Bibliographic record
Abstract
The gendering of spaces stands as a crucial factor in constructing an intelligible body in contemporary society. The spatial dichotomy of public and private, workplace and domestic, has its gendered reference to how masculinity and femininity should perform in their lived space. In order to understand how a woman’s sense of dis/location in public and private spaces reflects her self-perception, this thesis, drawing on the approach of feminist geography, takes Margaret Atwood’s first novel, The Edible Woman (1969), as the text to discuss the gendering of spaces in post-war North American society. The first chapter offers an introduction of feminist geographers’ studies on body and space in contemporary western context, followed by a glance of women’s situation in post-war Canada, and a reading of Margaret Atwood’s literary work as social criticism. The second chapter explores the material construction of Marian, the heroine in The Edible Woman, her lived surroundings including her home, workplace, and the public streets. As a 24-year-old single office lady, Marian is uncertain about her female identity, and this confusion reflects on her sense of being entrapped in both private and public spaces. The third chapter focuses on how Marian confronts the patriarchal spatial appropriation through her bodily performance, and finally reclaims a female identity as well as personal space of her own. By rereading Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman into a feminist geographical interpretation, this thesis suggests that this “pro-feminist novel”, as in Atwood’s own words, not only a piece of literary work but also a social text worthy of the study of feminist geography.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.025 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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".