This document discusses the Cult of Domesticity, a prevailing social philosophy in the 19th century that defined women's proper roles as pious, pure, submissive, and domestic. It prescribed that women remain in the domestic sphere to care for the home and family, leaving the public/work sphere to men. The document outlines the time period, classes, and regions it affected, as well as the four cardinal virtues women were expected to uphold. It then discusses some influential women of the time period and how the Cult of Domesticity impacted society and women's roles and rights. In conclusion, it notes how views of women's roles have changed over time.

1. The Glory Days

2. The Cult of Domesticity
Cult of True Womanhood
Republican Motherhood

3. Sad
These days are done
The women won
And now supper
Is late

5. Time Period
• Started during the American Revolution
through the early 1800’s

6. Who it affected?
• It was only a prevailing view for the middle
and upper classes of the U.S. and Great Britain
in the 19th century.
• Usually literate women in the Northeastern
part of the U.S.

7. Requirements
• Calm
• Nurturing
• loving/faithful wife
• Passive/delicate
• Need to clean
• Sandwich making

8. In the Cult of Domesticity women had
four cardinal virtues that they abided.

9. 1. Piety
• believed to be more religious and spiritual
than men

10. 2. Purity
• pure in heart, mind, and body
• To lead and influence a calm and healthy
enviorment in their house hold

11. 3. Submission
• men dictated all actions and decisions
• Cared for their child’s needs over their own
• “Perpetual Childhood”

12. 4. Domesticity
• Division between work and home
• Men went to work to earn a living
• Women stayed at home to create a safe haven
for her child and husband

13. Most Influential Girls Today

14. Abigail Adams
• Believed in woman’s rights to an extent
• Companions
• Men cold be tyrants
• Thought slavery was evil

15. The Shame at Seneca Falls
• Wanted more power
• Chore decline
• Jealous

16. The Evil Ones
Lucretia Mott Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Who would want to marry these two?

17. Impact on society
• Gave men a sense that women did have some
importance.
• Women continued to serve the men
• Woman had more opportunities for education

18. “Republican Motherhood”
• Compared to a Spartan lifestyle
• Mothers taught their children the importance
of sacrificing yourself for the good of the
country

19. Why Important?
• It isn’t
• Stepping stones for marriage life
• Start of woman’s rights

20. How things are today?
• Women have 98% equality as men
• Women have become lazy
• Some still respect old ways
• All-Stars