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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... realized , or in their realization fraught with secre- cy and guilt . Sex outside marriage was officially forbidden . Reliable con- traception was inaccessible . More brides than we knew were pregnant when they married . The disgrace of ...
... realized with anger and resentment that the act of waiting , like many expectations of women , was imbued with patience , virtue , and romance , and that those who expect it of us consid- er it proof of our true feminine natures ...
... realized that they had also given up their independence . When I was in my teens — curious , expectant , and filled with roman- tic dreams of my future — I read about the mythical Penelope , who wait- ed twenty years for her husband ...
... realize that some of her " freedom " may , in fact , be very costly . Grocery shopping , even in a large city and especially in the suburbs , has about it aspects of village life . I almost always meet other women and men whom I know ...
... realize until the end of the hearing , as I read over the notes I had taken , how desperately Dorothy must have hoped that this hearing would be the end . In fact , as I think of what I have learned about her marriage , and her skill at ...