Review of Oleksandra Wallo. Ukrainian Women Writers and the National Imaginary: From the Collapse of the USSR to the Euromaidan.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
From the Collapse of the USSR to the Euromaidan is a timely contribution to the development of the critical discourse on gender and women writers in Ukrainian literature. Wallo not only analyzes influential works by the first post-Soviet cohort of Ukrainian women writers but also paves a path toward the understanding of a unique, Ukrainian version of feminism that is closely interlinked with the ideas of nation. Wallo addresses the prose of three major female authors-Oksana Zabuzhko, Ievheniia Kononenko, and Mariia Matios-who started writing just before the collapse of the Soviet Union; afterward, they were known as visimdesiatnyky (writers of the 1980s). The literary voice of Zabuzhko is at the core of Wallo's study, occupying five of the six chapters, with two chapters dedicated (almost exclusively) to her writing. This is not surprising, as Zabuzhko's pioneering novel Pol'ovi doslidzhennia z ukrains'koho seksu: Roman (Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex: A Novel, 1996) tends to the same subject that Wallo's monograph ponders-"how a Ukrainian woman could write at all" (5). Wallo is meticulous in depicting the challenges grounded in both politics and patriarchy that were faced by women writers in Soviet Ukraine despite the presumed liberation promised by the Soviet regime and experienced by female literati in the metropolitan core (that is, Moscow). Wallo explains such challenges by engaging an array of scholarship on gender and race, first and foremost Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's seminal essay on the double silencing of subaltern women in the (post-)colonial world ("Can the Subaltern Speak?").
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".