Searching for Authenticity through Desire: Greek Canadian Women and the Heritage Fling
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Abstract
Among European and North American travellers Greece is well known as a romantic tourist destination. Short-term romances between local Greek men and tourist women remain a common summer occurrence. This chapter examines the sexual relations between Greek men and Greek Canadian women vacationing in Greece. Constructions of Greek Canadian female sexuality bridges foreign and local Greek conceptions of femininity and is a gender category forged in the nostalgic longings of the diaspora. Because of their Greek ancestry, Mediterranean looks, and familiarity with language and culture, Greek Canadian women exhibit ambiguous identities that are often perceived simultaneously through cultural binaries: outsiders/insiders, Other/Greek, dirty/clean, and Eve/Virgin Mary. While on vacation in their ancestral homeland, some Greek Canadian women engage in short term romances as an authentic counter to the incomplete diasporic identity they bring with them from Canada. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, this chapter explores the conception of nostalgia and diasporic identity in Greek women’s desires. It shows how their desire for an experience of ethnic authenticity is challenged by gender relations and class-inflected cultural difference. Local men subvert women’s economic power through challenging their cultural literacy (such as a lack in language skills, etiquette, or sexual knowledge). On the other hand, the women wield their own economic power and sense of freedom because of their connections with the West. The chapter explores constructions of Greek authenticity and gender negotiations in diasporic, cross-class heterosexual desires.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.037 | 0.025 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".