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Author Andrews, Audrey

Title Be Good, Sweet Maid : the Trials of Dorothy Joudrie
Published Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (296 pages)
Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; Part One: Before the Trial; Part Two: At the Trial; Part Three: After the Trial; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary 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. D
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Subject Joudrie, Dorothy -- Trials, litigation, etc
SUBJECT Joudrie, Dorothy fast
Subject Trials (Attempted murder) -- Alberta -- Calgary
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.
Trials (Attempted murder)
Alberta -- Calgary
Genre/Form Trials, litigation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780889208964
0889208964