{"id":2677,"date":"2023-10-29T21:09:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T01:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/?p=2677"},"modified":"2023-10-29T21:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T01:09:04","slug":"gendered-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2023\/10\/29\/gendered-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"Gendered Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">When Lucy needs blood transfusions, she is said to require\u00a0the blood of a man who will provide her with the strength she needs. Van Helsing remarks, \u201c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">A brave man\u2019s blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u201d Stoker is implying that a weak woman needs masculinity in order to balance out the femininity implicit in weakness. When Lucy takes in masculinity through the form of blood, she is less delicate and less vulnerable to working herself into feminine hysteria. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">When Van Helsing states that \u201c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">the devil may work against us for all he\u2019s worth, but God sends us men when we want them,\u201d Stoker\u00a0suggests that while men serve god\u2019s purpose, women work against it. In additional service to this point, Dracula drinks the blood of women and is, not unrelatedly, the embodiment of evil and sinfulness in the novel. While taking in the blood of men makes Lucy heartier, taking in the blood of women makes Dracula more depraved. He retains his masculine form and therefore still has physical strength, but his mental strength is\u00a0degraded and perverse.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Lucy needs blood transfusions, she is said to require\u00a0the blood of a man who will provide her with the strength she needs. Van Helsing remarks, \u201cA brave man\u2019s blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble.\u201d Stoker is implying that a weak woman needs masculinity in order to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2023\/10\/29\/gendered-blood\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gendered Blood<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5332,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2023-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}