Bibliographic record
Abstract
This chapter charts the evolution of queer spaces, and feminist writing and rhetoric in the literary landscape in Canada following the clinical redefining of homosexuality in the 1970s. It is within this context that Jane Rule’s work emerged, including her reception and contributions, both political and literary. The chapter further traces Rule’s most groundbreaking publications, such as The Desert of the Heart (1964), Lesbian Images (1975) , and Themes for Diverse Instruments (1975) , as well as her contributions to The Writer’s Union of Canada and the gay activist movement. Part of the discussion involves censorship issues in Canada, namely The Body Politic ’s legal disputes, including police raids and the Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada (Minister of Justice) trial. The period is also characterized by other prominent lesbian authors, such as Nicole Brossard, Erín Moure, Daphne Marlatt, Betsy Warland, Sina Queryas, and Anne-Marie MacDonald, who encouraged the creation of a feminist discourse in academic and literary spheres. Such tenants were espoused by various women authors and publications in Canada, including Tessera and [f.]Lip , in the latter half of the twentieth century.
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.051 | 0.018 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.017 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.001 |
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".