Regarding middle-class housewife: “Unlike farm wives, they had no responsibility for working with their husbands as partners operating a farm, nor did they have to labor long hours in the expanding urban factories and sweatshops, as did working-class women. As a rebellion against the suggestion that the women of the growing middle-class population had no real role, an ideology was designed that gave women a central place...” (154)

(Palen, J. John. The Suburbs. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995. Print.)