In fact, many critics believe that Anne Dudley Bradstreet's feminine sensibility has always attracted scholars searching for details of early American life absent from the writings of her male contemporaries. ... Yet even as Bradstreet suggests, through this sense of performativity, the constructed -ness of gender identity, patriarchal power determines the shape of her very poem about such construction. ...
In fact, many critics believe that Anne Dudley Bradstreet's feminine sensibility has always attracted scholars searching for details of early American life absent from the writings of her male contemporaries. ... Yet even as Bradstreet suggests, through this sense of performativity, the constructed -ness of gender identity, patriarchal power determines the shape of her very poem about such construction. ...