User:Afitz7/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Cultural feminism

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
The article seemed to be closely related to what we have been learning in our Digital Feminisms course this semester, so I thought it would be an interesting read. The article seems well-developed, but not too long or overly wordy.

Evaluate the article
The article contains only information relevant to the topic, with no distractions or unrelated points. The article focuses on cultural feminism in a historic and "modern" context, but the most recent sources are from 2004. As such, the description of what cultural feminism is today is not truly accurate as it is out-of-date and needs updating. While cultural feminism itself is thought to exclude many women and girls, the article accounts for this by including a "Criticisms" section to note such shortcomings. The main improvement should be more recent articles and examples to truly show the development of cultural feminism over the years.

The article does appear mostly neutral, with objective explanations about the theory itself as well as the criticisms it has received from notable feminists. However, there are also many vague statements, seemingly radical feminist ones, that lack direct sources or factual explanations. One viewpoint that is underrepresented is that of non-cisgender people. Aside from a brief mention of criticism in regards to the trans-exlusionary theory, the article relies heavily on the cisgender male/female binary.

The links provided work and contain the information that the article uses, meaning they support the article overall. A significant number of citations occur throughout the text, providing evidence for each claim and additional information for each mention of significant people/theories. The articles also seem mostly unbiased and from diverse sources, though their authors are mostly white.

The Talk page also notes a lack of other perspectives and criticism, as well as the abundance of unsourced radical statements throughout the article. It is connected to the Feminism and Gender Studies WikiProjects, rates C-class for both.