Be good, sweet maid (Record no. 83610)

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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 345.71/025
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Andrews, Audrey,
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Be good, sweet maid
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Waterloo, Ont. :
Name of publisher Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
Year of publication c1999.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xvi, 275 p.
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Life writing series ;
520 1# - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "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 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, traditons and the institutions that are still the foundation of our society, and of our lives, every day."
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Trials (Attempted murder)
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10141351

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