Worlds Within Worlds: Canadian Women Religious, International Connections, Ecclesiastical Webs and the Secular State
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Abstract
Congregations 2 of women religious, or vowed Christian women in the Roman Catholic and Anglican traditions, can be studied as networks of women, whose numbers include educators leading lives as activists and leaders working for change. This chapter studies Canadian women religious, the first of whom arrived on the shores of North America in 1639. Outsiders (and even some insiders) accepted a stereotypical view of women religious as ‘grey women’ whose lot it was to blend into the background of the Roman Catholic Church, never to emerge as original, challenging or individual. Their habits were designed to make them appear identical and indistinguishable from one another. Some community customs included such practices as identifying their works of art and their publications as authored by ‘a member of the community’. 3 Even some foundational congregational documents, such as the Maxims of Perfection of the seventeenth-century Jesuit priest, Jean-Pierre Médaille, one of the founders of the Sisters of St Joseph, instructed its members to ‘behave in such a manner that your good actions are hidden in time and known to God alone, to appear only in eternity and even never to appear, if God so wills’. 4 Yet, as my own work and the work of current scholars of women religious demonstrates, women religious actively participated as members of networks and built community within their own congregations, across congregations and outside of the convent walls. 5 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.048 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 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".