Bibliographic record
Abstract
Citation (2022), "Crone", Rumson, L. and Bentham, A. (Ed.) Divergent Women (Emerald Interdisciplinary Connexions), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 139-139. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80117-678-120221015 Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited Copyright © 2023 Lorraine Rumson and Abby Bentham. Published under exclusive licence by Emerald Publishing Limited The most frightening woman of all, the wicked witch, the cackling hag, the destructive, devouring harbinger of impending death. The particular spite reserved for the crone stands at the intersection of misogyny and ageism, a corollary of the expectation that women should be young, beautiful and fertile, and a product of the modern world's deep discomfort with any reminder of human mortality. The aging woman, as Naomi Govreen points out, must accept ‘the necessity of loss and death’, and those who encounter her must as well. Yet there is an additional cloak of anxiety hanging over the crone. Women at this stage of life, facing ‘the inevitable destruction or dissolution that must precede regeneration’ (Gadon, 1989, p. 29), can also find themselves freed from responsibilities to the standards of patriarchal propriety that constrain the maiden and the mother. For what should we be innocent, self-denying, fuckable, breedable, when we stand on the brink of earth-churning change? With age come ever more opportunities to develop wisdom, self-acceptance and self-actualisation – characteristics that profoundly threaten patriarchal power structures. Naomi Govreen and Catherine Jenkins offer defences, both emphatic and empathetic, of women whose age, stage and departure from patriarchal goals have inspired terror as well as fascination from the very patriarchal power structures that they undermine. Reference Gadon, 1989 Gadon, E. (1989). The once and future goddess: A symbol for our time. San Francisco, CA: Harper and Row Publishers. Book Chapters Prelims Chapter 1 Introduction: Grasping the Broomstick, Cutting the Umbilical Cord Section 1 Maiden Chapter 2 Portrait of the Monster as a Young Girl – An Interactive Dialogue Chapter 3 Spiteful Spirits: Projection and Blaming in Women's Lives and Mother-Daughter Narratives Chapter 4 Witch Hunt – The Media's Obsession With One Infamous Canadian Section 2 Mother Chapter 5 The Paradox of Female Villainy in Mary Robinson's Walsingham and Charlotte Smith's the Young Philosopher Chapter 6 Resubjectivation of the Female Voice in Eunsung Kim's My Mother's Story Chapter 7 Off With Their Wombs! Cultural Representations of Women's Rebellion Against Motherhood Chapter 8 Beyond Mandatory Motherhood: How Childfree Women Use Digital Spaces to Redefine Womanhood Section 3 Crone Chapter 9 All About Snow White's Mother Chapter 10 Forgiving European Witches: The Case for Pardons and Memorials Index
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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 | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.712 | 0.657 |
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".