Rarober4
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Lata Mani
editLata Mani is a feminist writer and filmmaker who was born in Mumbai in 1956 and moved to London in her teen years. She graduated in 1974 from Dehli University with a degree in International Affairs. While working as a media planner in the UK and India, she was drawn to go back to graduate school by the feminist movement of the 1980's in India. She earned her masters from UC Santa in Comparative World History and her PhD in History of Consciousness. Mani continued on to join the faculty at the University of California's Women's Studies Department. [1][1] Rarober4 (talk) 16:39, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
Some of Lata Mani's works include Contentious Traditions, written in 1998, which discusses "Sati" or widow burning in colonial India [2] as well as "Multiple Mediations: Feminist Scholarship in the Age of Multinational Reception" [3], concerning positionality and location and how they can effect knowledge and how it is received.
Peer-review
editWhat does the article do well? Is there anything from your review that impressed you? Any turn of phrase that described the subject in a clear way?
-Your lead section is very clear. I really liked that you went straight to the point. I also liked that you chosesomeone who is not as popular within the feminist movement (you did not focus on hooks, Lorde, etc).
What changes would you suggest the author apply to the article? Why would those changes be an improvement? Make sure to think about reviewing the following sections: Lead, organization, balance, neutral content, sources.
-I would suggest that you add more information to her biography. Why did she go into that field? Did she go through any specific situation/experience that motivated her to take that path? As it relates to organization and the other rules, I would just recommend to add more info and organized it by chronological order, as you have done it already. There is a big gap that lets the audience contemplating what happened in between.
What's the most important thing the author could do to improve the article?
-Tell us why it is important that we know about her or in other words, why should she have a wikipedia page? I know where she got her degrees from but I do not know anything about the feminism that she advocates or her views. Be a little more descriptive of her work. Does she focus on third world feminism? What kind of consciousness? Why is her work important?
Did you notice anything about the article you reviewed that could be applicable to your own article? Let them know!
-I am going to try to have a nice, clear, and direct leading section.