“Should Women Be Amazons?”: Reallocating Masculinity in German Postwar History and <i>Hosenrolle</i>
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Abstract
This study examines early 1950s West German Hosenrolle film to argue that negotiations around the rights to masculinity were critical in postwar reconstruction efforts. The cinematic sub-genre offers a non-heteronormative counterpoint to the discursive reallocation of masculinity that ultimately demanded the emasculation of women, whose sphere of authority had expanded during the war and early postwar years. Analysis of Fritz und Friederike (1952) demonstrates that the feminine masculinity of its protagonist is not pathologized and instead provides a point of resistance to gender norms, patriarchal family structures, and compulsory heterosexuality. Furthermore, the depiction of minority masculinities represented allows for the emergence of feminist, lesbian, and other queer pleasures. However, these films also depict an ambivalence about the new femininity and women’s emasculation. Thus, early 1950s Hosenrolle film captures both the fantasy of empowerment and the pain of gender conformity in the wake of the new conservative postwar politics of gender and sexuality.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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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
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