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cult of true womanhood: a standalone construct

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Women's history

the nineteenth-century American ideal that women should embody piety, purity, submissiveness and domesticity.

In women's history, cult of true womanhood refers to the nineteenth-century American ideal that women should embody piety, purity, submissiveness and domesticity. This meaning comes from Welter (1966) in American Quarterly.[1]

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References

Welter, B. (1966). The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860. American Quarterly, 18(2), 151. https://doi.org/10.2307/2711179

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