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Saturday, August 9, 2014
Books: Bad Feminist
From Slate, It is Good to be a "Bad" Feminist
I bristled a little at the title of Roxane Gay's new collection of essays: Bad Feminist. Was that "bad" a backhanded boast, a Cool Girl's rejection of all the supposedly militant and humorless "good" feminists out there?
Then I started reading the book, and I realized the professor cum novelist cum voice-on-the-Internet isn't proclaiming herself a chiller, smarter, funnier feminist than anyone else. She is exploring imperfection: the power we (we people, and especially we women) wield in spite and because of it. Her essays, which are arresting and sensitive but rarely conclusive, don't care much for unbroken skin. They are about flaws, sometimes scratches and sometimes deep wounds. Gay studies the cracks and what fills them.
August 9, 2014 in Books, Theory | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Women in the Military
Cara Hoffman has a recent Op-Ed in Truth Out. It follows her earlier piece in the NYT, where she observed:
....as many as a third of all women serving in the military are raped by fellow soldiers during their tours of duty, compounding whatever traumas they may have experienced in combat.
July 31, 2014 in Manliness, Masculinities, Theory, Violence Against Women | Permalink | Comments (1)
Sunday, July 13, 2014
Do the Justices Vote Their Gender?
Some interesting discussion here. It is telling that no newspaper headline focuses on how the male justices "vote their gender."
July 13, 2014 in Theory | Permalink | Comments (0)
Saturday, June 14, 2014
High School Boys Talk About Why They're Feminists
The video is here: High School Boys Talk About Why They're Feminists. Some of their thoughts: Because its about more than equal rights for women. Because its humanistic. Because of intersectionality - no one is one dimensional. Because of misogynist song lyrics and behaviors.
June 14, 2014 in Theory | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, June 13, 2014
Hillary Clinton's Book Reviewed
Sure, Clinton jokes in the book about scrunchies and outfits and nail polish to make her point that woman in public life are forced under a microscope. "There is a persistent double standard applied to women in politics," she writes, "regarding clothes, body types, and of course hairstyles."
But Clinton is still not ready to talk – at least not in a substantive way – about what it meant to be the first woman to go so far, yet still fall short, in the race for the 2008 Democratic nomination. And she is certainly not saying, in Hard Choices or in the rounds of interviews and appearances surrounding its release, how she would overcome biases on women seeking power when and if she decides to run in 2016.
It's about time she did.
June 13, 2014 in Theory, Work/life, Workplace | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Cool Feminisms
Recommended reading by women's studies profs as excellent introduction to feminism and making it real for students.
Victoria Bromley, Feminisms Matter: Debates, Theories, Activism (U. Toronto Press 2012)
INTRODUCTION: As you sit on the bus, in the library, at home in the living room, or in a commons on campus, you might find people looking over your shoulder and asking you what you're reading. When you respond, "I'm reading Feminisms Matter: Debates, Theories, Activism," they might ask you why. Why indeed? Perhaps it's because you're interested in feminisms or because the book has been assigned as part of a course you're taking. The word on the street, on the other hand, is that feminism is dead, so what could possibly be important about feminism? The short answer is, "Everything!"...
When you hear the word "feminism" or "feminist," you might find yourself in a quandary. You might be curious, furious, or you might just want to run for cover. Feminism is a word that is frequently used and often abused. Where you hear it, who says it, and the context in which it is used often influences your reaction. How can the "F-word" stir up such emotion?
We made it! We are equal. Feminism is no longer necessary. And, of course, feminism is dead. The struggle is over and we can put our concerns to rest. These are some of the tenets that we often hear. It makes us feel good to think that things are not as bad for women and other marginalized groups as they were in the past. Social commentary of this brand is often paired with the familiar preface for gender equality assertions: "I'm not a feminist but…" What follows is a laundry list of values or aspirations that most people can agree...
In the last chapter, we discussed the complex and interconnected histories of feminist and social justice movements. Feminism, however, is not simply a movement. It is also a theory. So, to understand feminisms more fully, we must also understand what theory is and why we need it. Yes, theory. OMG! Don't run for cover just yet.
