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GWS 100: Cult of True Womanhood
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Cult of True Womanhood
by Barbara Welter
Cult of True Womanhood
or Cult of Domesticity
Cult of True Womanhood
The Cult of True Womanhood (CTW) or the Cult of Domesticity spans from the 1820s to the Civil war (1860s).
The New Middle Class
- Growth of new industries, businesses, and professions
- Helped to create in America a new middle class
The New Middle Class
- The new middle class husband
- The new middle class differed from the pre-industrial family in 3 different ways.
3 Differences
1. They did not have to make what they needed in order to survive.
What was life like pre-industrial revolution (1760-1850)?
2. When husbands went off to work, they helped create the view that men alone should support the family.
Public vs. Private
3 Differences
3. The middle-class family came to look at itself, and at the nuclear family in general, as the backbone of society.
Kin and community no longer as important as the nuclear family.
Cult of Domesticity
New Ideal of Womanhood
4 New Ideals
4 New Ideals
Piety
#1
Irreligion in females was considered "the most revolting human characteristic."
Purity
Without sexual purity, a woman was no woman, but rather a lower form of being, a "fallen woman," unworthy of the love her sex and unfit for their company.
#2
Submissiveness
The most feminine of virtues.
#3
Domesticity
A woman's place is in the home.