Mothers of Heroes, Mothers of Martyrs: World War I and the Politics of Grief
Bibliographic record
Abstract
High on Vimy Ridge stands the figure of a hooded mother in mourning, sculpted by Walter Allward as part of his winning design for the national memorial to the 67,000 Canadian dead of the Great War. Behind the ‘Spirit of Canada’, as she is known, rise twin art deco columns at the base of which a falling soldier incarnates the ‘spirit of sacrifice’ as he passes the flame to his comrades. The monument, which Suzanne Evans discusses in her last chapter, sums up the theme of her cultural essay on the relationship between motherhood and martyrdom. At once Canadian and universal, the book moves sometimes uneasily between the two dimensions, plotting the role that mothers both assumed and were assigned in the process of coming to terms with the mass death of young Canadians in a distant land, while seeking parallels with mothers of other martyrs in other settings—from early Judaism, Christianity and Islam to Sikhism, the IRA in the 1980s and the Palestinian Intifadas. The result is stimulating and full of insight but ultimately unsatisfactory. The other examples are dealt with too summarily to develop the general argument, the more so since they are restricted to mythic and religious narratives rather than to the lived dilemmas of real women (except in the fleeting Irish and Palestinian references).
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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 | 0.002 |
| 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 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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".