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Contents 1 General 1.1 Gender Bias 1.1.1 Biased Language 1.1.2 Description by Physical Characteristics 1.1.3 Biased Pictures 1.1.4 Possessive Terminology 2 Articles 2.1 Stubs, and Requested Articles 2.2 Requests for expansion 2.3 Requests for review/attention

[edit] General

General considerations. Things that you can do to improve any article.

[edit] Gender Bias

Articles which display a gender bias that contributors can help to correct, or where the work of relevant Gender Studies researchers is not discussed (yet should be).

[edit] Biased Language

Usage of the terms "Miss" or "Mrs." should be changed to "Ms." or, preferably, removed entirely.

[edit] Description by Physical Characteristics

A woman's height and weight are generally considered irrelevant except in the cases of athletes and models.

[edit] Biased Pictures

Oftentimes, the images selected to represent women are among the most sexualized, and least humanizing. If possible, attempt to locate suitable alternatives.

[edit] Possessive Terminology

Referring to someone as the wife of (or husband of) someone implies possession of them by their husband or wife. Terminology such as is married to restores the person's humanity, and keeps the focus on the person being described.

[edit] Articles

[edit] Stubs, and Requested Articles

Articles on topics relevant to Gender Studies that either don't exist (but should), or alternatively are stubs which require much more depth (see also Category:Feminism stubs):

• From List of feminists:
  • Charlotte Wilson
  • Lois Marie Gibbs
  • Natasha Walter
  • Marcelle Karp
  • Heather Dean
  • Ti-Grace Atkinson
  • Krystal Wakem
  • Carol Downer
  • Francis Power Cobbe
  • Rosa Mayreder
  • Lorraine Bethel
  • Helene Aylon
  • Bernadette Cozart
  • Charlene Spretnak
  • Donna LaFramboise
  • Olympe Audouard
  • Pauline Roland
  • Peggy Kornegger
  • Eugenie Potonie-Pierre
  • Kathy Rudy
  • Florynce Kennedy
• Dorothy Kenyon, American lawyer, supporter of women's rights
• Elizabeth Gurley Flinn, labour organizer with the IWW - a pretty good article. Maybe a little cleanup required. AnAn 03:22, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
• Czech feminists Eliška Krásnohorská, Anna Bayerová, Alice Masaryková, Karolina Světlá
• History of women or Women's history or whatever, we don't seem to have one (though we do have History of women in the United States)
  • this seems like a massively over-broad topic. History of women in the United States seems like it could be split into two topics... history of feminism in the US and role/treatment of women in XXXX period in the US. In either case, at least there's a coherent "wrapper" around the topic... the geographical bound of the US. Because the treatment/rights/role/history of women moves at very different paces in different places, it seems to make a lot more sense to break the broad History of women into more manageable chunks. Feco 07:19, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Olga Lipovskaya and Tatiana Mamonova Russian feminists
• 2 red links on List of women poets:
  • Lalleshvari Kashmiri
  • Seanna Lanagan
