User:Bb1822/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Materialist Feminism
 * Article Evaluation
 * The article does a good job of being neutral and got a rating of B on the quality scale. There were a few sections in which I thought would be useful to add further definitions of the terms in order for a wider audience to understand the concepts. I also had a question on one particular sentence: "materialist feminists ask whether people... have access or opportunity to become wealthy". This confused me because it seemed like the whole concept of materialist feminism was against capitalism and the idea of becoming wealthy implies a capitalist economy in my eyes, however, I am admittedly not well versed in Marxism and socialism. It was also unclear if materialist feminism was for a socialist economy, since it sees capitalism as oppressive, or what kind of solutions they were providing for what social changes they were looking for to combat these issues.
 * I don't think I will do this article, but it was an interesting topic to read about nonetheless.


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Option 2

 * Article title
 * Reproductive Labor
 * Article Evaluation
 * The biggest critique I have of this article are the titles and organization of the different sections. I think it could be organized differently and in a more coherent way. I also felt like there needs to be more added towards the intersections within reproductive labor between gender and race. Additionally it would be useful to have more information on possible solutions put forth towards unpaid reproductive labor and the "double burden" that is put on women that have responsibilities both in the working world and with housework. This is an interesting topic, but there may not be enough information out there for me to write about the possible policy solutions to the issue. However, when looking at the Briggs reading in the syllabus that expands on reproductive labor and politics, maybe I can find an angle to focus on.


 * Sources
 * Briggs, L. (2017). How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump (1st ed.). University of California Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctv1wxqbv

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Housing in the United States


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is odd to me because it does not mention much about specific housing policy in the US, for example there is no mention of ways the government subsidizes housing or the housing affordability crisis. I was also interested in seeing more details about housing discrimination and the different ways that the government and nonprofits are hoping to fix the issue. Although I find this topic really interesting and there is clearly a lot I could add to this article, I wonder if I would be taking on too much to chew. It is labeled a stub article and I don't know what I would focus on. Additionally there is a separate article for public housing, however, I would argue that the federal government has tried to lessen public housing and instead focused on private and public partnerships to subsidize housing. Maybe if I explore housing articles more I can find something more specified to the topics I want to expand on.


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