User:Algeraj/Evaluate an Article

Intersectional Feminism Evaluation

 * Name of article: Intersectionality
 * I chose this article to evaluate because intersectionality is something that interests me and I enjoy reading about it, and it has a lot to do with what we talk about in class. There was also an orange heading on the top of it that states that there are several things wrong with this article, including that it may not represent a worldwide view of the subject and that it may rely too heavily on one source.

Lead
The introduction describes well what is in the rest of the article, but it bothers me that the topic is intersectional feminism and there is hardly any mention of women who are not black or white. I felt that the introduction explained the definition of intersectionality and intersectional feminism very well though. It could have mentioned the Marxist theory in this paragraph, and they definitely could have tried to add more global information instead of just information pertaining to the United States.

Content
Intersectional feminism refers to ALL women and the struggles that they face in reference to how many social identities they have. The content is relevant to the topic because the topic seemed like it was mainly narrowed down to African American and white women, and left out other women and the struggles they may endured. This article focuses mainly on women and the hardships they endured in the United States, and not really globally. Intersectionality is used when talking about ALL people.

Tone and Balance
This was my biggest problem with this article. I felt as though the author/authors did not incorporate the experiences of women from all different races, cultures, religious, ethnicities and classes. Women in general are the subject of intersectional feminism, but all women experience different things depending on how many social identities they have. It is important to recognize other things besides just race and class when talking about intersectional feminism, which is what I feel happened in this article. It mentions different types of women but rarely talks in detail about anyone besides white or black women.

Sources and References
All of the links work, but the author should have taken information from more sources than they did.

Organization
This article is well written grammatically and easy to read. It did get a little repetitive at times but overall it was good.

Images and Media
There are only two pictures in this article, and even though both of them were good, relevant pictures to put in, there definitely could have been more or better pictures as well. Neither are captioned very well, but the feminism symbol was definitely one that should have been put in because the entire subject is intersectional feminism. The other picture is just a very small picture of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles. There were several other people who were mentioned in this article that were not pictured. I would recommend adding a picture of Kimberlé Crenshaw, who coined the term 'intersectionality'.

Checking the talk page
Everyone in the talk page agrees with my idea that the article was sort of one sided when talking about women because they focused mainly on African american women and white women instead of ALL women. Also, people said a lot about how the author should have included more sources.

Overall impressions
Overall, I enjoyed reading this article but it was very single sided and the sources were not very good. The author should have included much more about other types of women and the oppressions that they face as well as African American and white women. They did a great job explaining what exactly intersectionality is, but needed more examples.