Briley12

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:59, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

I see you've completed the training modules. Be sure to practice the editing skills--we'll be editing soon!Edw04005 (talk) 23:15, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Project Ideas

~Dorothy Dinnerstein - Dorothy Dinnerstein's article is currently a stub. She has some very interesting ideas in the field of psychology that I would be interested in looking at. I would beef up her bio, talk a little bit more about her ideas in the field, and cite some accomplishments of hers and their influence in the field.

~Men Explain Things to Me - The article on this book is currently a stub. I am interested in it because it is modern and coined the term "mansplaining" which is used frequently on social media today. I would add a bio on the author, more insight of the essays contained in the book, and more reviews from the papers and from the general public.

~Yes Means Yes - The article on this book is currently a stub. Yes Means Yes was largely influential as it encouraged college campuses to be more specific about their terms defining "sexual consent." Right now, the article is just one big block of content. I break it up into a bio of authors, content of the book, influence on school policy, and public reception of the ideas.

I plan on working with Jackie Parent in class to chose one of these topics and together edit it. Briley12 (talk)

Feedback on Possible Topics

Three good topics. I especially like expanding on the books. You could use book reviews, interview with the authors --- there is a lot of potential there!Edw04005 (talk) 21:14, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Citations

~ Cole, Alyson. "Dorothy Dinnerstein." Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. 1 March 2009. Jewish Women's Archive. (Viewed on March 22, 2016) <http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/dinnerstein-dorothy>

~ Dorothy Dinnerstein; Feminist Writer Was 69. (1992). Retrieved March 22, 2016, from http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/19/obituaries/dorothy-dinnerstein-feminist-writer-was-69.html

~"Dorothy Dinnerstein - Biography" Great Authors of World Literature, Critical Edition Ed. Frank Northen Magill. eNotes.com, Inc. 1997 eNotes.com 22 Mar, 2016 <http://www.enotes.com/topics/dorothy-dinnerstein#biography-biography>

~ George, M. (2012, October 15). Profile. Retrieved March 22, 2016, from http://www.feministvoices.com/dorothy-dinnerstein/ Briley12 (talk) 23:03, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Rough Draft

Dorothy Dinnerstein (April 4, 1923 – December 17, 1992) was an American academic and activist, best known for her book The Mermaid and the Minotaur (1976) (also published in the UK in 1987 as The Rocking of the Cradle and the Ruling of the World). Drawing from elements of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis, particularly as developed by Melanie Klein, Dinnerstein argued that sexism and aggression are both inevitable consequences of child rearing being left exclusively to women.[1] As a solution, Dinnerstein proposed that men and women equally share infant and child care responsibilities.[2] IHer theories were not widely revered at the time they were published (Broughton). Dorothy Dinnerstein was also a feminist, expressing her position by stating that “it's easier for women than for men to see what's wrong with the world that men have run" (DD from Broughton). Biography[edit] Born on April 4th, 1923 in The Bronx, Dinnerstein was raised in a Jewish community with her two parents both being progressive Jews (Cole). Dinnerstein went to Brooklyn College for her undergraduate degree and earned the Ph.D. in psychology from the New School for Social Research in 1951. After graduating from Brooklyn college in 1943, Dinnerstein then started her graduate studies at Swarthmore College earning a PhD in Psychology (Cole). Dinnerstein worked as a research student under the help of Solomon Asch a prominent social psychologist and later recruited Asch and co founded the Institute of Cognitive Studies where she worked at Rutgers University (Cole).A resident of Leonia, New Jersey, she taught at Rutgers–Newark in New Jersey as a professor emeritus of psychology from 1959 until 1989, just three years before her death in Englewood, New Jersey after an automobile accident (Dorothy Dinnerstein). Beyond her work as a professor, Dorothy was well known for her book “The Mermaid and the Minotaur” which became a classic and was later translated into seven languages (Dorothy Dinnerstein). Along with the writing of her book she sparked a major impact in the women’s movement working within the theories of the Freudian mode and made important underlying statements about men having the responsibility to raise children from birth also (Dorothy Dinnerstein). Along with Dinnerstein’s love for teaching and writing she was also had a passion for feminist politics. Dinnerstein was involved in the Seneca Falls Women's Peace Camp and was an active participant (Cole). Before her death in 1992, Dinnerstein was involved in a new project about environmental issues called “Sentience and Survival” which explored the ways in which human cognitive structures interfere with taking appropriate actions (Cole). She was survived by a daughter and two step-daughters.[3] Theories and Contributions In The Mermaid and the Minotaur, Dinnerstein takes a multidisciplinary approach to analyzing the ways in which sexist habits develop out of a society in which childcare is handled chiefly by women. She from the perspective of a micro-sociologist, a feminist, a humanist, an ecologist, and a psychoanalyst (Broughton and Honey). Dinnerstein outlines her theory which recognizes a series of long-term societal consequences that result from women being the sole childcare providers: 1. Women are infantilized and degraded as a result of false perceptions that they are associated with the realm of childhood as opposed to the world of adulthood (Bynum). 2. Women become the scapegoats of adult resentment towards authority figures because they they served as controlling authority figures during childhood (Bynum). 3. Women are blamed for life’s pitfalls because of the early-childhood perception that mom takes care of everything, so if something is wrong, it’s mom’s fault for not making it all right. (Prozan) 4. Men must use sexism and patriarchal means to control resented-authority figures (women) (Bynum). 5. Men are isolated from the world of emotions and interpersonal relations usually associated with childhood, creating an impossible and harmful standard of male infallibility, invincibility, and invulnerability (Bynum). Dinnerstein sums up by saying that while she recognizes that families are already moving toward shared parenting for reasons unrelated to the aforementioned consequences of female-dominated childcare, she wants the increase in shared parenting to be “fortified by full awareness of these considerations. This effort of theirs, moreover, is supported by all the forms of action now being taken toward equity in the economic, political, legal, etc., spheres.” (DD M&M).

