Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article argues that Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing (1972) offers a material thought that engages with the emerging New Materialist feminist insights. By contrasting with the concurrent second-wave feminism, which often sought to deny certain physical characteristics of women, Atwood embraces the inherent traits of femininity and facilitates the protagonist’s reconnection with her body through a return to the wilderness. As the protagonist interacts with the material nature around her, she comes to understand that her body is not a fixed entity but a trans-corporeal, fluid body that is open to and engaged in exchange with its surroundings. The protagonist also symbolises the oppressed Canadian national identity. In opposition to the European humanist logic represented by Americans, she emphasises a kinship, as described by Donna Jeanne Haraway, where all humans and non-humans share a common flesh, shape through interaction, and co-constitute one another. Ultimately, by exploring the fluidity of the protagonist’s body and identity, Atwood envisions a post-human democratic politics where humans and non-humans coexist as equals, fostering interdependence and co-evolution rather than domination or exploitation.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.043 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
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".