Barbie Meets the Bindi: Discursive Constructions of Health Among Young South-Asian Canadian Women
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Stereotypes emphasizing passivity, docility and uncleanliness all contribute to cultural \n(mis)understandings of Canadian women of South-Asian background. Such understandings are a \npart of dominant racist discourses, including “bodily” discourses related to health. This paper focuses \non the discursive constructions of health among ten young, second-generation South-Asian Canadian \nwomen from the Ottawa and Toronto areas. In this qualitative study, feminist postcolonialism and \npoststructuralism are used as a lens through which we analyse and interpret the transcripts of \nconversations with these women. The results highlight these young women’s discursive constructions \nof health and particularly how racialized and gendered notions of ‘looking good’ constitute a crucial \nelement in their understanding of what it is to be ‘healthy.’ We discuss and conclude on how these \nyoung women locate themselves as un/healthy subjects within larger cultural discourses of traditional \n(white) femininity, heteronormativity and consumption.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.026 | 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 teacher head, 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".