{"id":12,"date":"2007-02-21T10:14:21","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T17:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/2007\/02\/21\/jos-people-drowning-out-the-silent-beths\/"},"modified":"2007-02-21T10:14:21","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T17:14:21","slug":"jos-people-drowning-out-the-silent-beths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/2007\/02\/21\/jos-people-drowning-out-the-silent-beths\/","title":{"rendered":"Jo&#8217;s people drowning out the silent Beths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was wondering about <em>Little Women <\/em>and its impact on the women who read it.\u00c2\u00a0 Based on Dr. Campbell&#8217;s reading of some famous female comments on the book, it would seem that the only daughter anyone bothers identifying with is Jo.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I think that might not be true.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps we only hear from the Jo-people because of course we&#8217;d never hear from the Beth-people and the Meg-people are too busy.\u00c2\u00a0 It would be difficult to prove, but perhaps <em>Little Women<\/em> is an important feminist text because it liberates multiple lifestyles, rather than just pushing Jo-feminism on everyone.\u00c2\u00a0 Jo&#8217;s noise drowns out the silent ones, the Beths and Megs and Amys.\u00c2\u00a0 <em>Little Women<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0would then be a moderate feminist text, one that declares each sister viable.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, we all know people who are like Jo and are like Amy and Meg, and I happen to know a Bethlike person.\u00c2\u00a0 Not to say that all women fall into one of those categories, but many women have to choose one or some combination of the sisters&#8217; decisions in life.\u00c2\u00a0 Therefore, the sort of people who love Jo are going to be writing about <em>Little Women<\/em> while the ones who love Beth might be just quietly being good and rereading the novel after charity work.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was wondering about Little Women and its impact on the women who read it.\u00c2\u00a0 Based on Dr. Campbell&#8217;s reading of some famous female comments on the book, it would seem that the only daughter anyone bothers identifying with is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/2007\/02\/21\/jos-people-drowning-out-the-silent-beths\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}