Care and the Bodily Identity of the Urban besogneuse in Gabrielle Roy’s Bonheur d’occasion
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Abstract
This article presents Gabrielle Roy’s 1945 novel Bonheur d’Occasion as a reading of the female literary body that contributed to nascent changes in feminine literary subjectivity in Quebec’s cultural texts leading up to the Quiet Revolution, and one that provides a critical approach to a matrix of meaning that has been largely overlooked in studies of the novel and of Quebec’s fiction at large: namely, that of love, labor, and the body in the emerging urban setting. Establishing subjectivity as necessarily corporeal, the article demonstrates that by examining the configurations, movements, and ornamentation of the female body-subject in Gabrielle Roy’s Bonheur d’Occasion , a careful reader will note that Roy’s female protagonists, Rose-Anna and Florentine, begin to move away from their position as mere objects of the male gaze and as commodities in “l’ordre de la production” of which male habitants were the proprietors (Boynard-Frot 126). This shift toward literary women’s subjectivity is effected by means of what I define as care, that is, the convergence of love and labor, or affect and duty. Female body-subjects in Roy’s work are portrayed as inter -subjects, finding meaning and authenticity when their labor is marked by affect linking them to a loved one. When their actions and desires are out of alignment, both body and subjectivity deteriorate, signaled by mechanization and disfigurement.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.032 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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".