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Record W4253503606 · doi:10.1086/667197

Practice Mothers

2012· article· en· W4253503606 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueSigns · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHistorical Gender and Feminism Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProfessionalizationScholarshipIdeologySociologyArgument (complex analysis)Gender studiesNarrativeWelfareSocial sciencePolitical scienceMedicineLawPolitics

Abstract

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During the first half of the twentieth century, “practice houses,” or home management houses, thrived in home economics departments of land-grant universities around North America. Practice houses were domestic settings where young women could get hands-on training and experience in all the latest methods and technologies to efficiently manage domestic space and activity. They were also part of a larger trend of professionalization of home economic activities, intimately related to scientific rhetoric. This article discusses the Department of Home Economics’ practice house at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, where during the 1930s and 1940s, thirty-three “borrowed” children (from the city’s department of child welfare), referred to as practice babies, were tended to by a monthly rotation of women students who themselves were supervised by a house mother. The article situates the practice babies at the intersection of two historical trajectories, that of home economics itself and that of child-rearing advice, and draws attention to the ways in which the babies, and the women who cared for them, were mutually and jointly gendered. The narrative of the rise and fall of the practice babies in Winnipeg contributes to the literature on changing ideologies of scientific motherhood with an argument for feminist scholarship to develop a more ethnographically grounded linkage of children to women.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.988
Threshold uncertainty score0.510

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.064
GPT teacher head0.373
Teacher spread0.309 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it