One Step over the Line: Toward a History of Women in the North American Wests. Ed. by Elizabeth Jameson and Sheila McManus. (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2008. xxviii, 446 pp. Paper, $34.95, ISBN 978-0-88864-501-2.)
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Abstract
What is a boundary crossing but one step over a line? More than that, according to editors Elizabeth Jameson and Sheila McManus and the sixteen authors in this timely anthology of essays that traverse the American and Canadian Wests. The collection is an outgrowth of a June 2002 University of Calgary conference, “Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West through Women's History,” which sought to “generate conversations that would link and compare the histories of the women of western North America and the women whose journeys crossed the borderlands of the Canadian and American Wests” (p. xiv). The ninety-five presentations there provided rich material for conversations across boundaries and disciplines; the chapter contributors to One Step over the Line come from Canada, the United States, and Britain and cross academic generational lines. Even in more than four hundred pages, One Step over the Line cannot discuss all of the topics and issues relevant to the experiences of women in the Canadian and American Wests. But the very presence of such a book will be welcomed by those who regularly teach classes on the West, especially in the field of women's history. While the U.S.-Mexican boundary has yielded a rich array of materials on border topics, academics have yet to tap the U.S.-Canadian border relationship. This anthology is an attempt to stimulate further scholarship that uses comparative and transnational frameworks.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.026 | 0.004 |
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".