“Hello, Canada! It's fine to have you here”: Canadian Nationhood, Women and Popular Fiction during the Second World War
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Abstract
This paper explores original material from a collection of Canadian mass-market magazines that were intended for a female audience during the Second World War. Of these magazines, Chatelaine and the Canadian Home Journal were the most popular, reaching an estimated audience of one and half million readers each month. For the duration of the War, both periodicals devoted themselves to telling readers about war-related topics, causing both the non-fiction and fiction contents of the magazines to become infused with nationalism. Women were addressed as national subjects and asked to dedicate themselves to the War effort in every aspect of their lives; simultaneously, Canada's relationship with Britain during a time of war was both taken for granted and scrutinized in the articles and romance fiction directed at these women. In order to understand these twin phenomena, I begin by providing a brief overview of the articles, advertising and editorial commentary within the magazines, and then move on to an analysis of the short story, “Lady Going West”. Published in July 1942, the story is a representative example of the fiction circulated by Chatelaine and the Journal from 1939—45. In essence, it combined the conventions of the romance genre (thought to be the preferred genre for female readers) with underlying anxieties about the War in a way that, ostensibly, soothed those anxieties. The story thus communicates much about how the War was imagined through popular fiction, as it explores both women's role within the nation at war and Canada's relationship with the United Kingdom.
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 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".