Transcribing the corporeal: physical feminism, autobiography and the intermedial
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article will analyse two autobiographies published by British athletes Jessica Ennis and Victoria Pendleton, who won gold medals (in the heptathlon and the keirin, a sprint cycling event, respectively) at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. In the run-up to the Olympics, Ennis and Pendleton were often portrayed by the media as ‘poster girls’ for the British team. Their perceived physical attractiveness was frequently privileged over their athletic achievements, undercutting their physical feminist credentials. The first half of this article considers how the women negotiate their popular representations and seek to conform to norms of feminine comportment and objectifying media constructs. The second half of the article focuses on the potential for the autobiographies to provide counter-narratives to the limiting media representation of the women as icons of beauty. It examines the hitherto neglected roles played by photographs in sporting autobiographies. The autobiographies are read as intermedial and the complex interplay between text and image is analysed to investigate whether it is possible for the athletes to communicate something of their vital physicality through life-writing.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it