The Cult of Domesticity promoted a specific version of femininity that they claimed all "real" women should have. This involved staying in the domestic sphere and caring for the household and children, honoring and obeying their husband and God, and making their home comfortable for the men. The Cult of Domesticity also excluded those who were not white or middle/upper class.
This is significant because it was the way society worked at the time. Mothers would stay home and help raise their children into model citizens.
The Cult of Domesticity meant that women needed to have 4 virtues. The four virtues were piety, purity, domesticity and pureness. This caused womens roles at home and work to be changed.
The Cult of Domesticity arose between 1820 and the Civil War when the middle-class family did not have to make what it needed to survive. Instead, men worked jobs to buy what they needed and the women stayed home with the children. So the Cult of Domesticity was a postindustrial middle-class society in the nineteenth-century.
Women weren't forced into the cult of domesticity but, at the same time, they had few ways to socially advance, so many of them simply had little alternative choice.
A woman's place is in the home as a mother.
To improve the education. Mainly for Girls!Regards,HB
To improve the education. Mainly for Girls!Regards,HB
To improve the education. Mainly for Girls!Regards,HB
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Cult of Domesticity
The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique
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