Book Review of Blackmore, Mary Jayne. (2020). Balancing Bountiful: What I Learned about Feminism from my Polygamist Grandmothers. Halfmoon Bay: Caitlin Press.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
What I Learned about Feminism from My Polygamist Grandmothers" provides insight into her experience and dynamics of her family life within the works and sense of faith, her feminism and as an individual.Living in a Mormon community burrowed in the mountain community of Bountiful, British Columbia, she details enjoyable memories of her childhood living within a polygamist family.Despite her happy childhood with multiple mothers and a growing number of siblings, Blackmore's extensive questioning of the context of gender roles and desired roles as a woman leads her to become a teacher and activist empowering youth within her community.Blackmore's memoir addresses the various changes she goes through as a woman, wife, mother and feminist, the criticisms her family is exposed to through media and government, and the question of God's role in her life through self-discovery.Blackmore's childhood reflects various areas of Mormonism that shaped her.From her early youth, she was expected to care for others; she speaks of "...the ever-enduring happiness that shall come to the woman who fulfills the first great duty mission that devolves upon her to become the mother of the sons and daughters of God" (p.119).Her responsibilities as a woman in her
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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 | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".