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Also known as the Cult of True Womanhood, this society, arising soon after the development of the bourgeoisie, was composed of upper and middle class white women in the United States and Great Britain during the 1800s. According to this cult, women were supposed to embody perfection in every sense of the word and maintain all four "womanly virtues": submission, piety, purity, and domesticity.

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