Sources: Broughton, J., & Honey, M. (1988). Gender arrangements and nuclear threat: A discussion with Dorothy Dinnerstein. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 8(2), 27-40. Bynum, G. L. (2011). The Critical Humanisms of Dorothy Dinnerstein and Immanuel Kant Employed for Responding to Gender Bias: A Study, and an Exercise, in Radical Critique. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 30(4), 385-402. Cole, Alyson. "Dorothy Dinnerstein." Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. 1 March 2009. Jewish Women's Archive. (Viewed on March 22, 2016) <http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/dinnerstein-dorothy> Dinnerstein, D. (2010). The mermaid and the minotaur. Other Press, LLC. Prozan, C. K. (1992). Feminist psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Jason Aronson. "Dorothy Dinnerstein - Biography" Great Authors of World Literature, Critical Edition Ed. Frank Northen Magill. eNotes.com, Inc. 1997 eNotes.com 22 Mar, 2016 <http://www.enotes.com/topics/dorothy-dinnerstein#biography-biography Dorothy Dinnerstein; Feminist Writer Was 69. (1992). Retrieved March 22, 2016, from http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/19/obituaries/dorothy-dinnerstein-feminist-writer-was-69.html George, M. (2012, October 15). Profile. Retrieved March 22, 2016, from http://www.feministvoices.com/dorothy-dinnerstein/ Briley12 (talk) 14:08, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

Draft updated

Hi Briley12.

I've made some changes to your draft, which may have been caused by copying over material from the current article, Dorothy Dinnerstein into the sandbox, rather than the underlying wikicode. So I've added the old content of the article and the paragraph you appended. I notice that you've gotten some feedback already from another editor (see here) suggesting that you format and edit what you have now so it more in line with other wikipedia articles. That's great advice. Once you do that it is a lot easier for me to help you with other areas.

If you edit on your draft page, User:Briley12/sandbox, you'll be able to use the VisualEditor to add citations inline on the page (rather than as general references), add links to other wikipedia articles and break your content into sections as may be appropriate. It's much easier than editing the same content using the old wiki-code editor on talk pages.

I hope this helps. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:18, 4 April 2016 (UTC)