<i>Containing Childhood: Space and Identity in Children’s Literature</i> edited by Danielle Russell
Bibliographic record
Abstract
middle-class childhood innocence (112).Austin observes how artefacts reinforced the 'larger culture narrative of the decade that Black [female] bodies must be regulated and white [female] bodies educated' (112).In addition to summarizing anxieties about race and reproduction, this chapter analyses how monstrosity is linked to queerness, homosexuality, and 'queer' families.Austin claims that monster texts and cultural artefacts offer children symbolic methods to enact the cultural changes feared by parental/societal institutions.In Austin's conclusion, Monsters, Inc. is used to demonstrate that identification with the monstrous empowers childhood resistance, suggesting that adults need to stop fearing children so children can contribute openly to culture.Sara Austin's book argues that monstrous fiction teaches that 'no matter how much force a ruling body exerts on its populace, children's opinions will not mirror those of adults' (149).Societal and adult attempts to support the status quo will be undermined by young people as they subvert attempts to police them by mobilising popular culture and economic agency to enact the changes 'the monstrous' opens to them.The notion of the monstrous has been enormously influential in shaping society's ideas about what is normal and typical, but it also opens space for new ways to understand gender, sexuality, and social belonging.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".