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      Cult of Domesticity

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      Author(s)
      Winter, Thomas
      Editor
      Carroll, Bret E.
      Date
      2004
      Publisher
      SAGE Publications, Inc.
      Pages
      120 - 122
      Language
      English
      Type
      Book Chapter
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      Book Title
      American Masculinities: A Historical Encyclopedia
      Abstract
      The “cult of domesticity” was first explored as a historical phenomenon in antebellum U.S. society by Barbara Welter, who wrote in 1966 of a “cult of true womanhood,” though the phrase itself was coined by the historian Aileen Kraditor in 1968. Part of a broader nineteenth-century northern middle-class ideology of “separate spheres,” the cult of domesticity identified womanhood with the private or domestic sphere of the home and manhood with the public sphere of economic competition and politics. While the cult of domesticity primarily concerned a definition of femininity, defining the home as a space governed by women's sentimental, moral and spiritual influence, this ideology also contributed to definitions of manliness and sought to control male passions at a time when the market revolution, urbanization, ...
      Keywords
      Breadwinners
      Cults
      Domestic sphere
      Middle class
      Public sphere
      Working class
      Working men
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/51380
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      http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412956369.n61
      http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412956369
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