Mollies Down Under: Cross-Dressing and Australian Masculinity in Peter Carey's <i>True History of the Kelly Gang</i>
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Abstract
It has become almost ubiquitous now to consider that nationalism is gendered and sexualized, especially in contexts where anticolonial nation building is so intimately tied to the legitimizing of newly independent nation-states. George L. Mosse pointed out in his 1985 work Nationalism and Sexuality 'the many interconnections between modern European nationalism and sexual respectability as well as the development of manliness as a constitutive component of the bourgeois morality that underpinned Western nationalisms.1 M. Jacqui Alexander confirms that an imperative of heterosexual masculinity also holds true for decolonizing nations to the extent that their norms have been shaped by European imperialism.2 Elleke Boehmer further argues that gender forms the formative dimension for the construction of nationhood.3 The links between nationalist and gendered discourses range from the role of women as both biological producers and symbolic icons of ethnic groupings and nations to the deep, horizontal comradeship or fraternity, even homosocial structure of male bonding, constitutive of national identity.4 It is within this critical context that celebrated expatriate Australian writer Peter Carey's novel True History of the Kelly Gang, published in 2000, marks an important challenge to the heteromasculinity of Australian settler nationalism through its disruption of the gendered symbolism of one
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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 | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".