E. Cora Hind’s Feminist Thought: “The Woman’s Quiet Hour” in the Western Home Monthly, 1905–1922
Bibliographic record
Abstract
E. Cora Hind was a turn of the 20th Century ‘First Wave’ feminist who has received little scholarly attention. This is remarkable, since in her time she was known world-wide as the agricultural editor of the Manitoba Free Press where she worked from 1901 until her death in 1942. This paper examines her column, “The Woman’s Quiet Hour” in The Western Home Monthly written from 1905 to 1922. The column provides a rich record of the thoughts of a self-educated intelligent feminist mind which defies easy categorization. Cora Hind was a staunch equity feminist, a union supporter and a resolute advocate for the single working girl. She also often expressed a conventional idealized view of the importance of maternal values. She was an ardent defender of the British Empire and immigrant assimilation, yet opposed discrimination and showed great appreciation of diverse cultural heritages. She was a leading member of conservative middle-class women’s organizations, yet her feminist views became so radical that they likely led to the abrupt end of her column. Hind was a complex and at times contradictory character whose social and political thought can teach us much about her own day as well as today’s feminist heritage.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".