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Article Evaluation

In SlutWalk, nothing was distracting; there was information from countries other than the U.S.

The article feels relatively neutral in tone. It is simply explaining the SlutWalk in different areas.

A lot of sources. I don't know if Facebook is an ok source.

Article has a poor c-rating. It is part of a few projects like Feminism and a few related to Canada.

Article Evaluation
Liberal feminism

All good information. Again, nothing is distracting and it is neutral. There is a header/section for Philosophy but nothing is written in it. It would be cool to be able to add to it but the philosophy is also kind of weaved throughout the other sections. Maybe some of the history portion could be put in philosophy and then there could be more specific history/ beefed up section. I like that there is a section for women writers related to liberal feminism and also that there is a section of critiques as to why liberal feminism as a branch is sometimes controversial.

Included in Wiki-projects Feminism and Politics. I didn't pick up on any obviously questionable sources. It is rated "start class" which is "An article that is developing, but which is quite incomplete. It might or might not cite adequate reliable sources."

History[edit]
Much of the time, feminism is messy to explain with respect to the different branches. The acts of feminism that we attempt to organize into categories often overlap. The goal for liberal feminists in the late 1800s and early 1900s was to gain women's suffrage under the idea that they would then gain individual liberty. They were concerned with gaining freedom through equality, putting an end to men's cruelty to women, and gaining the freedom to opportunities to become full persons. They believed that no government or custom should prohibit the exercise of personal freedom. Early liberal feminists had to counter the assumption that only white men deserved to be full citizens. Feminism focusing on the change of laws was emphasized in what we call the first wave of feminism associated with the mid nineteenth to early twentieth century. A trademark of this wave before the 19th amendment was ratified was the Declaration of Sentiments written by Cady Stanton and signed in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 in front of a crowd of several hundred people. The document demanded legal ability for women to quit being subservient to men and have their own rights in voting and owning things. It also hit on the need for involvement of women in an a variety of aspects such as church, education, and career. Another notable act connected to liberal feminism was the Equal Rights Amendment which was to not allow discrimination based on sex, founded in 1923 but not passed until 1972. Feminists such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Judith Sargent Murray, and Frances Wright advocated for women's full political inclusion. In 1920, after nearly 50 years of intense activism, women were finally granted the right to vote and the right to hold public office in the United States.

Peer Review
Article: Liberal feminism

First Draft 10/24

Under the Philosophy Section- I have already added this paragraph because it was blank before. My plans are to keep these sentences and round it out with a second source. The new sentences will be placed below the paragraph that is already added to the wiki page.

Old part:

Liberal feminism does not have a clearly defined set of philosophies, which makes their beliefs abstract. They value individualistic approaches to justice and societal structures instead of blaming inequalities on others.[1] As Susan Wendell states, "liberal feminism's clearest political commitments, including equality of opportunity, are important to women's liberation and not necessarily incompatible with the goals of socialist and radical feminism."[1]

New part:

The basis of liberalism gave liberal feminism a familiar enough platform that it came the closest out of other waves to convincing the general public and the government that their feminist philosophies "could and should be incorporated into existing law."[2] As Ryan Musgrave states, "Liberal feminists argued for women's rightful inclusion in the liberal category of the autonomous individual as the basic social unit, and that women likewise be accorded the individual rights connected to the category."[2]

[1] Wendell, Susan (1987-06). "A (Qualified) Defense of Liberal Feminism". Hypatia. 2 (2): 65–93. doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1987.tb01066.x. ISSN 0887-5367. Check date values in: |date= (help)

[2] Musgrave, L. Ryan (2003-11). "Liberal Feminism, from Law to Art: The Impact of Feminist Jurisprudence on Feminist Aesthetics". Hypatia. 18 (4): 214–235. doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.2003.tb01419.x. ISSN 0887-5367. Check date values in: |date= (help)


 * 1) Does the draft draw conclusions or try to convince the reader to accept one particular point of view? The new additions to the philosophy section do not include any bias but rather just explain basic fact/knowledge behind intentions and code of liberal feminists and the movement.
 * 2) Are there any words or phrases that don't feel neutral? Feels neutral, very direct from source additions
 * 3) Does the draft make claims on behalf of unnamed groups or people? Philosophy has to be relatively general. It is difficult with the feminist exclusion of minorities but the draft does a good job of stating the general ideas behind liberal feminism
 * 4) Does the draft focus too much on negative or positive information? Still a neutral state. Wouldn't say either is argued.
 * 5) Are there any unsourced statements in the draft, or statements that you can't find stated in the references? Everything is quite direct and is found

Final Article
Much of the time, feminism is messy to explain with respect to the different branches. The acts of feminism that we attempt to organize into categories often overlap. The goal for liberal feminists in the late 1800s and early 1900s was to gain women's suffrage under the idea that they would then gain individual liberty. They were concerned with gaining freedom through equality, putting an end to men's cruelty to women, and gaining the freedom to opportunities to become full persons. They believed that no government or custom should prohibit the exercise of personal freedom. Early liberal feminists had to counter the assumption that only white men deserved to be full citizens. Feminism focusing on the change of laws was emphasized in what we call the first wave of feminism associated with the mid nineteenth to early twentieth century. A trademark of this wave before the 19th amendment was ratified was the Declaration of Sentiments written by Cady Stanton and signed in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 in front of a crowd of several hundred people. The document demanded legal ability for women to quit being subservient to men and have their own rights in voting and owning things. It also hit on the need for involvement of women in a variety of aspects such as church, education, and career. Another notable act connected to liberal feminism was the Equal Rights Amendment which was to not allow discrimination based on sex, founded in 1923 but not passed until 1972.

Feminists such as Mary Wollstonecraft who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman arguing for equal education for women, Judith Sargent Murray, and Frances Wright advocated for women's full political inclusion. In 1920, after nearly 50 years of intense activism, women were finally granted the right to vote and the right to hold public office in the United States. With the central idea of equal rights, liberal feminists were centered on achieving this agenda primarily through getting in on the patriarchal and also other systemized structures such as churches. The women understood that instead of taking down these structures completely, a better bet for them would be to tackle imposed issues by getting on the same level politically as those in power which were white males. Today, liberal feminism is often recalled for the early 1900's suffrage movement as mentioned above, but before that there was also a couple of other central arguments throughout the entirety of the liberal feminism movement as mentioned by Suzanne Marilley. She argues that liberal feminism in the early to mid 1800's had attempted to take effect with giving a voice to women in the anti-slavery movement. Taking place after that in the late 1800's and on until the early 1900's was the focus of liberal feminists in advocating for freedom of violence from men.