Bibliographic record
Abstract
In her landmark essay "Thinking Sex," Gayle Rubin states: Dominated for over a century by medicine, psychiatry, and psychology, the academic study of sex has reproduced essentialism.These fields classify sex as a property of individuals.It may reside in their hormones or their psyches.It may be construed as physiological or psychological.But within these ethno-scientific categories, sexuality has no history and no significant social determinants.(1984, pp.275-276) Twenty years later, Rubin's critical observations on the study of sex remain relevant for feminist and queer scholars working in communication studies, even as sexuality has become its own field of inquiry within the humanities and social sciences.The challenge for those engaged in sexuality studies, as Rubin identifies, is to avoid reducing sex into the property of an individual psyche or body.In this positivistic guise, sex becomes an abstract universal variable, diverting attention from its socio-historical dimensions.The papers in this issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication invite readers to understand sexuality as a mode of communicative action in our perverted twist on Jürgen Habermas' famous tomes (1981a; 1981b).Examining sex and sexuality from within the purview of communication points to the erotically charged ways of being, speaking, listening, believing, and doing (Probyn, 1993, p. 2).As practice, sexuality is the site at which pleasure and desire are made manifest between subjects.As discourse, sexuality may act as a lightning rod for debates around what counts as acceptable or imaginable social conduct.In conversation with Judith Butler, Gayle Rubin explicates how sex and sexuality may be understood as a language.As with languages, some people have more gender and erotic flexibility than others.Some can acquire secondary sexual or gender languages, and even fewer will be completely fluent in one position.But most people have a home language, and home sexual or gender comfort zones that will not change much.This does not mean these things are not social, any more than the difficulties of acquiring other languages means that languages are not social.Social phenomena can be incredibly obdurate.(1994, p. 70) Thus, if we think of sexuality as a mode of communicative action, sexuality as discourse and as practice intersects along the historical and spatial particularity of bodies.Before continuing, it is necessary to untangle our terms of reference.Sex simultaneously communicates at least two interrelated notions.On the one hand, sex indicates the multiple practices and forms of erotic and sexual life, from het-
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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 | 0.003 | 0.016 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.009 | 0.010 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.073 | 0.053 |
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".