Be Good, Sweet Maid: The Trials of Dorothy JoudrieWilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 1999/10/25 - 275 ページ January 21, 1995: Dorothy Joudrie is arrested for attempting to murder her estranged husband. Soon after, Audrey Andrews begins to write her book. Audrey and Dorothy had known each other as children, but the identification of Andrews with Joudrie goes beyond merely the accident of a childhood acquaintance. It has to do with being subjected to the same societal constraints placed on girls and women during the years immediately following World War II, the years in which they had prepared for their adult lives. Expectations, placidly accepted then, are now seen as unrealistic and unreasonable. Did these expectations have some part in causing the tragedy in Dorothy Joudrie’s life? When Andrews attempted to understand why Dorothy Joudrie had tried to kill her husband, and to write Joudrie’s story, she began to examine her own life, her own expectations — those she had of herself and those others had of her. She also realized that telling the story of anyone is an intricate and often ephemeral pursuit. Any story she wrote could only be her version of Joudrie’s experience. Nevertheless, it was important to be as honest as she could about her interpretation of that life. She determined to show carefully and accurately the damage that had been done to one woman — damage that is still being done to many others — through prejudice, attitudes, traditions and the institutions that are still the foundation of our society, and of our lives, everyday. The result is a fascinating account of events leading up to the trial, the trial itself and the effect of Joudrie’s trial on the life of Audrey Andrews. |
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... husband Earl , a successful Canadian corporate exec- utive . On that sunny winter Saturday morning , as Dorothy waited for her husband to visit her , she could not have imagined the turmoil she experi- enced that day and has continued ...
... husband listened , endlessly , to what I wrote . Also , he , our family , and the small group of women , The Wednesday Circle , with whom I meet weekly for coffee , prompted me with astute comments and questions , and allowed me much ...
... husband six times in the back , as news reports had told us many times , and still had not managed to kill him ... husbands ' careers , but to the corporate community generally . The propriety , the decorum , and the obedience and ...
... husband's treatment of her , and to society's demands on her ; and her des- perate act of resistance and self - defence , which her conscious mind simply could not embrace . In some ways , Dorothy Joudrie's life epitomizes the ...
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