Hope Chest - Paperback

by Cherie Tucker (Author)

In 1959, when Kathleen Andrews pledged a sorority at the University of Washington, girls were expected to get married. They got bride dolls and hope chests and the message that they would grow up to be wives and mothers. Their job choices were limited for the most part to teaching, nursing, and office work-things they could "fall back on." They were teased that they went to college to get their MRS degree. Kathleen followed all the rules her sorority and society taught her and expected to meet her future husband. But the rules did not prepare her for the transition from the predictable roles of the Eisenhower years to the revolutionary ideas of the Women's Movement that would change everything she was taught to expect-and accept.

Author Biography

Cherie Tucker is a Seattle native and a graduate of the University of Washington with a B.A. in English. Through her business, GrammarWorks, she has taught grammar and writing basics to business professionals in the U.S. and Canada since 1987. She also teaches in the University of Washington's Professional and Continuing Education editing program. She has won national awards for copywriting, has edited numerous books, and writes a monthly grammar column for the Pacific Northwest Writers Association's online magazine, AUTHOR. In addition she sings in the Seattle Women's Chorus and serves as an advisor to her college sorority