Introduction -- ONE: The Emergence of a New Ideology -- TWO: The Golden Age of Domesticity -- THREE: Domestic Feminism and the World Outside the Home -- FOUR: Toward an Industrialized Home -- FIVE: Darwinism and Domesticity: The Impact of Evolutionary Theory on the Status of the Home -- SIX: The Housewife and the Home Economist -- SEVEN: Domesticity and the Culture of Consumption -- EIGHT: Naming the Problem -- Afterword -- Notes -- Appendix -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
Summary
The author shows how the 19th century's "cult of domesticity" had invested the home with great importance - as the centre of republican virtue, as the source of religious values and as an area of heady female responsibilities
