Who Is Bradstreet Trying To Defy The Status-Quo?

In the poem "Prologue" Bradstreet is trying to defy the status-quo that men are superior to women. She used the phrase "mean pen" when she was talking about how men thought she could not read. She also said that "school-boys" do not hold their tongues and that teaches girls at a young age that men are superior. Bradstreet says "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue; Who says my hand a needle better fits," which means she is tired of men telling her she can not read or write. In her other poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband" Bradstreet expresses that women should repress their personal felling and wait for the predestined eternal life. She says "If ever wife were happy in a man; Compare with me, ye women, if you can", which is saying that if