Intersectionality is a conceptual tool for analyzing differences. It allows us to think about multiple identities and how they may be interconnected in complex ways. It is also a tool for understanding how multiple systems of oppression may be interrelated. Feminists use the concept of intersectionality, a term coined by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, to consider how interlocking systems of oppressions, complex identities, and social inequalities affect people's lives (Crenshaw 1989). The concept of intersectionality has long been used by black feminists to explore the lives of racialized women.
Thinking through the intersectionalities of identities, the complexities of people's lives, and the very real struggles that people face every day is not simple. Nor is it easy to understand how people confront and resist oppressions, exploitations, and marginalization. Yet resistance on multiple fronts continues and theories help us to understand not only the struggles towards social justice but also the triumphs of achieving justice. Feminist theorizing, then, is an ongoing process. It does not assume that one theory can address all the complexities of women's and men's lives in vastly diverse social, political, economic, and geographic spaces or across...
In the previous chapter we noted an ongoing dialogue among feminist theorists and activists. The dialogue continues in this chapter with the exploration of postmodern, "Third World," postcolonial, queer, and transnational feminist theories. The purpose here is to introduce some current feminist debates and discover some of the key questions and arguments being raised in these debates. We will also reflect on some of the limitations and critiques of these theories as a way for us to think about feminisms. We will question how different theories, feminist and otherwise, might influence the way we think, not only about theory but...
Theory is all very well, but what is the point in theorizing if we have nothing concrete about which to theorize? Where is the evidence? Where is the research? How do we collect it? Feminist research draws on insights from the struggles and lived experiences of women and marginalized people. Feminist perspectives, informed by theory and practice, encourage feminist researchers to ask different questions. It makes sense that the evidence to answer our questions must also come from different places. Feminist research is complex and sometimes, rather than just answering the research questions posed, it leads us to more and...
The link between feminist theory and women's movement is not always immediately visible. Nonetheless, doing feminist theory means you have to be grounded in lived experiences. It is this connection to women's lives that gives meaning to feminist theory. Feminist activists have long been struggling to increase the value of women's experiences in order to achieve women's equality and their inclusion at all levels. However, it is through the process of theorizing these activist practices and the lives of women that activism becomes more effective. This means that theory and practice must become praxis.
As a feminist, I know it is important to think about men and masculinities. However, to write about them with a sense of authority is a challenge. This is not because I have no understanding of the issues, debates, and research—I do. Men are important in my life; they are my family members, my friends, and my colleagues. Still I struggle. Perhaps this struggle is related to my identity as a "woman" and all that it encompasses.
CHAPTER TEN: THE STRATEGIES THAT EMPOWER US: FEMINIST ACTIVISM Feminists today have entered a new era of thinking about and doing feminism. We continue to struggle and succeed, but we are still committed to ending oppression and advancing social justice. As feminists, we need to continue to ask new questions and develop new strategies to meet our goals. We must learn from our past, rethinking past actions and strategies, so that we don't have to reinvent the wheel every time a new challenge emerges. Re-examining what we think and how we know about our world is critical. These are not easy tasks.
Just when we thought we had equality, reality sets in. While feminism has been struggling for equality for well over a century, we have yet to meet this goal. When we look at the world in which we live, we know that we cannot abandon our struggles. We must continue to fight for social change to end exploitation and oppression in all its various forms. In this chapter, we will look at some of the ongoing struggles in which feminists are engaged. We will explore what is at stake in the struggle for equality and social justice in the area
June 5, 2014 in Books, Theory | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, May 29, 2014
The Dish on Celebrities and Feminism
More from this month's guest blogger, Professor Jamie Abrams from the University of Louisville School of Law. Her scholarly interests include integrating masculinities theory in feminist law reforms such as military integration and domestic violence; examining the tort complexities governing standards of care in childbirth; gendered conceptualizations of citizenship; and legal education pedagogy.
Perhaps this post is just legitimizing my excessive consumption of media coverage of celebrity scuttlebutt, but I am at least thinly veiling it under my attempt to consider the longevity and adaptability of feminism. The NYT covered the question of "Who is a Feminist Now" describing yet another celebrity who distanced herself from feminism. Most recently, Shailene Woodley said she was not feminist "Because I love men, and I think the idea of 'raise women to power, take the men away from the power' is never going to work out because you need some balance." Putting aside the obvious logical flags in her suggestion that women and men in positions of power is not "balance," the larger point of the article is the trend of young celebrities distancing themselves from feminism.
