<i>Les jolies crieuses:</i> Women’s Voices in Rétif’s <i>Contemporaines du commun</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Rétif’s rendering of the speech of working-class women in Les Contemporaines du commun offers unique access to a world neglected by many of the author’s own contemporaries. However, in the two chapters titled “Les jolies crieuses,” the authenticity of this approach is mediated not only by Rétif’s personal preoccupations but by a long tradition of other artistic representations of urban food hawkers in collections of words and images known as Les Cris de Paris. In providing a transcription of the crieuses’ speech in these chapters, Rétif seems to offer an accurate documentation of what he hears, but in further characterizing them as seductive sirens, he actively aestheticizes and objectifies these hard-working women. At the same time, however, in allowing them agency to narrate their own lifestories, Rétif invites his heroines to reconstitute themselves as subjects, showing these supposedly simple women to be capable of complex, creative uses of language.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".