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Record W1842453234

The Science, Fiction, and Science Fiction of Unsex Mothering

2012· article· en· W1842453234 on OpenAlex
I. Glenn Cohen

Why this work is in the frame

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueDigital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicReproductive Health and Technologies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDystopiaEthnic groupVisionScholarshipSet (abstract data type)SociologyNormativeGender studiesHierarchyPsychologyAestheticsPolitical scienceAnthropologyArtLaw
DOInot available

Abstract

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In her novel Woman on the Edge of Time, the Canadian Feminist writer Marge Piercy’s protagonist, Connie Ramos, incarcerated in a mental institution, time travels to a set of possible futures that reflect utopian and dystopian visions of social make-up. Among other things, the more utopian possible future world has embraced many of the ideas explored by Darren Rosenblum’s Unsex Mothering: sex roles, gender hierarchy, and motherhood as we know it have been eliminated; children are no longer born by women, but instead incubated in a “brooder” and raised by three genetically unrelated “co-mothers,” at least two of whom, regardless of their sex, take hormones allowing them to nurse such that even men breast feed. Ethnic and cultural heritage too has been reconfigured and distributed geographically, such that all citizens of a particular city regardless of their ethnic backgrounds follow the Native American ways, while another city might follow the ways of a different cultural or ethnic background. I think of Rosenblum’s fascinating paper as beginning the legal scholarship twin project to Piercy’s novel. In this short response, I want to use science fiction to examine a set of possible future worlds with various kinds of unsexed motherhood and press Rosenblum on the normative criteria by which one might choose between them, something his article does not focus on.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.322
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.003
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0010.007
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.036
GPT teacher head0.288
Teacher spread0.252 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it