Effecting Change through Literature: Die Intellektuellen (1911)
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Abstract
Meisel-Hess’s sexological treatise Die sexuelle Krise: Eine sozialpsychologische Untersuchung (The Sexual Crisis: A Social-Psychological Investigation, 1909) not only locates the New Woman at the forefront of societal transformation but also characterizes the New Woman writer as a positive instigator of change through her ability to envision the world differently. This essential and uncompromising envisaging, according to Meisel-Hess, includes the representation of women in fiction: “Die Literatur, die vorbildlich und formenbildend auf das Leben wirkt (voraus wirkt), wird eingedenk eines neuen elementaren und dennoch durchaus lebensfördernden Frauentypes, der schon da ist und noch deutlicher werden wird, es lernen müssen, den Erdgeist seiner gefährlichsten Requisiten zu entkleiden und ihm die bauende Kraft des Weibes zuzugestehen” ( SK 148; Literature, which exercises a constructive or formative influence upon life, must learn from the study of a new type of woman, elemental and yet life-giving, a type that already exists and is destined soon to become more pronounced—must learn to divest the earth-spirit of its most dangerous qualities and to endow it with all the constructive energies of womanhood: SC 139; translation modified for clarity). These modern depictions of the New Woman in literature, she claims, would challenge and destabilize standard representations of women as either femmes fatales or femmes fragiles and would portray women as “führend, rettend, reinigend” ( SK 148; leading, rescuing, purifying). For Meisel-Hess, it is the ardent woman who is best able to make these substantial, groundbreaking changes in literature and research, through her ability to anticipate what is to come: “Das inbrünstige Weib in Kunst und Forschung ist Trägerin und Deuterin der Ahnung” ( SK 272; In art and in research the ardent woman is the receiver and interpreter of intuitions; SC 240). In Die sexuelle Krise , Meisel-Hess not only sets out to influence the emerging interdisciplinary field of sexual science through her feminist interventions but also reserves space in her sexological study for feminist literary analyses. She writes that literature by women has often led to important societal reckonings, citing Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) and Nobel Laureate Bertha von Suttner’s Die Waffen nieder (1889, Lay Down Your Arms , 1892) as catalysts for the anti-slavery movement and the international peace movement respectively ( SK 269).
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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 | 0.006 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.044 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.011 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".