Experiences of Modernity: Reading the Female Body in J.G. Sime’s Sister Woman
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Jessie Georgina Sime’s short story collection Sister Woman (1919) explores a tension between the female body as a site of power and sexual freedom, and the female body as constrained and possessed within patriarchy and the heterosexual matrices of marriage and reproduction. Throughout the collection, characters psychologically and physically confront the social (and bodily) ideals of chastity, purity, cleanliness, and youth. In this way Sime presents the female body as a register of the conflicts of modernity. Reading the body in Sime’s writing allows us to identify strategies in Sime’s writing that allow her to depict the “unsayable” aspects of women’s experience of modernity. Recognising such “embodied” experiences enables an engagement with the complexities and contradictions of modernity as experienced by Sime’s female characters, and invites us to reconsider our critical understanding of subjectivity in Sister Woman.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".