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Scripps Senior Theses

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2014

Feminism

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“Of The Woman First Of All”: Walt Whitman And Women's Literary History, Vivian Delchamps Jan 2014

“Of The Woman First Of All”: Walt Whitman And Women's Literary History, Vivian Delchamps

Scripps Senior Theses

This thesis contemplates Walt Whitman's role in the lives of 19th and 20th century women writers and his significance to early American feminism. I consider the ways women inspired him to develop pro-feminist ideas about maternity, womanhood, and female liberation.