I particularly like the third item - "Be a little gay...."

That seems a bit ahead of their time in 1955

I found an even more fun book from the 1960s in the used book store, a slim volume from Sword of the Lord publishers titled "Me, Obey Him?" You can still buy it on Amazon, but sadly the original cover art (a woman with a question mark over her head and a man in the background with his hands in his pockets) has been replaced by this more pastel cover.

The book is all about total obedience to your husband in all things, even when he's wrong, kinda like the Surrendered Wife but even more crazy and hardcore and ultra-Christian right about it.

We're definitely sure this isn't a joke, right? I mean I can be naive about some things, but the "it's okay if he doesn't come home at night" seems a bit much, even for the fifties. And the "always knows her place" thing seems a little bit, well blunt.

...it's totally real, isn't it?

I went to snopes to see if it this was real:

http://www.snopes.com/language/document/goodwife.htm

wow, mikhaela,

reading the comments on that joint put the fear of "god" in me... their "god"... damn, i'm scared of that bastard... i can't believe this crap still exists... and with such fervor... i mean, really, reading that ish really was a wake-up call to me.

i mean, wow... that's a pretty incredible perspective on life... incredible in that it's really hard to swallow... hurts going down.

One would hope the Good Wife's Guide included a section on not letting the kids horse around a working stove.

Gaaah!

Now they're both on my web browser's history! Get it off! Get it off!

I want the authors of both to pop through space and time so that I can beat the shit out of them.

I don't think this style of living ever actually existed, just hyperbole ... I tend to think it was just another facet of post war and futuristic propaganda, but it's very funny nonetheless.