The undercurrent of this article, and so many others like it, reveals a troubling disconnect in the definition of feminism's goals and its application as a movement. Part of the issue is the framing of the question "are you a feminist?" The article ends with an interesting profile of students at the University of North Carolina who conducted a successful public relations campaign for feminism in which individuals needed to complete the sentence "I need feminism because . . ." By reframing the question, the UNC project then concluded that "rather than claiming it as an identity, young people were able to say this is a toolkit I can use without making it 'this is who I am and this is only who I am.'"
This connects to a broader point about the education of young people about women and feminism. Youth are taught about events in women's history, such as the Seneca Falls Convention and the ratification of the 19th Amendment. They are taught about people in women's history, such as Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Are they, however, taught about feminism as a tool for achieving historical and modern social and legal change? If not explicitly taught, from what sources are women framing their definitions?
I certainly am not overly alarmist regarding the longevity of feminism based on the views of a handful of celebrities, but the question remains, how did they develop their definition of feminism that frames the need for distancing? In thinking about the sustainability of feminism, we must think about how, when, and why young people are introduced to feminism itself, if at all. Just as the UNC project revealed, it needs to be presented as an adaptive tool to achieve a specific result that can address individual needs and achieve change that benefits all. Such an approach reveals that historical celebration of the who and what of women's history is insufficient without the why and how, which feminism addresses much more directly.
May 29, 2014 in Theory | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Moving Beyond Anti-Stereotyping Sex Discrimination Theory
Barbara Stark has written, State Responsibility for Gender Stereotyping,, 17 J. Gender, Race & Justice 333 (2014)
Scholars have recently re-discovered Justice Ruth Bader Ginburg's early anti-stereotyping work. As Cary Franklin notes, Justice Ginsburg's approach "was grounded not in a commitment to eradicating sex classifications from the law, but in a far richer theory of equal protection involving constitutional limitations on the state's power to enforce sex-role stereotypes." Some of these scholars believe that this approach holds great promise for issues at the "frontiers of equal protection law" such as same-sex marriage and the work-family conflict. As Ginsburg herself has come to realize, however, anti-stereotyping is only the beginning. This Article explains why anti-stereotyping is insufficient, what else is needed, and why the Constitution cannot be relied upon to provide it. It explains why the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW or Women's Convention) is far more promising. The Article concludes that CEDAW's bar on stereotyping is not only better for women than the Constitution's grant of equal protection, but better for men as well.
May 6, 2014 in Theory | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, May 1, 2014
Rebecca Zietlow (Toledo), Rights of Belonging for Women, 1 Indiana J. Law & Social Equality 64-99 (2013).
This Article presents a new way to think about women's equality, a theory of rights of belonging — those rights that promote an inclusive vision of who belongs to the national community and facilitate equal membership in that community. Rights of belonging are an alternative to the conventional, identity-based civil rights paradigm, which is based on combating discrimination based on identifiable characteristics. In the past half century, women's equality law has been based primarily in the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and statutes prohibiting discrimination based on identifiable characteristics. While the equal protection model has reduced such discrimination, it has failed to address deeply rooted economic inequality in our society. Because equal protection law only addresses discrimination based on easily identifiable characteristics, including race and gender, it has masked the significance of other fundamentally important, but less visible, characteristics, such as poverty. The persistent poverty of women is a sex equality issue, and pursuing economic rights is crucial to empower women to overcome economic barriers. Thus, rights of belonging must include not only the right to be free of discrimination based on identifiable characteristics, but also economic rights — the material conditions necessary to empower women to participate effectively in the world around them.
May 1, 2014 in Gender, Theory | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, March 31, 2014
Porn's Influence on Children Is "Shockingly Equivocal"
It turns out that the research suggesting that teenagers and pornography are a hazardous mix is far from definitive. In fact, many of the most comprehensive reports on this subject come to conclusions that amount to "we can't say for sure" shrugs.
Based on a recent report commissioned by the British Prime Minister, the results:
...the report found a link between exposure to pornography and engagement in risky behavior, such as unprotected sex or sex at a young age. But little could be said about that link. Most important, "causal relationships" between pornography and risky behavior "could not be established," the report concluded.
