Competitive Pleasure: Sexuality, Media and Belonging in a Reunifying Germany (1989-1995)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
After the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9 th , 1989, the process towards the Reunification of East and West Germany became referred to as a matter of "political orgasm," "German-German copulation" or "an orgiastic party."Behind these colourful metaphors, residents of the two states (in particular, those of East Germany) contended with momentous shifts in identity, mobility and political ideology that interacted with public sexual values and culture.This thesis analyzes media-based primary sources, including magazines, newspapers, and tabloids as well as memoirs and televised broadcasts, to argue that sex and sexuality became a significant public matrix for complex processes of inclusion, exclusion and meaning making during the transition to a reunified Germany and beyond.In doing so, this thesis engages with relationships between consumerism and public space, memory politics, and the sexual/racial "Other".Dr. Susan Whitney for her enthusiasm towards my project and belief in my abilities.Thank you to Dr. Paul Nelles for providing a supportive environment within the
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
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.
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".