Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity (review)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article, a review of Susan Zaeske's Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity, argues that the book makes an important contribution to the ongoing conversations about the role of women in US political culture. Zaeske chronicles the history of petition writing, exploring why it became popular—particularly for women—how its tactics evolved, and the ways in which it affected antebellum reform movements. The book traces the evolution of women's petitions through various political and social sites and finds that through these efforts women made important strides toward securing their own rights and transforming the political identity of woman into that of active national citizen. The essay contextualizes Zaeske's work within scholarship about women and political culture and claims further that the book is the first to combine historiography with rhetorical analysis. Cet article, qui est un compte-rendu de Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity, de Susan Zaeske, soutient que cet ouvrage constitue une contribution importante au discours sur le rôle des femmes dans la culture politique américaine. Zaeske fournit un récit détaillé sur l'histoire des pétitions politiques en explorant les raisons pour lesquelles elles ont été populaires (en particulier chez les femmes), l'évolution des stratégies qu'elles mettent en œuvre et l'influence qu'elles ont eue sur les mouvements de réforme qui ont précédé la guerre de Sécession. Cet ouvrage trace l'évolution des pétitions féminines à travers différents lieux politiques et sociaux, et conclut que, grâce à ces efforts, les femmes ont pu franchir des étapes importantes qui ont servi à garantir leur propres droits, à transformer l'identité politique de la femme et à faire d'elle une citoyenne nationale active. Cet essai situe l'œuvre de Zaeske dans le contexte de la recherche sur les femmes et la culture politique, précisant qu'il s'agit de la première étude en mesure d'associer l'historio-graphie et l'analyse rhétorique.
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".