Bibliographic record
Abstract
Lynda Van Devanter’s politicising the private grief of the mother as a protest against war is employed again in a Vietnam nurse veteran’s response to the First Gulf War. In her poem ‘The Muslim Mother’, Bobbie Trotter takes the images of war beyond American mourning on the home front to include the mourning of ‘the other’. Trotter brings together the iconic Christian image of mother (the Pieta) with ‘the other’ Muslim mother as a way of uniting two opposing cultures in the single image of a mother’s plea against war: ‘The Muslim / mother went / to the grotto / clutching her son’s / picture to her aching breast’. The poem strips away the public and, by implication masculine, rhetoric that divides nations and sends them to war: ‘it wasn’t her faith in Allah / it wasn’t her faith in Jesus / that led her there’. This specific Muslim mother thus becomes the universal image of maternal grief, ‘before the statue / of the Virgin / Mary she fell / prostrate’, through whom Trotter can reject constructions of meaning that sustain the binaries essential to the perpetuation of war. For a mother war can be understood only in terms of personal loss and grief: ‘and begged / mother to / mother / please / end / this / war’ (Van Devanter and Furey (eds)., 1991, p. 180).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.002 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".