March 31, 2014 in Theory | Permalink | Comments (0)
Thursday, March 20, 2014
A Feminist Critique of Unjust Enrichment
This article commences a feminist critique of the unjust enrichment liability model. Together with other legal categories such as contract, tort and equity, unjust enrichment is an independent source of rights and obligations. However, unlike areas of private law that have been the subject of sustained feminist analysis and critique, there has been little attention paid by feminist scholars to understanding the pattern and impact of gender in unjust enrichment reasoning. This article offers some first steps towards filling that gap. We explore the concept of enrichment, evaluating from a feminist perspective how the tests of enrichment are constructed and applied. Our analysis interrogates the extent to which gendered assumptions, patterns or structures are instantiated within enrichment.
In examining the tests of enrichment, we pay particular attention to the ways in which unjust enrichment responds to the provision of domestic services and care. A paradigm concern within feminist scholarship is private law's treatment of women's work, including domestic services, and the recognition of non-financial contributions in the ownership of property within a domestic relationship. There are thus useful comparisons to be made between the treatment of such services in unjust enrichment and, for example, tort and other sources of rights and obligations in private law, which have already been the subject of feminist analysis. Research reveals cases in which these services have been the subject of claims in unjust enrichment. Our initial conclusion is that while the tests of enrichment are vulnerable to gendered assumptions and structures, they also appear to provide protections against these assumptions and their consequences. The same can be said of the methods of valuation of that enrichment, which show a strong commitment to market valuation. The obvious limit to this observation is that the market price must be attentive to embedded hierarchies, including the gendered division of labour. Nonetheless, unjust enrichment's commitment to this market measure has the potential to limit a defendant's ability to devalue women's work.
March 20, 2014 in Theory, Workplace | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Redefining Feminism
Mary Ziegler (Florida State) joins us as a guest blogger this month. Her work in legal history focuses on the law and history of abortion, illegitimacy, contraception, marriage, and child care. Her post last week introduced her topic of exploring feminist legal history.
What do we mean when we talk about feminism? My book project has forced me to reconsider how I would answer this question. My scholarship fits comfortably within any classic definition of feminist legal history: I focus on the intersection of law and history in the context of reproductive health, divorce, marriage, and abortion. I consider myself a feminist and a historian. I brought these understandings of myself and my work to the book and the question at its core: how did Roe v. Wade impact social-movement debate and what can the history of the decision teach us about law as a tool for social change, in the context of gender relations more broadly? Research for the project took me to over seventeen archives, to the basement of convents, and the offices of anti-feminists. The most fun came in the oral histories I conducted with over 100 of those who participated in the abortion wars in the decade after Roe. I spoke with men and women, doctors and homemakers, lawyers and activists, abortion opponents and population controllers, and feminists of every stripe. What I learned made me wonder what it meant to be "pro-choice" or "pro-life." As importantly, the research made me question who should count as a proper object of study for women's legal history.
At the beginning of my research, I had treated pro-choice activism as synonymous with the women's movement—unquestionably a core subject for feminist legal historians. I learned that the relationship between women's rights and the legalization of abortion was much more contested than I had predicted. Identifying a cause with women's rights had profound ideological and strategic ramifications. Physicians, population controllers, and even feminists wondered if embracing the rhetoric of women's rights would set back the progress of abortion reform.
Law also played a surprising and unanticipated role in the creation of the abortion-rights cause. On the one hand, feminists could use the Roe decision in arguing that their movement should frame abortion as an issue of women's rights. The Supreme Court's approval made the idea of abortion as a woman's right more legitimate, more mainstream, and more politically palatable. On the other hand, feminists' wish to preserve that victory created damaging internal debates about the proper scope of a reproductive-justice agenda, about protections against sterilization abuse, and about what counted as true reproductive liberty.
I wonder how often causes and social movements we identify as feminist have a more troubled history. Did different legal movements once count as feminist? Might social causes associated with feminism today once have had a radically different meaning, both legally and politically? It is questions like these that make Women's History Month more exciting than ever for feminist legal historians.
