| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-10页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第10-13页 |
| ·A Summary of Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass | 第10页 |
| ·Related Studies of Walt Whitman and Significance of the Study | 第10-12页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter 2 Walt Whitman’s Feminism Embodied in Sex and Gender | 第13-26页 |
| ·The Root of Body and Soul —Sex | 第13-20页 |
| ·Daring and Subversive Defender of Sex in Literature | 第13-16页 |
| ·Powerful and Scientific Weapon to Defend Sex and Body—“Of Physiology from Top to Toe I Sing” | 第16-20页 |
| ·Free and Equal Gender Without Bounds | 第20-26页 |
| ·Obscuring Gender Limits Between “he”and “she” | 第20-22页 |
| ·Free Gender | 第22-24页 |
| ·Gender Equality Reflected by Language Usage and Poems Collecting Choice | 第24-26页 |
| Chapter 3 Walt Whitman’s Democratic Equality Embodied in the Work | 第26-31页 |
| ·Whitman’s Democratic Equality in Song of Myself | 第26-27页 |
| ·Democratic Equality in Rewriting the Myth of Genesis | 第27-31页 |
| Chapter 4 Women’s Familiar Role as a “Mother” | 第31-40页 |
| ·Bearing the Great Pain of Giving Birth | 第31-33页 |
| ·Equality Reflected by Mother in the Whole World —the Symbol of Peace Beauty and Love | 第33-35页 |
| ·The Universal Mother —the Bearer of Human Catastrophes | 第35-40页 |
| Chapter 5 The Feminist Discourse in Whitman’s Poems Influenced by His Feminist Friends | 第40-46页 |
| ·Whitman and His Feminist Friends | 第40-41页 |
| ·Singing for the Women’s Rights Movement —Parallel with Mary Chilton | 第41-46页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第46-48页 |
| Notes | 第48-49页 |
| References | 第49-51页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第51-52页 |
| 攻读硕士期间发表论文情况 | 第52页 |
