S2 E19: Elsie Dinsmore

Eve and Kieryn discuss Martha Finley’s Elsie Dinsmore books and why christians aren’t appalled at Roy Moore and other right wing leaders’ abusive histories. CN: For discussion of racist ideology in the books. 

NOTES:

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2017/11/child-marriage-in-elsie-dinsmore-part-1.html

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2017/11/child-marriage-in-elsie-dinsmore-part-2.html

https://slate.com/human-interest/2017/11/fundamentalist-home-schoolers-are-one-group-of-roy-moore-allies-who-think-grown-men-courting-teen-girls-is-natural.html

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2017/11/child-brides-teenage-sluts-and-roy-moore.html

https://rethinkingvisionforum.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/vision-forum-elsie-dinsmore-culture-heartache/

https://web.archive.org/web/20070927090813/http://www.literaturecollection.com/a/o_henry/231/

https://classicsandcraziness.wordpress.com/2019/04/27/follow-up-to-that-post-about-elsie-dinsmore-feat-racism-soooo-much-racism/