... Anne Bradstreet's time. The general idea was that women were meant to stay home and care for the needs of their children and husband. They had no place in the political sphere, and they need only be educated enough to read the Bible. Women were less scholarly then men so they had no business writing. These beliefs surrounded her writing and ... story. It is in setting up this foundation that Whitman showed resistance. He resisted and encouraged others to resist binary thinking. In the transparent eye of Whitman there were no boundaries between good and bad, ugly and beautiful, or simple...

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