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Article Selection
[edit]Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.
Option 1
[edit]- Article title
- Domestic violence court
- Article Evaluation
- This topic is important because domestic violence is a pervasive social issue, and specialized domestic violence courts are increasingly becoming the criminal-legal system's method of addressing this problem. This article is very short, and provides only a brief overview of the topic. The article should include more discussion of the legal history of domestic violence, of domestic violence courts in places other than New York, and more on the concerns about domestic violence courts. Because the article is so short, despite a large body of research literature on domestic violence courts, there is lots of room for improvement.
- Sources
Bailey, Kimberly. “Lost in Translation: Domestic Violence, ‘The Personal is Political,’ and the Criminal Justice System.” The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 100, 4, 2010, 1255-1300.
Maytal, Anat. "Specialized Domestic Violence Courts: Are They Woth the trouble in Massachusetts?" Boston University Public interest Law Journal, 18, 197, 2008.
Option 2
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- International Committee for Sexual Equality
- Article Evaluation
- There is currently a link to the International Committee for Sexual Equality on the page about the Homophile movement, but the link does not lead to a written article. This topic merits a Wikipedia page because the International Committee for Sexual Equality was a key event in the homophile movement and LGBTQ+ history. The committee brought together representatives from across Europe who demanded equal rights on the basis of sexuality, an important example of transnational activism after World War II. Finally, this topic merits a Wikipedia page because the International Committee for Sexual Equality continues to have a contemporary influence, as the initial group founded the International Gay Association, which is now the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association.
- Sources
- Rupp, L. J. (2014). The European Origins of Transnational Organizing: The International Committee for Sexual Equality. In: Ayoub, P.M., Paternotte, D. (eds) LGBT Activism and the Making of Europe. Gender and Politics series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137391766_2
RUPP, LEILA J. “The Persistence of Transnational Organizing: The Case of the Homophile Movement.” The American Historical Review, vol. 116, no. 4, 2011, pp. 1014–39. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23307877. Accessed 10 Dec. 2022.
Option 3
[edit]- Article title
- National LGBTQ Task Force
- Article Evaluation
- The National LGBTQ Task Force is an important topic because it was the first national gay rights organization in the US. The existing article, however, has very little on the group's history. Most of the article discusses the group's work in the 2000s, which ignores almost 30 years of work from the group's foundation in 1973. The article also does not discuss how the National LGBTQ Task Force fit into the broader LGBTQ movement at the time of its founding.
- Sources
- Rupp, Leila J., Verta Taylor, and Benita Roth. “Women in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Movement.” The Oxford Handbook of US Women’s Social Movement Activism. New York: Oxford, 2017.
- Lillian Faderman, The Gay Revolution: the Story of the Struggle (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015).
Option 4
[edit]- Article title
- White supremacy
- Article Evaluation
- This topic is important because white supremacy is a dangerous ideology that should be better understood in order to combat it. The article should be edited because it does not discuss the specific ways that women in the US promote white supremacy. There is a brief mention of gender and white supremacy, but the entire section is based on one article. Further discussion is necessary to better understand the relationship between gender and race in the white supremacist movement, both historically and in modern times.
- Sources
- Blee, Kathleen M. and Elizabeth A. Yates. “Women in the White Supremacist Movement.” The Oxford Handbook of US Women’s Social Movement Activism. New York: Oxford, 2017. McRae, Elizabeth Gillespie. Introduction, Chapter 8 & Conclusion. Mothers of Massive Resistance
- White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.