Forget-Me-Nots: Victorian Women, Mourning, and the Construction of a Feminine Historical Memory
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Abstract
A study of the Royal Ontario Museum's mourning collection suggests that middle- and upper-middle-class Victorian women used the rituals and accoutrements of this practice to establish and disseminate a meamngful feminine identity and accessible historical memory. Through the transformation of their homes and bodies into sites of memory in honour of friends and family, women were able to realize a myth-making space outside of formal, public commemorative rituals and male-dominated historical discourse. Mourning customs also served as a feminine ritual that allowed forthe validation and transfer of women's traditional skills, knowledge, and sense of self In the process of exploring the shifting meanings of mourning objects in women's lives, particular attention is paid to the experiences of Canadian women. Resume Une etude de la collection sur le deuil du Musee royal de l'Ontario suggere qu'a l'epoque victorienne, les femmes des classes moyennes inferieure et superieure utilisaient les rituels et attributs de cette pratique pour etablt et diffuser une identite feminine significative et une memoire historique accessible. En transformant leur foyer et leur corps en memorial de leurs proches, les femmes etaient en mesure de creer un espace mythique en dehors des rituels publics officiels de commemoration et du discours historique a predominance masculine. Les coutumes de deuil servaient aussi de rituel feminin permettant la validation et le transfert des competences traditionnelles, des connaissances et du sentiment d'identite des femmes. Le processus d'exploration des significations changeantes des objets de deuil dans l'existence des femmes accorde une attention particuliere aux experiences vecues parles Canadiennes.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 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) | 0.001 | 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".