Theorizing the Sexual Crisis through Journalism and Sexology
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Abstract
After over a decade in Vienna, where she completed her schooling, audited courses at the University of Vienna, and built a reputation for herself as a speaker and a writer, Grete Meisel-Hess made a courageous life change and, as a single woman, picked up and relocated to a completely new urban setting in Berlin. This move made it possible for her to participate in the expanded opportunities available in the German capital city and seek out a lifestyle suited to her personal and professional interests as a New Woman. The initial move took place in 1906, becoming official two years later when she decided to give up her Viennese apartment and transport her remaining belongings to Berlin. During her time in Berlin, Meisel-Hess lived mainly in Charlottenburg, Schöneberg, Friedenau, and Steglitz: municipalities located to the west of Berlin proper that were later incorporated into the growing metropolis of Berlin in 1920. After her move to Berlin, Meisel-Hess became a regular patron of the Café des Westens, known affectionately as the Café Größenwahn (delusions of grandeur café or the café megalomania), on the Kurfürstendamm in Charlottenburg until it closed its doors in 1915. There she engaged in animated discussions with other writers and intellectuals at the time and made networking connections that helped her set herself up as a journalist, such as interacting with Franz Pfemfert, who is known to have founded and edited the literary and political journal Die Aktion in the Café des Westens itself. After living in a number of rooms and boarding houses during her initial years in Berlin, Meisel-Hess eventually secured her own apartment, but she continued to move residences quite frequently in the years following her second marriage, choosing to remain in either Friedenau or Steglitz. It is more than likely that Meisel-Hess was still in a relationship with Victor Tausk when she first moved to Berlin in 1906. Tausk, who had been living in Berlin since the start of the year in 1906, lived on and off in Berlin until he moved back to Vienna in 1908 to study psychoanalysis under Freud, while simultaneously starting his medical studies. His “intermezzo” with Meisel-Hess, as Victor’s spouse Martha Tausk called it, was over for certain by early 1907.
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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 | 0.014 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.058 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.016 | 0.024 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 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".