“They Do Need You, Don’t They?”: Disability, Gender, and Care Work in World War I Conscription Dramas
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article analyses two World War I–era political dramas that depict civilian disability in a domestic setting, demonstrating how “everyday” disability was incorporated into arguments about the United States’ and individual families’ participation in the war. Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s Mine Eyes Have Seen, an anti-lynching play published in The Crisis magazine in April 1918, and Sada Cowan’s The State Forbids, a pro–birth control play first performed in 1916 in Brooklyn, both depict the same moment in war-time family life: the receipt of a draft notice. Draftees’ decisions in both plays about whether to obey their draft notices are complicated by the presence of disabled siblings for whom they feel responsible. While these plays illuminate the influence of eugenics discourse on WWI-era representations of disability, they also imagine possibilities of solidarity and community based in the lived experiences of families who navigate war-time citizenship from positions of vulnerability and outsidership.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.026 | 0.051 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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".