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  2. Culture of Domesticity - Wikipedia

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    This value system emphasized new ideas of femininity, the woman's role within the home and the dynamics of work and family. "True women", according to this idea, were supposed to possess four cardinal virtues: piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness. The idea revolved around the woman being the center of the family; she was considered ...

  3. Domestication - Wikipedia

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    Domestication (not to be confused with the taming of an individual animal [3] [4] [5]), is from the Latin domesticus, 'belonging to the house'. [6] The term remained loosely defined until the 21st century, when the American archaeologist Melinda A. Zeder defined it as a long-term relationship in which humans take over control and care of another organism to gain a predictable supply of a ...

  4. Housewife - Wikipedia

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    Young Housewife, oil painting on canvas by Alexey Tyranov, currently housed at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg, Russia (1840s). A housewife (also known as a homemaker or a stay-at-home mother/mom/mum) is a woman whose role is running or managing her family's home—housekeeping, which may include caring for her children; cleaning and maintaining the home; making, buying and/or mending ...

  5. ‘This Is Not A Love Story’ by Huffington Post

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    A scary, sobering look at fatal domestic violence in the United States. Examining one month of deadly domestic violence in America. ...

  6. Domestic containment - Wikipedia

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    United States Information Service poster distributed in Asia depicting Juan dela Cruz ready to defend the Philippines under the threat of communism, 1951.. In the cultural history of the United States during the Cold War, domestic containment was the notion that women's main role is in the home, while men work to provide for the family in order to keep a stable home environment and uphold ...

  7. How to register a domestic partnership - AOL

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    But that might also mean that decoupling in a domestic partnership might be legally grayer than with a marriage, which comes with divorce proceedings and the division of marital assets ...

  8. Separate spheres - Wikipedia

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    The Sinews of Old England (1857) by George Elgar Hicks shows a couple "on the threshold" between female and male spheres. [1]Terms such as separate spheres and domestic–public dichotomy refer to a social phenomenon within modern societies that feature, to some degree, an empirical separation between a domestic or private sphere and a public or social sphere.

  9. Domestic partnership - Wikipedia

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    A domestic partnership is an intimate relationship between people, usually couples, who live together and share a common domestic life but who are not married (to each other or to anyone else). People in domestic partnerships receive legal benefits that guarantee right of survivorship , hospital visitation, and other rights.