10: Josefina Learns a Lesson . . .or Did She?

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 10, we explore Josefina Learns a Lesson, the second book in the Josefina series. One lesson we learn right away is never to judge a book by its (beautifully illustrated) cover. Though this book promises a school story, what it delivers is a story about a family being schooled by their once-absent aunt, Tia Dolores. Following a disastrous flood, Tia Dolores seizes her chance to inflict her priorities on the family. After making the family business solvent, Dolores begins her hotly contested campaign for literacy. Over the course of this episode, Mary and Allison consider Josefina's growing skillset (family therapy, weaving, sewing, spreading Catholic guilt) and whether Dolores is really just fleecing the Montoyas. We also wrap up our coverage of the HBO mega-hit Gentleman Jack, Taylor Swift’s contribution to Pride Month, and the couple bringing measles back.

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0:30.3	So Mary, we're both historians, right?
0:33.0	So I've been thinking a lot this week about really important slogans and expressions that people have had throughout history.
0:42.0	You know, we think back to the 19th century,
0:44.3	first with, am I not a man and a brother,
0:47.6	you know, which was a call to end enslavement
0:50.4	and then aren't I a woman from Sojourner Truth?
0:53.0	You know, Martin Luther King talked about having a dream,
0:57.0	others saying we shall overcome,
0:59.0	and now we have something else in the canon.
1:02.0	I'm nervous.
1:04.0	What I mean what what's something that a woman really wants to hear when she's fighting for her rights and or any other marginalized person like what's something that's really helpful to say to them?
1:14.6	You know, I would have said, look, what you made me do,
1:18.2	but I'm not into domestic violence rhetoric.
1:21.7	So instead I'm gonna say, like like I would really want to hear or you
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