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Feminist theory seeks to provide frameworks for understanding the past, present, and future of our world. Theory can explain what we observe, enabling us to better understand what we struggle against or hope for. Feminist scholars center gender and related social categories to develop theories that move us from ideas that unreflexively privilege some forms of knowing to frameworks that grapple directly with the limits of knowledge production. In this course, we delve into critical works that have informed the development of Gender and Women’s Studies as a field. The mix of authors is intended to provoke your understanding of feminist theory as multiple, contested, and overlapping. We ask questions including: 1) How do feminist theorists account for the diversity of women’s experiences? 2) What are the different political commitments of feminist theories? 3) How can we read social movement narratives through feminist theory? And 4) What are the politics of representation in the creation and circulation of feminist theories? This course seeks to enable you to navigate the range of political approaches to gender and women’s studies as you develop your own relationship to the field. Our assignments familiarize you with feminist theory frameworks through helping develop your understanding, interpretation, and usage of concepts.
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.
This page breaks down writing a Wikipedia article into a series of steps, or milestones. These steps include online trainings to help you get started on Wikipedia.
Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Content Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page.
To get started, please review the following handouts:
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article, and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.
Now that you're thinking about what makes a "good" Wikipedia article, consider some additional questions.
It's time to start moving forward with your research.
Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a citation to your article.
You've picked a topic and found your sources. Now it's time to start writing.
Creating a new article?
Improving an existing article?
Keep reading your sources, too, as you prepare to write the body of the article.
Resources:
Editing Wikipedia pages 7–9
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. It's time to work with that feedback to improve your article!
Once you've made improvements to your article based on peer review feedback, it's time to move your work to Wikipedia proper - the "mainspace."
Editing an existing article?
Creating a new article?
Do additional research and writing to make further improvements to your article, based on suggestions and your own critique.
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Content Expert at any time if you need further help!
It's the final week to develop your article.
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.
This Course
|
Wikipedia Resources
|
Connect
Questions? Ask us:
contact |
![]() | This course page is an automatically-updated version of the main course page at dashboard.wikiedu.org. Please do not edit this page directly; any changes will be overwritten the next time the main course page gets updated. |
Feminist theory seeks to provide frameworks for understanding the past, present, and future of our world. Theory can explain what we observe, enabling us to better understand what we struggle against or hope for. Feminist scholars center gender and related social categories to develop theories that move us from ideas that unreflexively privilege some forms of knowing to frameworks that grapple directly with the limits of knowledge production. In this course, we delve into critical works that have informed the development of Gender and Women’s Studies as a field. The mix of authors is intended to provoke your understanding of feminist theory as multiple, contested, and overlapping. We ask questions including: 1) How do feminist theorists account for the diversity of women’s experiences? 2) What are the different political commitments of feminist theories? 3) How can we read social movement narratives through feminist theory? And 4) What are the politics of representation in the creation and circulation of feminist theories? This course seeks to enable you to navigate the range of political approaches to gender and women’s studies as you develop your own relationship to the field. Our assignments familiarize you with feminist theory frameworks through helping develop your understanding, interpretation, and usage of concepts.
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.
This page breaks down writing a Wikipedia article into a series of steps, or milestones. These steps include online trainings to help you get started on Wikipedia.
Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Content Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page.
To get started, please review the following handouts:
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article, and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.
Now that you're thinking about what makes a "good" Wikipedia article, consider some additional questions.
It's time to start moving forward with your research.
Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a citation to your article.
You've picked a topic and found your sources. Now it's time to start writing.
Creating a new article?
Improving an existing article?
Keep reading your sources, too, as you prepare to write the body of the article.
Resources:
Editing Wikipedia pages 7–9
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. It's time to work with that feedback to improve your article!
Once you've made improvements to your article based on peer review feedback, it's time to move your work to Wikipedia proper - the "mainspace."
Editing an existing article?
Creating a new article?
Do additional research and writing to make further improvements to your article, based on suggestions and your own critique.
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Content Expert at any time if you need further help!
It's the final week to develop your article.
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.