March 11, 2014 in Abortion, Family, Legal History, Theory | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Mary Ziegler Blogs on Women's Legal History This Month
Mary Ziegler (Florida State) joins us as a guest blogger this month. Her work in legal history focuses on the law and history of abortion, illegitimacy, contraception, marriage, and child care.
If it's March, it's time once again to celebrate Women's History Month. With the rise of important new scholarship, we also have a perfect reason to assess the state of women's legal history itself. When New York University Press published a volume of essays on feminist legal history in 2011 (co-edited by Tracy Thomas), feminist legal history was still relatively new. At its heart was a narrative about the history of feminism, starting with the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, continuing through the battle for the Equal Rights Amendment, suffrage, and temperance in the early twentieth century, the rise of the "second-wave" in the 1960s and 1970s, and the backlash to it in the 1980s. Three years later, feminist legal history is unquestionably alive and well—the subject of many books, law review articles, and symposium events. The flourishing of the field makes it more important than ever to question what we mean by both "law" and "feminism."
Over the course of the month, I'm hoping to blog about the ways in which scholars are testing the boundaries of current understandings of women's legal history. Some historians have found law in unconventional places: in the stories of those operating in administrative agencies, legislative hearings, abortion clinics, doctors' offices, and grassroots organizations. These histories invite us to rethink whether women make law even when they do not transform existing doctrine, relate their claims to a lawyer, or change black-letter rules. In this way, women's legal history stands at the forefront of a larger reevaluation of the relationship between law and social change. How we view that relationship, as women's legal historians increasingly recognize, depends on how much we recognize something as law even when it fails to conform to our expectations.
Other historians have tested the relationship between feminism and the law. Whom should we consider a feminist? Should we treat as feminist any historical actor who identified herself (or himself) as such, or can we recognize feminists from their substantive commitments? Should feminist legal historians study those who obstructed legal progress for women? Can feminist politics obscure as well as illuminate our understanding of where we are and how we got here?
I am not sure I'll answer these questions by the end of women's history month, but it's crucial to start a conversation about them. Women's legal history teaches us not to take for granted legal rules, relationships, and institutions that now seem natural. It is a history of society's blind spots and forgotten opportunities. For that reason, Women's History Month seems to be as good a time as ever to consider what we as historians might have missed.
March 4, 2014 in Legal History, Theory | Permalink | Comments (0)
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Higdon on Marginalized Fathers and Demonized Mothers
Michael Higdon at Tennessee Law has uploaded Marginalized Fathers and Demonized Mothers: A Feminist Look at the Reproductive Freedom of Unmarried Men.
The abstract:
Just last month, in the state of Utah, twelve biological fathers filed suit, challenging the state's adoption laws — laws the fathers allege permit "legalized fraud and kidnapping." Specifically, these laws require nonmarital fathers to promptly take legal action in Utah to preserve their paternal rights. A problem arises, however, as mothers from other states have started traveling to Utah specifically to surrender newborn children for adoption. The fathers, unaware that their children are being placed for adoption in another state, fail to take action in Utah and, as a result, are permanently deprived of all parental rights. In that sense, these laws — which actually are not much different than the adoption laws of other states — permit nonmarital mothers to effectively thwart a man's desire to father a resulting child.
Although not the subject of the Utah lawsuit, at the other end of the spectrum, many are surprised to learn that the law also permits a nonmarital mother to force fatherhood on men who never even consented to the sexual act that produced the child. Male victims of statutory rape, for example, in every case to consider the issue, have been ordered to pay child support for children that were a product of the rape. Likewise, adult men who are victims of sexual assault as well as men whose sperm was taken without their consent (and subsequently used to artificially inseminate a female) have also been consistently ordered to pay child support for the resulting child. In all of these cases, the mother's wrongdoing has been ruled irrelevant.
In the enclosed article, Marginalized Fathers and Demonized Mothers: A Feminist Look at the Reproductive Freedom of Unmarried Men, I explore examples of both kinds of fathers — I refer to them as "Thwarted Fathers" and "Conscripted Fathers" — to reveal a serious problem that both share. Namely, the fathers in both categories have suffered a significant abridgment of their reproductive freedom, which the Supreme Court has identified as a fundamental right, either by having fatherhood forced upon them without consent or by having fatherhood withheld from them by deceit and subterfuge. In addition, what is particularly troubling about both classes of cases is that, in all of them, the person who was allowed to ultimately control the father's reproductive freedom was the mother. After all, in both cases, it was decisions the mother unilaterally made that determined how much reproductive freedom the biological fathers would ultimately enjoy.
