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The Meaning and Meanness of Polygyny

2018· book-chapter· en· W7084026688 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueCornell University Press eBooks · 2018
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicGeodetic Measurements and Engineering Structures
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPolygynyHarmMeaning (existential)PoliticsAction (physics)InequalityParallels

Abstract

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This chapter explores the pervasive harm polygyny inflicts on women, children, and nation-states by tracing the author's unexpected scholarly journey into the topic. Prompted by a post-9/11 conversation, the author began to investigate how polygyny—through practices like patrilocality, child marriage, and wealth-based marital inequality—exacerbates violence, undermines health, and fosters systemic oppression. Using data from the WomanStats Project and global experimental studies, the author demonstrates that higher rates of polygyny correlate with increased domestic violence, child mortality, female genital mutilation, and diminished civil and political rights. Her expert testimony in a landmark Canadian trial further validates these empirical links, influencing legal efforts to curb harm under the guise of religious freedom. Finally, the chapter urges scholars and policymakers to confront how entrenched gender hierarchies, rooted in polygynous systems, perpetuate inequality and instability—and to take action to disrupt their intergenerational effects.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.969
Threshold uncertainty score0.774

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.022
GPT teacher head0.152
Teacher spread0.129 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it