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
is an insightful memoir that reflects on Blackmore's life as a member of the Fundamentalist Mormon community, and how she grew to become the feminist fighting for fundamentalist women that she is today."Balancing Bountiful" is separated into three sections, following the story of her idyllic childhood with her large and booming family in Bountiful, British Columbia, to her underage marriage in the church and navigating her life as a mother with her university education, and then her divorce and her journey through selfdiscovery, spirituality, and feminism.The memoir is inspiring and eye-opening, as Blackmore provides a unique perspective on faith, polygamy, and feminism, all wrapped into one complex and intriguing story.Blackmore reflects on her childhood in her traditional Mormon fundamentalist family in a very idealized manner.She grew up loving all the mothers, siblings, cousins, grandmas, and aunties in her family, regardless of if they were seen as "different" in their current society.From a young age, Blackmore was taught to follow the strict gender roles taught by the Mormon church, and further enforced by the men in her family.In the chapter "Cleaning Up After Boys," Blackmore states she has "already learned that the traditional division of work doesn't seem fair" (Ch.24), and despite this she looks up to her grandmother, who also enforces and teaches these traditional
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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".