The Matriarchitects: The Creation and Maintenance of the British Imperial Simulacrum in the Journalism of Helen Gregory MacGill, Madge Macbeth, and Kathleen Blake Coleman
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis examines the lives and work of three early Canadian women journalists, Helen Gregory MacGill, Madge Macbeth, and Kathleen Blake “Kit” Coleman. The argument expands on the work of Sara Mills in Discourses of Difference (1991), using a similar Foucauldian approach to determine constraints on the production and reception of the three women’s writings; additionally, Jean Baudrillard’s simulacrum theory is used to determine the effects produced by those writings. The analysis focuses on articles the three journalists wrote about nations beyond the control of the British empire – Japan, Spain, and Cuba respectively – using an interdisciplinary approach. By situating the three journalists within the Canadian context of British high imperialism, and then assessing their articles as travel writing rather than journalism, the impact of their work emerges: through their journalism work, MacGill, Macbeth, and Coleman contributed to the creation and maintenance of a simulacrum of the British empire.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.028 | 0.028 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".