Challenging the Status Quo: Prudence Heward's Portrayals of Canadian Women from the 1920s to the 1940s.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis analyzes a number of paintings of Canadian women by Prudence Heward (1896 - 1947) and traces the ways in which her art production was an important indicator of a shift in gender relations as she commented on the socio-political position of women within the historical context of Canadian nationalism and the rural to urban population shift from the 1920s to the 1940s. At the same time, Heward's paintings are analyzed to trace proposed relationships between these concerns and the formal changes she incorporated into her works during the years covered by this thesis. The paintings' backgrounds, which had been no more than colour backdrops to the figures in her early years, became increasingly important as she challenged the status quo in which white women were confined and naturalized in their motherhood and care-giver roles and black women were "othered" because of their race. The thesis accomplishes this by comparing Heward's paintings to the Group of Seven, as well as to that by other artists from North America and Europe.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".