Thinking of the problem in those terms, such laws start to bear some resemblance to common law coverture, whereby all the wife's legal rights were placed in the hands of her husband, which he would then dole out to her if and when he saw fit. Feminists fought hard to end these legal disabilities and, in the process, revealed the harms that arise from one gender being given dominion over the legal rights of the other. In the attached Article, I argue that the laws relating to the reproductive rights of nonmarital males have effectively evolved into a modern day form of coverture and, thus, must be opposed for the very same reasons coverture was opposed. In addition, given the parallel these laws share with coverture, the reaction to which has greatly shaped modern feminism, feminist legal theory is an ideal lens through which analyze the harms befalling nonmarital fathers.
Of course, feminists have, understandably (and often justifiably), looked at the fathers' rights movement with some skepticism. After all, a victory for fathers could very much come at the expense of those rights feminists have fought long and hard to secure for mothers. As I analyze in the article, however, this concern need not always be the case. And indeed, when it comes to the law as it relates to the reproductive freedom of nonmarital males, feminists are not only the group best situated to wage that battle, but also a group that should have a vested interest in victory. Specifically, as I explore in the Article, the laws in question not only harm nonmarital males, but at the same time, pose significant harms to women. For this reason, I conclude with a list of potential solutions to these problems, identifying areas where change can be instituted so as to offer greater protection for men, but at the same time, preserve current protections afforded women.
March 2, 2014 in Family, Theory | Permalink | Comments (0)
Sunday, February 23, 2014
The Burdens of Manliness....
....as expounded by Mr. Harsh Mander. Some apt epigrams:
1/ For every woman who is tired of acting weak when she knows she is strong, there is a man who is tired of appearing strong when he feels vulnerable.
2/ For every woman who is tired of being called "an emotional female", there is a man who is denied the right to weep and to be gentle.
3/ For every woman who is tired of being a sex object, there is a man who must worry about his potency.
4/ For every woman who is called unfeminine when she competes, there is a man for whom competition is the only way to prove his masculinity.
5/ For every woman who takes a step toward her own liberation, there is a man who finds the way to freedom has been made a little easier.
I've rehearsed some of these musings as well.
February 23, 2014 in Manliness, Masculinities, Theory | Permalink | Comments (0)
Friday, February 21, 2014
What Is a "Gentleman"?
The Good Men Project has another earnest, but rather boring, post about what it means to be a gentleman. The adjectives marshaled are mundane and unhelpful even as they endeavor to wear their virtues on their respective sleeves.
A quote from the Spanish writer Antonio de Guevara begins the post:
"A gentleman is to be measured in his speech, generosity in giving, sober in eating, honesty in living, kindness in forgiving, and courageousness in fighting."
Measured in speech? Generosity in giving? Sober in eating? Honesty in living? Kindness? These seem to be virtues which we commend in women as well, right?
The only descriptor that has been traditionally ascribed to men has been the last one: courageousness in fighting. It is, alas, a most vexing and paradoxical virtue.
February 21, 2014 in Manliness, Masculinities, Theory | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, February 17, 2014
Gay men in sports
Michael Sam, the All-American from the University of Missouri, is the first openly gay football player. Some NFL teams have already supported his candidacy and it seems that the media is supporting him too.
On the other hand, as you probably know, the NFL doesn't seem to be a hospitable place for cultural differences, as suggested by the ordeals suffered by Jonathan Martin.
This conflict between the gentleman and the brute, which I've examined elsewhere, seems never ending.....
February 17, 2014 in LGBT, Manliness, Masculinities, Sports, Theory | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Sexual Orientation Bibliography
A colleague directed my attention to a fabulously useful bibliography--with active links to articles--about LGBT legal issues:
February 11, 2014 in Books, LGBT, Same-sex marriage, Scholarship, Theory | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
From here in the US,.....
Christina Hoff Sommers writes in a NYT Op-ed:
Boys score as well as or better than girls on most standardized tests, yet they are far less likely to get good grades, take advanced classes or attend college.
