‘It is because we could not write that it came to you’: women's history in testimonial narratives of resistance
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
For feminist historiography, polyphonic women's testimonials of resistance struggles present several critical questions, most importantly about the mediating role of the feminist intellectuals who conduct the interviews, translate, edit, write, and analyse the testimonies. The extended editorial commentaries in a collection of testimonies by women who participated in an armed peasant revolt in India from 1945 to 1951 traces and critiques the assumptions and disciplinary agendas the intellectuals bring to their women's history project. We Were Making History: Women and the Telangana Uprising (1989) throws light not only on the uneven relations of power, agency, and communication that undergird testimonial production, but also the ideologies of gender and community that stand guard over the self-representation of the testimonial narrators.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 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) | 0.008 | 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 it