criminal Law Special Issue of the International Criminal Law Review Dedicated to Judge Patricia M. Wald The International Criminal Law Review invites submissions for its 2010  special issue … Continue reading

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“Grossing Up” Domestic Partner Benefits

Inside Higher Ed is  reporting that Syracuse University has plans to be the first academic employer (and one of only a handful of employers more generally) to gross up its lesbian and gay employees’ pay to cover a portion of … Continue reading

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People = Men, a passing example.

Over at Alternet Vanessa Richmond asks: “Why Do People Want to Have Sex with the 9-Foot Tall Natives in ‘Avatar’?” But by “people” she clearly means men. Here is an excerpt: James Cameron’s comments in interviews suggest the reaction is … Continue reading

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10 Most Important Intellectual Moves in 21st Feminist Legal Theory (So Far)

What are the most important trends/questions/ideas/theoretical moves in feminist legal theory since the year 2000? That’s the question two friends and I discussed today as we were car-pooling to a conference.  Here is a back-of-the-envelope list that comes out of … Continue reading

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In Which the NYT Notices the Politics of Black Women’s Hair

It’s news at the NY Times this week, even if it’s not news to those who have been living these conversations for generations.  In “Black Hair: Still Tangled in Politics,” reporter Catherine Saint Louis frames the discussion this way: “For … Continue reading

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Should Job Creation Favor Men?

That’s the title of this op-ed in today’s San Francisco Chronicle, written by Feminist Law Profs Melissa Murray (Berkeley) and Darren Rosenblum (Pace). Here’s the text: The recent stimulus efforts have a prompted a sense of deja vu. In 1944, … Continue reading

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Obama’s Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues

President Obama appointed Melanne Verveer as Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues:   Melanne Verveer is Co-Founder, Chair and Co-CEO of Vital Voices Global Partnership, an international nonprofit that invests in emerging women leaders – pioneers of economic, political and social … Continue reading

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Presidential Authority and “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”

President has authority to change “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” now In her article Let the Small Changes Begin: President Obama, Executive Power, and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, Professor Jackie Gardina of Vermont Law School  writes: President Obama should not wait … Continue reading

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CFP: Women, Incarceration and Human Rights, February 27-28, Atlanta, GA

From the FLP mailbox, this notice of yet another great workshop being convened by Martha Fineman and the Feminism and Legal Theory Project at Emory Law School: From 1995 – 2006, the number of incarcerated women in the United States … Continue reading

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Sex, Testation and Undue Influence

In the basic Wills, Trusts & Estates course, students learn that transfers brought about by undue influence, duress and fraud are invalid.   The Restatement (Third) of Property: Wills and Other Donative Transfers § 8.3(b) defines undue influence this way: … Continue reading

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Women who participate in ordination ceremonies automatically excommunicate themselves from the Catholic Church

So reports this Boston.com article, which also notes: A group advocating for the ordination of women held a ceremony yesterday in a packed Protestant church at which it declared three women to be Catholic priests and a fourth woman to … Continue reading

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On Backlash

Katha Pollitt says backlash against feminism is “crackling up a storm”. Kira Cochrane says the same thing is happening in the UK. And Dodai at Jezebel writes: Here’s a fun exercise: Think of 5 celebrities you love, and 5 celebs … Continue reading

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Ever Have a Ninth Circuit Case Involving Sex or Gender Issues?

Or even one with a female litigant? And was one of the panel members Judge Alex Kozinski? Well, if so, this story must make you question whether you got a fair shake. As detailed in several news outlets (and apparently … Continue reading

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Maybe You Have Been Wondering What Linda Hirshman and Charlotte Allen Think Of Women Democratic Voters?

Thanks to the Washington Post, and a host of Supposedly Liberal Dood bloggers happily flogging these despicable Op-eds with smirking faux concern, now we know. First, Hirshman: Maria Shriver sure has great hair. Stepping up to the microphone at a … Continue reading

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Objections

(To those of you reading this on Feminist Law Profs, I’m cross-posting there from my own blog.   The links and internal references are to that blog.   So, for example, you can find “my last post” by scrolling down … Continue reading

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Mother/Father, Noun/Verb

There’s a comment posted on an earlier entry that raises an excellent point, one worthy of a bit of discussion. I’m concerned in this blog with parentage–with who is a parent. That means who is a mother and who is … Continue reading

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Remember Hoping That Toe Removal For More Tolerable High Heel Wearage Was An Urban Legend?

