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2. Middle Eastern Intersectionality

2025· article· en· W4412990798 on OpenAlexaff
Farinaz Basmechi

Bibliographic record

Venue(Un)Disturbed A Journal of Feminist Voices · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGender Politics and Representation
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Ottawa
FundersUniversity of CambridgeNorthwest Scientific Association
KeywordsIntersectionalityMiddle EastPolitical scienceGender studiesSociologyGeographyArchaeology

Abstract

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Though much has been written about women in the Middle East, literature on feminism seldom applies an intersectional perspective. In this paper, I assess how scholars address women’s issues in the Middle East. A deeper study of the scholarly work on women provides a fruitful starting point for theory. Building on two main concepts of “intersectionality”(Crenshaw 1989) and “matrix of domination” (Collins 2002), I conducted a content analysis on 170 papers and books about women and gender in seventeen countries of the Middle East. My results indicate that in almost all of the countries’ scholarly work, there is an emphasis on patriarchy, religion, and state/government. These findings highlight crucial axes of Middle Eastern intersectionality for feminist studies in the region.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.378
Threshold uncertainty score0.342

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.037
GPT teacher head0.337
Teacher spread0.300 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2025
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