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Teresa Kasperick-Postellon, Ph.D. I am a theatre artist, educator, and scholar working in the fields of Gender Studies and Cultural Studies. I am particularly interested in diverse teaching and learning styles. Students in the Introduction to Women�s Studies courses that I am currently teaching in the USA have been exploring Wikipedia. These students are contributing Wikipedia entries on gender issues; some build on existing stubs, while some are on new topics. This assignment was inspired by the existing project to counter systemic bias in Wikipedia. I welcome your input on this project and invite you to comment on these entries which are listed below. ==Pages to which the students I teach have made contributions== ===Intro to Woman's Studies - Section 6, 2005=== *transfeminism *Women's Professional Football League *Anne Sullivan ===Intro To Woman's Studies - Section 9, 2005=== *Cosmopolitan (magazine) *Congress of the United States **Women in the 109th Congress of the United States of America *Feminine Beauty & the USA Popular Media *Rape on College Campuses *Anemia *Chemical abortion **Medical Abortion

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Hi TK-P, and Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Don't worry if you're unfamiliar with the features and workings of Wikipedia. WP:BB! The most useful page for newcomers is the Wikipedia:Tutorial. Once you are used to editing text, you may want to take a look at the Wikipedia:Picture tutorial. If you do a lot of copyedits, the Wikipedia:Manual of Style will be very useful. Nobody is expected to be familiar with the details of Wikipedia Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines or Wikipedia:Wikiquette right away. However, two basic guidelines that help make Wikipedia successful are: Wikipedia:Neutral point of view and Wikipedia:Civility. Every contribution helps Wikipedia Wikipedia:How to write a great article, while the very best become Wikipedia:Featured articles. Much more information can be found at the Wikipedia:Community Portal. When you want a laugh, drop by the Wikipedia:Unusual articles list. By the way, when on a Wikipedia:Talk page or vote page, you can sign your edit with your username and date stamp by typing four tildes (~~~~). If you have any questions, see the Wikipedia:Help, add a question to the Wikipedia:village pump or ask me on User talk:BanyanTree. Your class project to contribute women's studies articles will be much appreciated. It's great to see that WP:CSB is prompting people to focus on some neglected areas. Again, welcome! - User:BanyanTreeUser:BanyanTreeUser talk:BanyanTree 03:09, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC) Let me second that welcome. I'm looking forward to see you and your students' contributions! Kind regards, User:Mark Dingemanse— User:Mark Dingemanse User Talk:Mark Dingemanse 03:14, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Your new article == I noticed that you had recently written an article Feminine Beauty & the USA Popular Media for Wikipedia. I would like to comment on your piece here, in the spirit of working together to make Wikipedia even better. While I found your article quite interesting -- and I am quite sympathetic to the points you make -- I believe that your article is more of an essay � la Montaigne than an encyclopaedic article. It seems to be, to a certain extent at least, a work of original research. When you write, "Even though women shouldn�t be as caught up with their weight and being thin, it is hard to avoid when a person constantly faces things that make them feel pressured," it is clear that you write as an advocate, and your piece veers towards being an editorial. Are "the expectations set for women today... completely unreal?" Perhaps they are, but this is an opinion. For instance, there has recently been some research that has tentatively suggested that an ultra-low calorie diet (for men and women) can lead to greater longevity as well as greater energy during old age. Also, one could very plausibly argue that with obesity becoming more and more of a problem, not only in the U.S. but worldwide, that social pressure to be thinner is actually positive. These issues are complicated, and as I have said, I am actually rather sympathetic to the opinions that you have expressed here. However, and here is the important thing, they are *opinions*, not facts. Thus, I would kindly suggest a rewrite of your article, in order to make it no longer be a work of original research, to deal with some NPOV problems that show up and to change its tone. --User:Zantastik 23:55, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC) == More remarks == Dr. Kasperick-Postellon, I would like to add a bit to what I said earlier. I think that what you're doing with your students is an excellent idea -- it's innovative ideas like these that make Wikipedia better. However, perhaps it might be good if you told your students a bit more about the style that Wikipedia expects (npov encyclopedia pieces, rather than essays), as I have found some similar problems in other articles your students have contributed. But with these changes, your students' articles are wonderful contributions to Wikipedia, and are badly needed when some of these vitally important topics simply aren't dealt with. User:Zantastik 06:01, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC) Agree with everything said by Zantastik. User:Lotsofissues 16:51, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC) == An anti-feminist conspiracy? == You might be interested in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Blackcats#Biased_articles this] User:210.50.69.1 10:11, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC) ==Rape on college campuses== Hi TKP, I've just done a quick copy edit of the above, but there are quite a few problems remaining with it, many to do with the lack of complete citations. I've left a comment on Talk:Rape on college campuses and I've also inserted some invisible questions in the text. Your input would be much appreciated. Best, User:SlimVirgin ^{User_talk:SlimVirgin} 19:55, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)

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