Laura K. Nelson
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Intersectionality
The Inequality of Intersectionalities in Chicago’s First-Wave Women’s Movement
This article uses network and text analyses methods to reexamine the intersections of race, class, gender, and ethnicity in first-wave feminist organizations in Chicago during the Progressive Era, from 1860 to 1920.
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And the Rest is History: Measuring the Scope and Recall of Wikipedia’s Coverage of Three Women’s Movement Subgroups
Narrating history is perpetually contested, shaping and reshaping how nations and people understand both their pasts and the current moment. Measuring and evaluating the scope of histories is methodologically challenging. In this paper we provide a general approach and a specific method to measure historical recall.
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Rebekah Getman
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Syed Arefinul Haque
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Leveraging the Alignment Between Machine Learning and Intersectionality: Using Word Embeddings to Measure Intersectional Experiences of the Nineteenth Century U.S. South
I empirically demonstrate the alignment between machine learning and inductive research through a word embedding model of first-person narratives of the nineteenth-century U.S. South.
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