Convent girls, feminism, and community psychology
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This “trinity” of articles in one incorporates reflections by three feminist community psychologists from the Irish Catholic diaspora. Using a narrative approach, we explore the roots of our common commitment to social justice, and the emergence of our feminism from diverse life experiences across four countries, within a shared spiritual tradition. We argue that building inclusive and just communities is impossible without addressing the complexities of our own communities, cultural identities, and spiritual heritages, the latter often underacknowledged within feminism and community psychology. Catholic Ireland in the 19th century was a colonized 1 country that became a colonial power by the export of its people and their religion out of oppression, famine, and poverty to the “new worlds” of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA. Our mixed experiences of internalized dominance as White, English‐speaking members of the “one true Church” and of internalized oppression as Irish Catholic minority women in predominantly Protestant Anglo‐Saxon patriarchal societies resonate in our accounts of the pressures to “do good and be good.” Our stories illustrate commonalities and contradictions between feminism, community psychology, and shifting meanings of spirituality. We offer strategies for harnessing energies and fostering commitment for social change, and examine how understandings of feminism, spirituality, culture, and community might be acknowledged and incorporated into community psychology theory and practice. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 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 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".