‘Forget about them’: The invisible and fashionable Muslim women of Sex and the City
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The critically acclaimed television series Sex and the City aired for six seasons between 1998 and 2004. The programme, however, has been criticized for its promotion of heteronormativity and lack of racial diversity, a criticism that was maintained for the sequel to the first film, Sex and the City 2, in which the four main characters take a trip to the United Arab Emirates, was panned by critics for its Orientalism. In a scene towards the end of the film, the Muslim women save the American women from religious Muslim men in the marketplace. In this sequence, the Muslim women bring the American women into a room where they unveil themselves to reveal Louis Vuitton designer clothing under their abayas. Following this scene, the American characters wear abayas in order to escape. This scene corresponds to Mikhail Bakhtin’s ‘carnivalesque’, in which traditional conventions are reversed and the characters behave outside their normative framework. However, I argue that in this context, such a masquerade fails to accomplish a reversal because of the underlying dominant colonialist power structures.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.023 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".