Review of <i>One Step over the Line: Toward a History ofWomen in the North American Wests.</i> Editedby Elizabeth Jameson and Sheila McManus
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Abstract
Ever since western women's history emerged as a distinct field of study in the 1980s, collaborative efforts have produced some of the best and most innovative works in the discipline. One Step over the Line continues this fine tradition. Elizabeth Jameson and Sheila McManus's anthology, based on scholarship presented at the 2002 "Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West through Women's History" conference, explores the complex role the nation-state plays in the lives of women on both sides of the politically real, physically invisible, yet historically porous u.S.-Canadian boarder. With essays from a wide array of scholars, the volume's exploration of the role of nation as framework broadens and enriches knowledge of women's lives on both sides of the line, connects parallel histories, and challenges assumptions about the role of the nation in the construction of each country's history. Divided into seven sections, the book moves from theory, to analysis, to teaching advice; each section begins with an introduction emphasizing the balance given to U.S. and Canadian authors, topics, and essays. Jameson and McManus's essays in section 1 provide their rationale for a transnational framework; in section 2, Susan Armitage and Sylvia Van Kirk explore how the history of Oregon Country, jointly claimed by the U.S. and Canada until 1846, might be rewritten placing race and gender at the center of the story. Essays by Jean Barman, Molly Rozum, and Joan Jensen in section 3 illustrate the power of biography and how the lives of not-so-famous women can reshape traditional national narratives. In section 4, Margaret D. Jacobs and Helen Raptis examine the role of white female educators in facilitating or rejecting racist nationalist attitudes. In five, Char Smith, Nora Faires, and Cheryl Foggo focus on diverse groups of American women (prostitutes, middle-class club women, and blacks) who crossed-or transgressed-the Canadian border, and how concepts of nationality shaped their experiences. The role of women in the u.S.jCanadian labor union, Mine Mill, forms the basis for essays by Laurie Mercier and Cynthia Loch-Drake in section 6. In the final section, Margaret Walsh and Mary Murphy provide how-to advice for teaching a Canadian and American women's history course.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.010 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.003 |
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".