An Analysis of The Cult of True Womanhood by Barbara Welter (548 words, 1 pages)
True Womanhood In her article, The Cult of True Womanhood 1820-1860, Barbara Welter discusses the nineteenth-century ideal of the perfect woman. She asserts that the attributes of True Womanhood . . . could be divided into four cardinal virtues-piety, purity, submissiveness and domesticity. Furthermore, she adds that if anyone, male ...
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