{"id":50,"date":"2015-10-06T21:26:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T02:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/?p=50"},"modified":"2015-10-06T21:26:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T02:26:42","slug":"value-of-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/2015\/10\/value-of-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Value of Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Oliver Twist<\/em>, Dickens&#8217; two main female characters are essentially foils of each other&#8211;the chaste Rose and the prostitute Nancy. Clearly, this says a lot about how women were valued in the mid-18th century. Rose, who, despite her uncertain heritage, is basically a perfect model of a pure young woman is highly valued for her chastity. Nancy, while not an evil character by any means, does not have as high a societal position as Rose. Even Nancy values Rose more highly than herself: &#8220;if there was more like you, there would be fewer like me,&#8211;there would&#8211;there would!&#8221; (333). Here, purity seems to be the most highly valued quality of women.<\/p>\n<p>As we know, this is a debate that has extended far past the end of the 18th century. &#8220;Slut shaming&#8221; is something that is still a threat to women, certainly more so than in the mid-18th century. Nowadays, chastity is no longer a requirement for a woman to be considered &#8220;valued,&#8221; but, as a result, the female population that can be criticized for perceived promiscuity has grown. As in Dickens&#8217; time, a double standard exists here&#8211;obviously, women who are promiscuous need (often male) partners in order to do the things that they are being criticized for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Oliver Twist, Dickens&#8217; two main female characters are essentially foils of each other&#8211;the chaste Rose and the prostitute Nancy. Clearly, this says a lot about how women were valued in the mid-18th century. Rose, who, despite her uncertain heritage, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/2015\/10\/value-of-women\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4356,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/f2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}