‘Prime Minister in the Home Department’: Female Gendered Identity in Colonial Upper Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This chapter constitutes a close reading of the diaries and letters of Anne Langton (b.1804), a gentlewoman settler who migrated from Britain to colonial Upper Canada (what is now the province of Ontario) in the 1830s. Focusing on Anne's writings from her first ten years in Upper Canada, it considers how her sense of self, particularly her gendered identity, was challenged by the practices and daily routine of this new life. Notions of feminine gentility Anne brought with her were not always compatible with the nature of colonial society, and it is these discrepancies that will be explored. It is argued that Anne immersed herself in arranging and decorating the family’s new home according to dominant notions of civility and comfort in the hopes of resolving these conflicts. What is more, the act of writing about these activities, describing them in detailed letters to relatives in Britain, were fundamental to this process. This assessment draws on a variety of secondary literature and theoretical frameworks, principally those that sit at the intersection of gender studies and women's history, colonial and post-colonial studies and material culture studies.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.062 | 0.024 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.001 |
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".