The “cult of true womanhood,” also called the “cult of domesticity”, was an ideology developed during the early 19th century that tied a woman's virtue to piety, submissiveness, and domesticity.
The Culture of Domesticity (often shortened to Cult of Domesticity) or Cult of True Womanhood is a term used by historians to describe what they consider to have been a prevailing value system among the upper and middle classes during the 19th Century in the United States and the United Kingdom.
