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How Did the Ideals Represented by the Cult of Domesticity

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How did the ideals represented by the cult of domesticity differ from feminine ideals of the eighteenth century?


A) They acknowledged that women had a role to play in the market economy as the "holders of the purse strings" in the family.
B) They focused on the dangers that might befall women-such as falling into prostitution-who gave into their passions.
C) They encouraged women to be emotionally distant from their husbands, so that men would be more free to participate in the market economy.
D) They represented a shift into a purely private world, dominated by the family and emotion.
E) They lifted the burden of household work from married women and shifted it to young, unmarried women, many of them immigrants.

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