... ideologies shone through was when we read the poem, "Ready to Kill-, by Carl Sandburg. A handful of the girls in the class were disturbed by how Sandburg failed to recognize women in his plea for not just soldiers but the "real huskies- of the world to be memorialized. This gender conscious way of thinking could be linked to the reader-response criticism, where it says that "meaning is derived ... by the resistance the reader feels in relationship to the text."" I was ignorant to the gender isolation until the ... topic was broached, for this is not a strong component of my ideology; th...

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