• 59 red links on List of women novelists before Jane Austen:
  • Elizabeth Boyd
  • Sophie Briscoe
  • Eliza Bromley
  • Indiana Brooks
  • Mrs Burke
  • Sarah Harriet Burney
  • Lady Charlotte Bury
  • Lady Mary Champion de Crespigny
  • Mary Charlton
  • Harriet Chilcot
  • Jane Collier
  • Anne Dawe
  • Anne Eden
  • Elisa Fenwick
  • E. M. Foster
  • Anne Fuller
  • Phoebe Gibbes
  • Mrs A. Gomershall
  • Susannah Minifie Gunning
  • Lady Mary Hamilton
  • Mary Ann Hanway
  • Mrs Howell
  • Anne Hughes
  • M. (Harley) Hugill
  • Maria Hunter
  • Susanna Keir
  • Sophia King
  • Sarah Lansdell
  • Mary Latter
  • Charlotte MacCarthy
  • Anna Maria Mackenzie
  • Jean Marshall
  • Eliza Matthews
  • Anna Meades
  • Margaret Minifie
  • Elizabeth Norman
  • Charlotte Palmer
  • Mary Elizabeth Parker
  • Catherine Parry
  • Eliza Phelp Parsons
  • Susanna Pearson
  • M. Peddle
  • Mary Pilkington
  • Arabella Plantin
  • Elizabeth Plunkett
  • Mary Anne Radcliffe
  • Elizabeth Singer Rowe
  • Elizabeth Ryves (or Elizabeth Reeves)
  • Charlotte Sanders (or Charlotte Saunders)
  • Ann Emelinda Skinn
  • Eleanor Sneath
  • Sarah Emma Spencer
  • Miss Taylor
  • Jane Timbury
  • Elizabeth Tomlins
  • Jane Warton
  • Helena Wells
  • Mrs A. Woodfin
  • Mary Julia Young
• over 30 red links on (incomplete) List of women in Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature
• over 60 red links on (incomplete) List of writers in Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing, e.g.
  • Kishwar Naheed (born 1940), Pakistani poet
  • Huda al-Namani (born 1930), Syrian poet
  • Hamida Nana (born 1946), Syrian novelist, poet and journalist
  • Naravadee (born 1931), Thai fiction writer and poet.
  • Valeriia Spartakovna Narbikova (born 1958), Russian writer and painter
  • Emily Nasrallah (born 1931), Lebanese novelist, short-story writer and journalist
  • Marie NDiaye (born 1967), French novelist
  • Lauretta Ngcobo (born 1931), South African novelist, editor and fiction writer
  • Giulia Niccolai (born 1934), Italian poet and writer
  • Eilean Ni Chuilleanain (born 1942), Irish poet
  • Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill (born 1952), Irish poet
  • Nie Hualing (born 1925), Chinese fiction writer and literary critic
  • Anupama Niranjana (1934-1991), Indian novelist and short-story writer
  • Rebeka Njau (born 1939), Kenyan novelist, playwright and critic
  • Francine Noël (born 1945), Canadian novelist
  • Olga Nolla (born 1938), Puerto Rican poet
  • Nu Nu Yi (or Inya) (born 1957), Burmese short-story writer and novelist
• American WWII journalists Toni Frissell - Marvin Breckinridge Patterson - Esther Bubley - May Craig
• Jane Hall
• Rose Keegan
• Belva Ann Lockwood
• Marietta Stow
• Breadwinner (role) (should be at breadwinner, but begin article here)
• Feminism in Norway - I'm writing as I do the research, but would certainly appreciate assistance of any kind. --Leifern 14:07, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
• Ruth Roded (born 1943), social historian in the field of Middle East studies and history of Islam at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (publication)

[edit] Requests for expansion

Articles which, while they exist, deserve a lot more depth:

• Phallus. An important element of the patriarchy and, therefore, a critical piece of feminist theory. Needs to be expanded into a serious article
• Rachel Foster Avery, corresponding secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage Association
• Laura Bassi, fisrt woman to teach in a European university, stub I've expanded this. I'm not sure if I should delete it from here or if someone might want to expand it more.
• Marie-Louise Berneri, anarchist writer and activist
• Brazilian Women's Articulation, NGO in Brazil
• Feminist history is correctly described on History as an ideological approach toward general history studies, yet this article doesn't really exist; it redirects to History of feminism, not the same thing at all - there is now a brief article started, needs expansion by someone who knows it well --Bookgrrl 04:09, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
• Frances Power Cobbe
• Edinburgh Seven a group of women who fought to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh in the 1860s, the leader of the group Edith Pechey-Phipson and Sophia Jex-Blake went on to have successful medical careers I've expanded this.HJMG
• Janet Flanner major figure from the 1930s Paris scene, was the New Yorker's Paris correspondent under the name "Citizen Genet".
• Marilyn French, American author
• Betty Friedan We accurately call her "one of the most influential feminists of the late 20th Century"... and we give her a stub.
• Gender-blind
• Catharine MacKinnon major feminist thinker, we have little but a list of publications
• Mary Margaret McBride 1930s and 1940s U.S. radio talk show host, pretty major figure, I added a stub.
• Adrienne Monnier major figure from the 1930s Paris scene
• Nawal el-Sadaawi, Egyptian writer/activist
• Bertha von Suttner, Austrian pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, stub
• Emma Goldman, anarchist feminist; short and poorly organized article divided into too many sections
• Emma Willard, established the first women's higher education institution, stub
• Sibylle Gabrielle Marie Antoinette Riqueti de Mirabeau, French writer under the pseudonym Gyp Madame de Martel.
• Helen Lynd, American sociologist
• Aletta Jacobs, early proponent of artificial birth control
• Judy Chicago arguably the U.S.'s most famous specifically feminist artist, we have a tiny stub.
• Kang Youwei (1858-1927) and Liang Qichao (1873-1929), Chinese intellectuals their interest in gender equity is not discussed
• Katô Shidzue one of the first post-war feminists in Japan; now decently fleshed out, but still could use expansion JerryOrr 00:08, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
• Martha Griffiths, US politican, made sure women were included in the civil rights bill, stub
• Matilda Joslyn Gage, radical US feminist
• Mary Butts - important modernist writer.
• Mary Daly major feminist thinker, we have little but a list of publications. Featured on todo list 20:02, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC).
• Massouda Jalal the one female presidential candidate in the Afghanistan election
• Mills College students got national attention fighting to keep Mills a women's college in the 1990s; we have a tiny stub and no mention of the history, most of the Women's colleges are stubs Category:Women's universities and colleges in the U.S.
• Mia Zapata highly respected (albeit not nationally famous) indie rock musician, murdered in 1993. That's about all our page says: nothing really about her music and nothing about the massive amount of work on women's self-defense done by Home Alive, founded in her memory.
• Nadine Gordimer South African Nobel price winner in Literature 1991.
• Nawal El Saadawi and Hoda Shaarawi important egyptian feminists, stubs
• Princess Marie of Edinburgh (a.k.a.Queen Marie of Romania): a rather important intellectual and political figure, gets short shrift.
• Rosalind Miles very important women's history author, wrote The Women's History of the World (also needed). --Dmcdevit 04:17, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Sarah Weddington, lawyer on Roe vs Wade, stub
• Silvina Ocampo Argentine intellectual. We have a reasonable short article on her sister, Victoria Ocampo
• Sisters in Islam, prominent Malaysian women's group
• The Revolution American feminist newpaper, stub
• Women's studies; stub, I've expanded on this article a bit I'm going to add some more after I talk to my professor --Kylehamilton 09:48, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
• U.S. v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries, the ruling that made birth control education possible in the US
• Yenlin Ku Taiwanese feminist, established the first women's studies program in Taiwan
• Yoshioka Yayoi Japanese educator & physician; she started women's med univ in tokyo. I started a stub but it needs a lot of work. (2006/11/23)
• Yü Cheng-hsieh (1775-1804) and Li Ju-chen (1763-1830), historic Chinese feminists
• Yvonne Vera female author from Zimbabwe, saved from deletion, but it still could be expanded beyond a stub

Other

• Conflict Tactics Scale internationally used social survey but very unpopular among some DV activists Paul foord 08:05, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requests for review/attention

Articles that need to be cleaned up, or checked:

• Domestic violence - I have tried to develop the structure of the article but those parts relating to DV and gender need LOTS of work. Paul foord 08:05, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
• Oriana Fallaci prominent Italian journalist and author. Little though I like her remarks on contemporary Islam, she certainly deserves more of an article. We mostly have a bibliography, quotations, and links. -- Jmabel 22:59, Sep 23, 2004 (UTC)
• masculism - as requested on the discussion page -- Ilessthan3you 03:50, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
• fathers rights - as requested on the discussion page -- Ilessthan3you 03:50, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
• penis envy - this article is POV'd in two ways at the same time. horrible article. Please add freudian view and feminist view, accurately.--Urthogie 09:37, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
• Men's movement (new article) - there is work ongoing to improve the articles related to this
  • Pro-feminism and Pro-feminist men - question of separate articles - review of this would be appreciated. (There is a related question on Mythopoetic)
  • Men's liberation / Masculism / Men's rights & Fathers' rights -- Paul foord 09:49, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
• Masculine psychology -- Paul foord 05:00, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• OFFENSIVE ALERT >> slut << , also look at Trophy wife & bitch Thanks ColtsScore 08:22, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
• Hot flash / Hot flush (menopause) is still basically just a stub. -- 201.51.221.66 11:20, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Camille Paglia With minimal effort, this would be a good article. Chuchunezumi 23:50, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
• Talk:Sexual intercourse:Proposed move of content of "Sexual intercourse" to new title "Vaginal intercourse". Current content of "Sexual intercourse" entirely heternonormative, referring only to penile-vaginal intercourse. Please vote!
• Equal Rights Amendment Mwillia9 06:01, 18 February 2007 (UTC)