The "Cult of Domesticity" or "True Womanhood"
- Acheck_circle
Idealized women as moral, pious, pure, and confined to the domestic 'separate sphere'
- B
Pushed middle-class women into wage labor and away from the home
- C
Eliminated marriage as a social institution in the antebellum North
- D
Granted women full legal and political equality with their husbands
Explanation
A middle-class ideology; many working-class and rural women couldn't conform to it.