Citizen mothers and others: natalist discourse and politics in the U.S. after Trump
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article focuses on the ways in which contemporary U.S. natalist discourse, signs, and political interventions have constructed mother citizens in binary opposition to outsider / others. It examines how a variety of players, from politicians to influencers, employ nationalistic pro- and anti-natalism toward the ends of population management in various cultural and political sites. It argues that by problematizing both fertility crisis and imagined internal and external threats to the state, U.S. natalists encourage prolific, white motherhood as duty to a national imagined community. Exploring historical examples of natalism and nationalism and following poststructuralists like Jacques Derrida, who traces out hierarchies and othering effects in sign systems and discourse, this article examines the imagined threats in contemporary U.S. natalism, which are depicted in binary to the selfless mother citizen.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 it