Dominating discourses, imposing ideologies : embodiment and femininity in a Canadian young adult literature trilogy
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis project identifies and analyzes a series of intersecting dominant social discourses of contemporary girlhoods in Susan Juby's Canadian Young Adult Literature (YAL) trilogy titled Alice, I Think.Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is employed to illustrate the ways in which the protagonist is depicted as constructing her subjectivity through such discourses and the often oppressive ideologies they reinforce.Focusing in particular on femininity as it has been defined and theorized by feminist post-structuralism, the thesis project shows how the protagonist comes to embody those discourses through which she is constructed and constructs her sense of self.The concept of embodiment is central to this project insofar as it is used as a means to investigate this often contradictory and complex relationship between discourse and bodily-determined and inscribed identity.This thesis project also attempts to demystify and challenge the ideological messages that are reinforced and normalized through discourse within the trilogy.It argues that while the Alice, I Think trilogy purposefully calls attention to and acknowledges the oppressive and gendered ideas that these discourses construct and promote, it does not challenge in any meaningful sense the ways in which they privilege some girls and exclude others.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.007 | 0.010 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.058 | 0.029 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.020 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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".