In her essay Sex and the Stepford Wife, Katha Pollitt asked: … if women are free to be whatever they want, why are they still so obsessed with fitting narrow and rigid definitions of beauty? Feminism was supposed to send … Continue reading

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Lack of Women in Computer Science Field

My son is home from his first trimester at the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University.   He’s in the Computer Science department and hopes to go straight for a PhD in that field.   At dinner the other … Continue reading

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The “French Maid” Halloween Costume for Girls

Halloween is almost upon us.   Costumes sell big-time and many kids love to go out bedecked in all manner of disguise.   What isn’t good, what is very offensive is putting”French Maid”outfits on prepubescent girls.   For whose enjoyment … Continue reading

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Eugene Volokh Defends Female-Free Federalist Society Events

Here. No wonder he has to pose all his questions about menstruation on his blog. –Ann Bartow Update: A telling exchange culled from the comments: David Bernstein wrote: Unlike most Fed Society events, the panels at the Bork event were … Continue reading

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Magic Date Ball

It’s an actual product: From the Manufacturer MAGIC 8 BALL DATE BALL This Magic 8 Ball has just the answers you need to advise you in dating matters! Ask any question at all and you’ll learn what you need to … Continue reading

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Eugene Volokh Is “Seeking Input from People Who Have Actually Menstruated”

Do I make this stuff up? No, I do not. Specifically, Eugene wants to know: … When you menstruate, do you feel that you’re part of the “in crowd”? If you chose to stop — not because of menopause, which … 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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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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Odd Interview of Gloria Steinem in the NYT

By Deborah Solomon, here. This is an excerpt: Q: It’s been a generation since you founded Ms. magazine and became the face of American feminism, so why, at this late and supposedly liberated date, do we need GreenStone Media, an … Continue reading

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“Career Women Bad Wives? Let’s Ask the Guys”

That’s the title of an “op-ed recap” of that Forbes.com column by Michael Noer, by Caryl Rivers, professor of journalism at Boston University, and Rosalind C. Barnett, senior scientist at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. Below is … Continue reading

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Which is More Unlikely?

A bikini model who is also an engineer? Or a mainstream comic strip that doesn’t take cheap shots at women?

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Very Strange, Manipulative News Story About A Urinal

Here is the urinal in question: Now here is the full text of this story, entitled “McDonald’s removes mouth-shaped urinals,” bolded in the regular font, with my questions and comments interspersed in italics: AMSTERDAM : A McDonald’s fast-food outlet in … Continue reading

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Virginity or Death!

Okay, so Katha Pollitt has a new book out, Virginity or Death! And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time. As mentioned at this blog previously, Echidne of the Snakes gave it a very good review here. The blogger … Continue reading

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The 3rd Christina Conference on Women’s Studies & The 4th European Gender & ICT Symposium: Gender, Images and Global Context, March 8-10, 2007, University of Helsinki, Finland

Gender, Images and Global Contexts brings together two successful  conferences: the Christina Conference on Women?s Studies, organized in Helsinki in 2003 and 2005 and the European Gender and ICT symposium, previously organized in Amsterdam (2003), Brussels (2004) and Manchester   … Continue reading

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Belle Lettre: “How Do You Take Your News? Depends On Your Age, Educational Level, and Gender”

More great guest blogging from Belle of Law and Letters (where this is cross-posted): I have to admit to not watching much nightly news–when I’m not sick or suffering from grad student ennui (during which times I can consume many … Continue reading

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Other Good Things to Read

“On Wilding (or ‘My social studies teacher was right’)” at Black Feminism.org “Obscuring the Male Gaze” at Official Shrub.com “Where Are the Influential Advertising Women?” at the Huffington Post “No Room in the Big Tent” at Alternet “I Hate Prudence” … Continue reading

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Feminism, Femininity, Sexuality, “Raunch” and Empowerment

Ariel Levy wrote a book called Female Chauvinist Pigs, which received the following review from Publisher’s Weekly: What does sexy mean today? Levy, smartly expanding on reporting for an article in New York magazine, argues that the term is defined … Continue reading

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“Feminism and Women Under 40” at Pace Law School on March 21

On Tuesday, March 21, 2006, at 7:00 p.m., Pace Law School is sponsoring a panel discussion, “Feminism and Women Under 40,” as part of its Public Policy Lecture Series. Here is a description of the program: As baby boomers enter … Continue reading

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“The Paradox of Pornography”

Below is an excerpt from an op-ed by Robert Jensen, a journalism professor at the University of Texas. You can read the entire piece here: “Pornography’s business has always been the exposure of women’s bodies for the pleasure of men, … Continue reading

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Ariel Levy: “This bawdy world of boobs and gams shows how far we’ve left to go”

Ariel Levy in the 2/17/06 Guardian: “A few years ago I noticed something strange was happening in my native US. I would turn on the television and find strippers in nipple-tassels explaining how best to lap-dance a man to orgasm. … Continue reading

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