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Welcome to the WikiProject Gender Studies! This WikiProject is aimed at improving the quality of articles related to gender studies.

For a list of articles and tasks to contribute to, please see WikiProject Gender Studies/to do.

for alerting all users to AfDs, RfCs, disputes etc.

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Following discussions in January 2007 and further comments in March 2007 it was decided to split this project's original aims and goals - creating a separate Wikiproject for Countering Systemic Gender Bias (CSGB). Until this new project is created a sub-page for CSGB has been created here.

Project overview

Observation suggests that males are over-represented on Misplaced Pages, though there has not been a proper survey to back this up. The aim of this Project is to correct any systematic gender bias on Misplaced Pages. If you're interested, add your name to the list of contributors!

Aims of this project

1. To create and/or improve articles associated with gender studies, gender theories and gender issues (including feminisms, masculinisms, feminists and transgender issues).
2. To maintain a gender neutral language (where appropriate) in line with the neutral point of view policy.
3. To create a thriving WikiProject.
4. To bring every gender studies related article up to featured article status.
5. To ensure that internal organisation of gender studies articles is consistent.
6. To maintain and improve articles within Misplaced Pages's neutral point of view policy.

What this project is not

1. This project does not extol any point of view, political or otherwise, other than that of a neutral documentarian.
2. This project does not seek to write essay-style critiques of articles about gender-related topics.
3. This project does not limit itself to European/North American issues.
4. This project is not a space for writing feminist, masculinist or LGBT critiques of society.
5. This project does not seek to introduce any bias (to either articles, or Misplaced Pages in general), rather, it aims to improve the quality of articles, which deal with gender and gender studies, within the neutral point of view policy.
6. This project is not a vehicle for self-promotion (see confict of interest and verifiablity policies).

How do I help?

Glad you asked! Feel free to sign up under contributors. If you come across an article which either needs attention, or alternatively that doesn't exist (even though it should), add it to the lists under "Requested articles", "Requests for expansion", or "Requests for review/attention" headings. If articles under those headings seem mature enough to no longer need attention, feel free to clean them off the list. If there are categories or templates you come across on Misplaced Pages which may be of interest to contributors of this project, feel free to add them under "Useful Categories" or "Useful Templates". You can also 'adopt' an article, or use the Discussion page to discuss issues relating to Gender Studies on Misplaced Pages. Finally, beyond Misplaced Pages, some contributors of this project are working on a Wikibook (textbook) on Feminism at Wikibooks (available here, feel free to contribute).

Project contributors

• AmishThrasher 03:01, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
• Seth Mahoney 02:06, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
• Revolución (talk) 03:06, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
• Sarge Baldy 23:08, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
• An An 01:59, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
• Ilessthan3you 21:51, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
• Ambi 13:52, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
• DinoMo 00:04, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
• Romarin 20:50, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
• jessicanr 19 April 2006
• clm17 13:23, 26 May 2006
• Julia528 23:44, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
• Chuchunezumi 02:16, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
• CaveatLector 22:05, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
• Lquilter 13:23, 24 October 2006 (UTC) (particularly interested in addressing underrepresentation of entries about women, and female wikipedians)
• Mgoodyear 00:51, 18 December 2006 (UTC)(History of feminism, Feminism, Brassiere and subarticles)
• Hannahlima 19:15, 22 December 2006 (UTC) Mariana Lima
• Cailil
• futurebird 01:43, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
• ronnycary 04:33, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
• Awadewit 13:34, 5 March 2007 (UTC) I am particularly interested in contributing articles about women from the eighteenth century.
• scribblingwoman (talk) 15:04, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
• FemWriter
• Ecarin 12:22, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
• Cowpepper 15:01, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Userbox

There is a userbox available for members of this project:

This user is a participant in WikiProject Gender studies.

{{User_WikiProject_Gender_Studies}}

Departments

To Do List

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject_Gender_Studies/to_do

Assessment & Peer Review

A main task of the Project Gender Studies is to assess the quality of Misplaced Pages's Gender Studies articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to help in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work. This also plays a role in the WP:1.0 program, which the WikiProject uses to help automate some of the assessing process.

It is easiest if you simply tag and assess articles as you come across or edit them, though you can go through Category:Gender studies if you wish. To find out more, see Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Gender Studies/Assessment.

Collaboration

Project Gender Studies runs frequent collaborations to encourage as much of the Project as possible to use their editing skills to bring one article up to Featured Article standard a month. See Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Gender Studies/Collaboration for more information.

Translation

If you have another language besides English, please consider adding your name to our List of Translators. A list of articles for translation is here

Countering Systemic Gender Bias

A temporary department for the nascent Countering Systemic Gender Bias. Created after it was decided to split Project Gender Studies in Spring 2007.

Barnstar Award

There is an official Gender studies barnstar for anyone who has made significant contributions to Gender studies articles:

The Gender studies barnstar is awarded to editors who make significant contributions to Gender studies articles, categories or portals and expanding Misplaced Pages’s knowledge about gender, gender theory, feminisms, masculinities or sexuality studies.

approved Wednesday 21 Feb, 2007

Useful Resources

Categories

• Category:Gender studies
• Category:Feminism
• Category:feminists
• Category:Women's universities and colleges in the United States
• Category:Modernist women writers
• Category:Feminism stubs

Templates

• {{WikiProject Gender Studies}}
• {{WikiProject Gender Studies Tasks}}
• {{User WikiProject Gender Studies}}
• {{WikiProject Gender Studies Navigation}}
• {{WikiProject Gender Studies Tasks}}
• {{WikiProject Gender Studies Collaboration}}
• {{WikiProject Gender Studies Invitation}}

Stubs

• {{Fem-stub}}
• {{Gender-studies-stub}}

Other

• Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:WikiProject_Gender_Studies
• Wikibooks:Feminism

Current tasks

• WikiProject Gender Studies/to do

To-do list for WikiProject Gender studies: Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Assess : see Unassessed Gender studies articles and Unknown-importance Gender studies articles Cleanup : edit to see Collaborate : see /Collaboration Copyedit : edit to see Deletion sorting : see /Sexuality and gender Expand : edit to see Infobox : see Gender studies articles needing infoboxes Merge : edit to see Notability : edit to see NPOV : edit to see Orphans : Brannon Masculinity Scale · Holy Virility · Media and gender · Michael Kaufman (author) · Women's education in Saudi Arabia Photo : see Misplaced Pages requested photographs of gender studies Split : History of feminism Stubs : see Gender studies stubs Translate : see /translation Update : edit to see Verify : Riot grrrl Needs attention : see Gender studies articles needing attention

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