8.11 Explain 1950s Marriage Questionaire
In your response, be sure to address all parts of the question. Use complete sentences; an outline or bulleted list alone is not acceptable. Using the excerpt, respond to parts a, b, and c.
“I always hoped to be just what I am—a wife and a mother. I gave up my office work which I enjoyed. . . . [I was rewarded with] a nice home I can run the way I want to. A husband to be a lifetime companion and ‘protector.’ A fine group of children. . . .
“[But] much of our trouble has centered around my husband’s unwillingness to do work around the house, which he says is my sole responsibility. . . . With the children’s care, housework, repairs, leaf raking, snow shoveling, some lawn mowing and making all our clothing (so we could save every penny we could toward a house) I became physically and nervously exhausted. My husband refused to get up with the children or let me stay in bed even one morning.”
_Nora Grey, response to a questionnaire about her marriage for a scientific study, circa the mid-1950s
Question 1
Briefly describe the point of view of the author of the excerpt.
Question 2
Briefly explain how one historical development from 1946 to 1960 provides a helpful context for understanding the response to the questionnaire.
Question 3
Briefly explain how one social movement that developed in the period from 1960 to 1980 responded to attitudes such as those expressed in the excerpt.
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