Marko Dumančić. <i>Men Out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties</i>.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Marko Dumančić’s 2021 book Men out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties is an excellent addition to the already substantial field of studies of Soviet masculinities, including recent work by Erica Fraser, Claire McCallum, and Amy Randall (to name only a few). It also contributes a gendered lens to the renewed scholarly focus on the “long” 1960s, marked most prominently by the publication of Denis Kozlov and Eleonory Gilburd’s 2013 The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture During the 1950s and 1960s. The book takes sixties’ cinema and popular culture as its object, but its larger goal is to historicize the moment when gender roles in the Soviet Union came under a certain kind of pressure: when masculinity could no longer assume the forms it had taken under Stalin but had to find alternative routes of gender expression, many of which did not conform to normative patriarchal codes. What makes this study so valuable is its reliance on a rich archive of sources from popular culture (movies, cartoons, articles, ethnographic, demographic, and psychological studies) that move beyond the usual divide of “official/unofficial” culture to cross disciplinary as well as ideological lines. The wealth of material collected in this study makes clear the degree to which shifting definitions of gender and masculinity were at the heart of sixties’ culture, informing conversations about science, technology, urbanism, modernity, consumerism, and the future of the Soviet state.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.018 | 0.009 |
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".