Child of the State, Mother of the Nation: Aboriginal Women and the Ideology of Motherhood
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Abstract
Around the world, in revolutions, periods of social reform, anti-colonial struggles and in international warfare, images of the mother have come to represent political aspirations. However common this phenomenon, is the meanings attributed to motherhood and the symbols employed to venerate it are constituted in the specificity of political struggles. In this paper I analyze the discourse of motherhood as constructed by aboriginal women of Canada in their struggle for self-determination and full citizenship in First Nations, looking at two discrete yet interrelated themes: the absence of patriarchal appropriation of motherhood symbols as found elsewhere among colonized peoples and the distinct development of motherhood symbols in women’s own political culture. By doing so, I hope to illuminate processes by which women produce moral accounts of themselves as mothers and in the process generate metaphors of motherhood that come to stand for aboriginal female identity. Finally, I conclude with an analysis of the failure of the motherhood discourse to alter First Nations’s women’s political subordination.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it