Feminist re-imaginings of a Victorian brothel: Using a dialogic method between practitioners and academics
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Miss Laura’s Social Club is a former Victorian brothel that is the Visitors Center for Fort Smith, Arkansas. While the building has been a popular tourist attraction for the city since the 1990s, the exhibits in the site portray an inaccurately sanitized image of prostitution. A recent change in city leadership prompted a re-evaluation of Miss Laura’s and opened an opportunity to re-imagine the space in ways that would continue to appeal to tourists yet reflect a realistic portrait of the lives of the women workers. Through semi-structured dialogue, two practitioners working at Miss Laura’s and two university researchers imagined the exhibit space in the Front Parlor into a restructured historically accurate narrative. Explorations of feminism, glamorization of prostitution, elitism and the conflict between heritage sites’ roles offer a model for other feminist researchers and practitioners to transform these sites by addressing critically their histories of whitewashing inconvenient gendered truths.
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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 | 0.035 | 0.025 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.027 | 0.065 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.017 | 0.012 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.018 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.011 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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".