User:Carlmo1357/Evaluate an Article

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Feminist method

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I chose this article because it was related to my class titled foundations of feminism. I think the Feminist method article is important to look at becauseit helps people understand the importance of feminism, what it is, and the positives, and drawbacks associated with the feminist method. My first thoughts of the article is that it gives a basic overview of the feminist method and a few examples of researchers who demonstrate this method. However, the article lacks direction of examples to explain and readers understand the definition and meaning behind the feminist method.

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I think the article starts out strong with explaining feminist method saying it means of conducting and investigating from a feminist theory. However, I would suggest adding a more explicit definition of feminism than what the sentence after the definition explained. I also thought the introductory section had several pieces of useful information. However, I think it may have been a little too detailed and suggest some of the information go into the body paragraphs and even be expanded upon. I do not think the information in the lead is not necessarily left out of the body; however, I think some information from the lead could be better incorporated or expanded upon to relate to feminist method.

I do think the article topic is relative to the content; however, I think many of the linked material is relatively out of date. While there are a few sources from the 2010s, many of the sources are from the 1980s and 1990s. I suggest finding relevant information from at least the last 5 years, because feminism and most likely feminist method has drastically changed in the last 10-30 years. I also like how they shared some examples of strong feminist supporters; however I suggest explaining their work to help readers understand the feminist method. I think the article also does start to address equity gaps by sharing feminist methods used as a rebuttal to imperial, racist, patriarchal assumptions. Furthermore it shares Reinharz research of the problem with research and the strengths of feminist approach to research.I would describe Feminist method as a fairly neutral source for a subject that has several differentiating opinions and beliefs. I think the article starts off strong with explaining feminist method using bias free language explaining what it is and what it does. However, as the article continues in the objectivity and construction, I think it starts to make claims of certain research being biased but lack example and explanation to tie into the feminist method. I think the article shares strong information about feminist method but lacks knowledge of other perspectives against feminist method. For example, the biological sex as a scientific construct shares both sides of 2 and five genders but very short in its explanation and does not talk about the feminist method in the section.

I think the Feminist method does provide several useful resources from books like Feminist Methods of Social Research and Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. (Although I had a difficult time finding the actual book for Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples.). I could not find a wide array of marginalized groups of people from the researchers, so a possible suggestion is searching out more information related to feminist methodology from marginalized groups of people who experiences oppression. (I also had a difficult time finding information about feminist method from marginalized groups of people so there may not be as much relevant information from the people related to the subject.I think all the links work but some led me to a capture screen which may or may not be right. A possible better resource to pull from could be https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosf042#:~:text=Feminist%20methodology%20is%20the%20approach,been%20marginalized%20in%20academic%20research. because it offers a source of solely information about feminist method. The article also lacks a citation in the lead section.

There are no images in the article so I would suggest finding relevant information to the topic of feminist method to make the topic more understandable and intriguing to readers.

The Feminist method is of interest to Wiki Projects. It is rated start class and the people from the talk pages argue it does not need to be a source on Wikipedia. However, there was one edit from 2018 adding an archive and modifying an external link

Overall, I think this article has potential. I think it starts strong with explaining feminist method but lacks direction and cohesiveness to give the full picture of the history, example, and current status of feminist method. I think it might be helpful to shorten the lead part and create more cohesive body sections as parts of the feminist method. I also think expanding emotion and questioning biological sex as a scientific construct and relate it more to the feminist method. I can also understand the talk page comments stating it may not be needed on Wikipedia because it could fall under the information of pseudoscience instead of finding research. Furthermore, it may also be helpful to combined the found information under feminism in general. However I think with some organization and more recent resources the article has potential to be a strong Wikipedia page.