Review: <i>Single Mothers and the State’s Embrace: Reproductive Agency in Vietnam</i>, by Harriet M. Phinney
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Abstract
Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: Single Mothers and the State’s Embrace: Reproductive Agency in Vietnam, by Harriet M. Phinney Harriet M. Phinney, Single Mothers and the State’s Embrace: Reproductive Agency in Vietnam.Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022. 236 pages. $105.00 (hardcover), $32.00 (paperback). Thuy ThiThanh Do Thuy ThiThanh Do Simon Fraser University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Vietnamese Studies (2023) 18 (4): 130–133. https://doi.org/10.1525/vs.2023.18.4.130 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Thuy ThiThanh Do; Review: Single Mothers and the State’s Embrace: Reproductive Agency in Vietnam, by Harriet M. Phinney. Journal of Vietnamese Studies 1 November 2023; 18 (4): 130–133. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/vs.2023.18.4.130 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Vietnamese Studies Search In Single Mothers and the State’s Embrace: Reproductive Agency in Vietnam, Harriet M. Phinney examines what leads single women in northern Vietnam to “ask for a child,” or ask for a man to engage in sexual relations for the purpose of conception [xin con]. In response to single women’s desire for reproductive rights, Phinney shows, the Vietnamese state has embraced xin con as a “socially intelligible kinship” practice (4). Phinney focuses on agency, governmentality, and subjectivity as they affect single women’s reproductive desires as “empirical realities and as analytic categories” (5). This book offers insight into Phinney’s long-term research into the topic of xin con, which she has conducted since the 1990s. Instead of seeing Vietnamese women as victims of society and state policies on reproduction, Phinney focuses on Vietnamese women as agents for change. According to Phinney, xin con is a “revolutionary transformation” in postwar... You do not currently have access to this content.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.021 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.024 | 0.008 |
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".