True Women

Backround for understanding:(the idea of "The cult of True Womenhood," or the cult of domesticity," sought out to assert that womanly virtue resided in piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesticity- the attributes of True womanhood , by which woman judged herself and was judged by her husband , her neighbors and her society could be divided into four cardinal virtues piety,purity,submissiveness, and domesticity.... without them... all them ashes, With them she was promised happiness and power .(.