Bibliographic record
Abstract
: Chapter 3 takes up a central paradox of financial markets. While market participants were almost entirely male, financial activity is historically associated with the feminine. This chapter discusses the gendering of financial exchange and the depiction of women as both agents and objects of exchange in Die Austernprinzessin (‘The Oyster Princess,’ 1919), the little-known Fräulein Raffke (‘Raffke's Daughter,’ 1923), and Die freudlose Gasse (‘The Joyless Street,’ 1925). It offers the counterexample of an early and atypical film that featured a female speculator, Die Börsenkönigin (The Queen of the Stock Exchange, 1916), in order to discuss the depiction of financial independence in terms of its importance to first-wave feminism and the German women's movement. Also introduced is the trope of ‘liquidity’ – a central theme of this book. Keywords: Woman as Speculator, Woman as Commodity, Gender and Finance, Liquidity, Asta Nielsen, First-Wave Feminism The New Woman as Speculator Introduction In the established discourse on Weimar cinema, women are usually discussed in terms of their role as objects rather than active agents of financial exchange. However, a close examination of the depiction of women speculators reveals a more complex picture. Public and private space in Wilhelmine Germany (and continuing into the Weimar years) was highly gendered, and characterized by a doctrine of separate spheres, with men taking an active role in public space, and women largely confined to the domestic sphere of the family. Gender roles conformed to the notion of Geschlechtscharakter (‘the character of the sexes’), which emerged in the eighteenth century and described ‘the mental characteristics which were held to coincide with the physiological distinctions between the sexes.’ After the First World War, women increasingly participated in the workforce but this shift in women's role was gradual in practice. In popular media, however, it was manifested as a much more urgent phenomenon, creating the impression of violent rupture in traditional gender roles. Evidence of the perception of the threat of an emergent ‘New Woman’ can be found in all cultural domains in the Weimar period and appeared in a variety of forms in the cinema.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 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 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".