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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... police , Earl's visit to you , " his estranged wife , " the previous morning , had degenerated into a bitter dispute . I learned that when the police arrived at your home Earl was lying on the floor and you were there as well . The police ...
... police in Calgary and Cochrane ; members of the Calgary emergency med- ical team ; Earl's doctor and some of the staff at the General Hospital ; the staff at the Betty Ford Center in California , which Dorothy has attended since her ...
... police were there to testify , the clean , stiff , synthetic fibre of their uniforms made a sharp swish as they moved . The military stance of the female officers , with their large pistols in leather holsters strapped at their hips is ...
... police station , and the north windows giving out on a dreary , ugly , treeless street . As I sat each day in the waiting area before I could go into the courtroom , I thought how depressing this gloomy atmosphere must be for the people ...
... police tell us the details of her actions . We had seen the gun , the bullet casings , the bullet holes in Earl's jacket , photographs of his blood on the garage floor . His telling about the incident made it more dramatic , more real ...