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Brenda Maddox's Literary Analysis

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The reason that makes Brenda Maddox’s biography so absorbing and great is that she could take for granted a cultural sensitivity to issues of gender and ethnicity. For example, Maddox in her book talks about Franklin’s sexuality, which Sayre stayed away from doing. Sayre showed Franklin as not confronting either a life of sexuality with marriage or the dedicated life of a woman scientist. However, Maddox makes sure to explore the shades of grey. She describes Franklin’s sexual attraction to Jacques Mehring. Maddox explains how She began to pay more attention to clothes. Some of her friends noticed the way she talked about romance, however, they excluded the chance that she was gay after observing her understandable attraction to Jacques Mering,
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