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. ...

• Word Count: 886
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

• Word Count: 887
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"The lesbian subject, variously defined, appears in a number of coded, indirect, and subversive as well as literal ways. Instead of a recognizable genre, lesbian literary narrative, is in reality, a disputed form, dependent on various interpretive strategies." Marilyn Farwell offers a detailed response to the complicated genre of lesbian literature. Farwell recognizes the need to "read against the grain" in order to establish the encoded meanings and forms in lesbian writing that are not clearly placed across a fictional tale. It is with this type of reading perhaps that a lesbian narrati...

• Word Count: 2062
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate