“It’s Amazing What a Girl Can Do” Neoliberal Girlhood, Disability, and Charity in Our Generation Dolls
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Robin Bernstein uses the phrase “scriptive things” to describe material artifacts that, if read using archival knowledge and historical context, offer insights into the actions of humans who interact with the object and the ways that those actions may be prompted or scripted. By reading the toys, visual designs, and texts of Our Generation (OG) dolls as “scriptive things” (to follow Bernstein), she aims to investigate what kind of imagined reality OG invites us into when we play with their dolls. In particular, the author is interested in the heavy-handed and often contradictory politics of class, race, cisness, and disability entangled within OG’s imaginings of girlhood. In this article, she shows how OG engages a discursive production of a neoliberal girlhood formulated by middle-class whiteness, cisfemmeness, and ableism, discussing how this neoliberal girlhood governs representations of disability and emerges through the language of charity. This analysis offers insight into the discursive relationships formed between girlhood, disability, and charity under neoliberalism.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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".