Cult Of Domesticity By Deborah Tanmen Summary

At the end of her essay, Deborah Tanmen states that “some days you just want to get dressed and go about your business. But if you’re a woman, you can’t, because there is no unmarked woman”. I disagree with Deborah I just don’t think that woman aren’t the only ones marked by society men are also marked by society. The people are shaping a world in where men and woman are sharing common activities, views, possessions, and much more.

Didn’t we lived on a society of male dominance? Thousands years ago male dominance was a big factor females didn’t receive any rights. Women were shut up from the real world. As one can describe they were seen as a toy in which men had little value towards them. Society view was that women were supposed to stay at home and take care of their family, while men went out on work to the industries. This brought up the idea of cult of domesticity, a set of beliefs about gender roles in 19th century. This century the ideal woman was one who was submissive, pure, and religious. