Talk:Agnes (case study)

Tense in article
If Agnes is a living person (as heading states) then the verb "was" in the introduction would seem to be inappropriate. 72.106.153.181 (talk) 00:19, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Resistance to?
"In 1958 she was working as a typist for an insurance company, and had a boyfriend. Her insistence on intercourse and marriage led to a series of quarrels, and she disclosed her details to him."

Since this makes no sense, how does it need to be revised? What are the facts? I assume it needs to say either "His insistence" or "Her resistence". I will check article history. Maybe this is a case of entropy. Tom Haws (talk) 22:25, 8 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Found in history. Fixing. Tom Haws (talk) 22:27, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

Torres?
I just went through and updated all "Agnes" (except in the quote) to "Torres" per MOS:SURNAME—but where did this "Torres" name come from? appears to have created the article as "Agnes Torres" but no source I've seen so far has mentioned a last name at all. Speaking of sources, the article badly needs them. I didn't read through the entire Garfinkel chapter but that's probably the source for a lot of it; the lead mentions a "modern case study" but does not provide a citation, which would be helpful. Garfinkel mentions Stroller's earlier article, which I put in the "Further reading" section:

I also second 153.181's contention about tense, and changed the lead to say "is". Again, there are no modern sources so whether she's alive or dead is not certain, at least in this article.  Ignatz mice•talk 05:17, 6 November 2019 (UTC)


 * I read the whole Garfinkel chapter, which only ever refers to her as Agnes, without a last name. Presumably that "modern" case study is the one where Stoller retracted his findings after talking to her again. I think the article title should probably be changed to just "Agnes", with some sort of parenthetical to provide context.
 * I wonder if the original article creator could have mixed her up with the Mexican trans activist Agnés Torres Hernández? Sleater-Kinsey Scale (talk) 12:00, 6 December 2022 (UTC)