130: Votes for Women and Changes for Julie

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Julie Albright knows that few things are fair in fifth grade. Yet, even Julie is shocked to receive detention after passing a note and helping her new friend, Joy, in the classroom. On the heels of a useless afternoon in detention, Julie decides to run for office. While battling a fierce opponent promising time off and pizza parties, Julie also has to learn how to be a good friend and ally to Joy, who is mocked for being deaf. We discuss Julie's various activist streaks across all the books, the prevalent nostalgia for other days (mostly the 1950s) in this book, and representations of disability through the character of Joy.

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to Dawes of our lives. This is the podcast where we're reliving the American Girl series book by book. I'm Mary.
0:18.0	I'm still Allison. Now Allison, do you have an extra $300 to spare?
0:24.3	I actually just I missed the $300 moment to give Mattel money for the American Girl Barbie. I missed it. Okay, I mean are you
0:36.1	sad about that? Like let's get into this for people who are unaware in the past
0:39.9	week or so, Mattel launched a commemorative Barbie themed American Girl
0:47.8	doll who looks like the classic original Barbie.
0:51.6	If you saw the Barbie movie, this is the Barbie, the massive Margot Roby who appears at the beginning in the montage.
1:01.0	Yes.
1:02.0	I did not, so I chose to not spend money on this. I also was sort of watching to see what
1:10.9	people said. I'm not really a collector for collecting sake. I think it was a smart move if you are a
1:17.2	collector who flips or turns things over. I'm more of an instant gratification and you're not going to get this doll until
1:25.5	possibly November 24 which is too far for me. I feel that and as Carrie Fisher
1:32.0	once said instant gratification can't come soon enough like I feel that in my bone sometimes I was not tempted by this and more than that I'm actually offended that they did this
1:44.0	What do you not like about it? Because I think it is kind of a shocking thing,
1:47.0	knowing that this was marketed as the anti-Barbee.
1:51.0	Yeah, I mean, I think it's, so on level, we all know or if you know if you've read our book,
1:55.6	hint, hand dolls of our lives or we can't quit American Girl, a great stocking stuff or check it out or holiday gift.
2:02.2	You know, Pleasant was motivated to create American Girl as a reaction against dolls like
2:07.8	Barbie, explicitly Barbie, that she believed we're asking girls to grow up too soon.
2:14.0	And as we learned on our patron episode where we read a history of Ruth,
2:18.2	what's her last name?
2:20.2	Hanler, who created Barbie, you know Barbie is based on actually like a German
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