‘You’ve got to learn how to be more vulnerable’: exploring the shifting geographies of men living with chronic illness
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this paper, we contribute to geographic scholarship on masculinities through an examination of the interweaving of gender and disability in the shifting social geographies of men who live with chronic physical illness. Using an in-depth qualitative and visual arts methodology with men who live with MS and Fibromyalgia, we consider how their changing physical and cognitive capacities can make it difficult to approximate an able-bodied masculinity. Our analysis highlights two key themes. First, the diverse physical and cognitive impacts of chronic illness pose problems for masculine embodiment in different ways in different places. Problems are perhaps most acute in the context of the workplace but also impact gendered domestic geographies. Second, gendered relations of care and support are transformed by experiences of chronic illness. On the one hand, men are increasingly dependent on others for support. This places new demands on existing relationships that impact the doing of gender. On the other hand, changes wrought by chronic illness involve some men more actively in the provision of care. We examine what this means for the re-gendering of care.
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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 | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.027 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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 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".