Cult of Domesticity (1 janv. 1820 – 1 janv. 1860)
Description:
Women were designed exclusively for the roles of wife and mother and were expected to cultivate Piety, Purity, Submissiveness, and Domesticity in all their relations.
• Middle/Upper-class belief
• Protected women from the outside world
• Moral influence over husbands and children
• Education of children
• Republican Motherhood
– women responsible for teaching moral values of the Republic
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