Sommers continues:
The scholars attributed this "misalignment" to differences in "noncognitive skills": attentiveness, persistence, eagerness to learn, the ability to sit still and work independently. As most parents know, girls tend to develop these skills earlier and more naturally than boys.
Not being an educational sociologist, I have no idea if this is true, but the choice of words intrigues me. Attentiveness, persistence, ...the ability to...work independently--these are all, arguably, anyway, masculine virtues, aren't they?
February 5, 2014 in Manliness, Masculinities, Scholarship, Theory | Permalink | Comments (0)
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Harvard Law Review Essays on Justice Ginsburg
Essays in Honor of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
To honor Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's twenty years of service on the United States Supreme Court so far, Harvard Law School planned a celebration and many individual faculty members wrote reflections on some of her opinions. Those reflections are assembled here along with our community's heartfelt admiration and appreciation. Very few individuals in history come close to the extraordinary and significant role played by Justice Ginsburg in the pursuit of justice before she joined the bench. Her work earned her a faculty post at Rutgers School of Law and then the first tenured post for a female professor at Columbia Law School. As director of the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, she argued six landmark cases on gender equality before the U.S. Supreme Court and crafted successful challenges to the system of legally enforced gender roles that limited opportunities for both women and men. With vision and brilliance, she earned a place in the history books and on the honor roll of civil rights heroes.
Both as judge on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, she has produced a body of superbly crafted opinions and nurtured a quality of collegiality that represents an equally significant contribution to the administration of justice. And there is more to come.
It is a special privilege and honor for me, as the second woman to serve as Dean, to salute Justice Ginsburg at Harvard Law School. When she was a student here, she faced a class of over 500 men and only seven other women. She juggled her roles as a wife and mother with her work as a law student and faced a Dean who chided female students for taking the places of qualified males. She excelled. She joined the Harvard Law Review. When her husband, fellow law student Martin Ginsburg, had to deal with cancer, she took notes for him and helped him recover. And when the Harvard Dean refused her request to earn her degree while moving to New York with her family and completing her final year of schooling at Columbia Law School, she transferred there and promptly rose to the top of the class. She gently but rightly resisted the requests of later Harvard Law School Deans to accept a tardy degree from Harvard Law School but finally, in 2011, received a Harvard degree — an honorary doctorate, the university's highest academic honor. It is with joy that we offer these reflections on some of her judicial work.
~ Martha Minow
127 Harv. L. Rev. 423 (2013) | DOWNLOAD PDF | WESTLAW
February 1, 2014 in Theory, Women lawyers | Permalink | Comments (0)


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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ndrmfc/over_the_top) has announced the addition of the "Over The Top (OTT) Market by Content, Access Type - Worldwide Forecasts & Analysis (2014 - 2019)" report to their offering.
In recent times, the production of electronic devices has been significantly increased majorly due to advancement in VLSI (very large scale integration) technologies. This gives added capabilities to these devices including gesture recognition, Internet connectivity, more storage capabilities, and so on. Over The Top (OTT) services primarily use the Internet as a medium for communication. Now, when the devices like smart phones, PDAs, smart TV, set top box, and gaming consoles have the Internet connectivity, OTT services can be used across these devices. In the Over The Top market, certain industry verticals are also expected to provide immense opportunities.
Referring particularly the mobile segment, currently the subscriber uses a phone call, SMS, or video call services in order to communicate with each other through a cellular network. But with the implementation of Over The Top (OTT) services, these users can connect among each other with the help of data connection which they have subscribed on their smartphones. The advantage of using OTT services is that it is much cheaper compared to legacy carrier services. The disadvantage can be the quality of service that is degraded in the countries where there is low Internet penetration.
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A major new report, entitled 'Social Policy in a Cold Climate,' finds it is the poor, not the rich, who have carried the burden of austerity.
A major new report, entitled 'Social Policy in a Cold Climate,' finds it is the poor, not the rich, who have carried the burden of austerity.
Dubai is planning to build a temperature-controlled city featuring the world's largest mall and an indoor park, as well as hotels, health resorts and theatres, the developer said.
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An online Bitcoin trading platform aimed at Chinese investors has suddenly closed, leaving hundreds with more than 20 million yuan ($3.3 million) in combined losses, a newspaper said on Thursday.
