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Record W2072121338 · doi:10.3138/md.46.3.404

Been There, Done That: Paving the Way for <i>The Vagina Monologues</i>

2003· article· en· W2072121338 on OpenAlex
Shelly Scott

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
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

VenueModern Drama · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicTheatre and Performance Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPoliticsFeminismConsciousnessArtMedia studiesLiteratureAestheticsVisual artsHistorySociologyGender studiesPsychologyLawPolitical science

Abstract

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In her foreword to the "V-Day Edition" of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, Gloria Steinem writes of her initial reaction to seeing Ensler's performance: "I already know this: it's the journey of truth telling we've been on for the past three decades". I shared that reaction as a spectator of the monologues, performed as part of the V-Day College Campaign on university campuses for the past three years, and when I sat in a US$55 seat to watch a professional production in Chicago in 2001. The four performances had only the text in common, but audience reactions were very much the same. The standing ovations, the whistles and yells, and the jubilant atmospheres left me wondering about this newly discovered need to jointly celebrate womanhood. What may initially appear as old-fashioned and redundant to those familiar with feminism's theatrical history in the U.S. strikes many in the general publicas outrageous and innovative, and they can't get enough. Why is such a need still present in these postfeminist days? and What does it signify that the need is being met through theatre (another old-fashioned notion for some)? If, indeed, The Vagina Monologues is merely echoing what early feminist consciousness- raising groups were teaching in the seventies, why has it now become a political sensation unparalleled in American feminist theatre?

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.899
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
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 head0.041
GPT teacher head0.231
Teacher spread0.190 · 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