I Don’t: The Commodification of the Bride in Montreal Art from the 1970s
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Abstract
This thesis investigates some of the specific local articulations of the international Women’s Liberation Movement created by artists in Montreal at the beginning of the 1970s. I highlight the prevalence of the commodification of women through marriage as a main focal point for this investigation. My case studies are Mauve’s performances, manifesto and installation, entitled La femme et la ville (1972), and Francine Larivée’s environment-event La chambre nuptiale (1976). The first section of the thesis explores Mireille Dansereau’s documentary J’me marie, j’me marie pas (1973) as an introduction to the social and political contexts in which Mauve’s and Larivée’s works were created. In the second section, I discuss the development of feminism in Montreal, and the history of the institution of the family. The third section examines Mauve’s and Larivée’s works, and their exploration of the bride in relation to commodities, in the context of an increasingly consumerist society. I focus my discussion on commercial mannequins and the white wedding dress, two elements that are at the centre of both La femme et la ville and La chambre nuptiale. Additionally, the thesis casts a critical glance at the ambivalence that characterizes sexually empowered women in the media as both objects of male desire and independent, emancipated individuals. The fourth section deals with the impact of pop art, its Quebec counterpart, ti-pop, and with the cultural democracy model. I conclude my thesis by showing that the commodification of the bride and marriage is a topic that is still relevant today, perhaps even more than it was in the 1970s.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.015 | 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".