Candidates running for US federal office may be allowed to accept Bitcoin donations but not spend the digital currency, according to a proposal by regulators.
In her new book Professor Brigitte Granville warns governments not to think of inflation as yesterday's problem. Present unsustainable levels of public debt could end up leading to high inflation – especially in the Eurozone.
The world lost record amounts of Arctic sea ice in 2012 and spewed out all-time high levels of greenhouse gases by burning fossil fuels, international climate scientists said Tuesday.
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Fullcircle Technologies (Pty) Ltd provides integrated mobile solutions within industry verticals where it has significant domain knowledge in Southern Africa. Fullcircle initially entered the transport and logistics industry in 2006 successfully implementing solutions for leading companies. Similarly Fullcircle has taken its understanding of field service requirements and in 2009 partnered with Astea to provide service lifestyle management solutions to the South African market.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) â¿¿ West Virginia mine safety officials were to release the final report on a 2010 explosion that killed 29 miners Thursday just as federal prosecutors turn up the heat on managers they say contributed to the tragedy.
Families of those killed will gather in Beckley to receive the fourth report on the Upper Big Branch mine blast â¿¿ this one from the state Office of Miners Health Safety and Training. The report will be made public after the families are briefed.
Previous reports â¿¿ issued by the Mine Safety and Health Administration, the United Mine Workers of America and an independent panel appointed by the former governorâ¿¿ all concluded that Virginia-based Massey Energy let explosive methane and coal dust build up in the mine, and that worn and broken cutting equipment ignited it.
The release comes a day after federal prosecutors charged the mine's former superintendent with fraud and signaled they are going after other former Massey employees. Gary May, 43, was charged with conspiracy to defraud the government, accused among other things of disabling a methane gas monitor, falsifying safety records and using code words to tip off miners underground about surprise inspections. May is the highest-ranking company official charged in the 2010 disaster, and he is apparently cooperating with prosecutors, who said the investigation is far from over. He could get up to five years in prison if found guilty. The only other Massey Energy employee prosecuted so far in the nation's deadliest mining disaster in four decades is former mine security chief Hughie Elbert Stover, who will be sentenced next week for lying to investigators and trying to destroy documents. Prosecutors are urging a federal judge to make an example of Stover by giving him the maximum â¿¿ 25 years in prison. Another mine official, Thomas Harrah, was sentenced last year to prison time for using a fake foreman's license when he conducted safety reviews. That case was discovered during the blast investigation but the violations were from 2008 and 2009 and Harrah was not working at the mine when the fatal explosion happened.Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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Original image was a fractal (Fount of Inner Goodness) that I made in Apophysis 7X with the Botanical Fractals Tutorial by mynameishalo
Turned into a kaleidoscope in Sumo Paint just for fun
kaleidoscope, fractal, mirror image, abstract, colorful, blue, green
My hope is to generate happiness and inspiration through my work. Enjoy!
View Full ProfileGorgeous work Georgia awesome colors
Thanks so much, Maggie! :-)
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Looks great Georgia!
Your kind comment is really appreciated, James! Thanks!
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Lovely stuff!! . . .
Thanks so much, Hugh! Glad you like it! :-)
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Gorgeous image, flow and colors!
I really appreciate your comment and am glad you like it! :-)
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Very nice
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superb georgie,brilliant colours,cheers mike
Mike, thanks so much for nice comment! :-)
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Depth, interest, balance, symmetry, and contrast combine here to bring this from "just another fractal" up into a very hangable piece of artwork.
Dawn, thank you so much for the positive review of this piece and the feature! I was really excited to see the transformation that evolved from the original fractal. :-)
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A beautiful garden indeed!… and you don't have to water this garden each day!
Thanks very much for the comment and for stopping by! :-)
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love the colours and the pattern Georgia…congrats on the features…well deserved… :)


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5 Good storyline, long, but good game. Worth every penny.Posted: 30/05/2008Excellent game, if you like games like broken sword then you will love this one. Im a fan of games like these and in places I got a bit stuck but the suspense makes you more determined to finish the game. The ending isnt quite what I thought it would be, could have been a little better but a great suspense and mystery story.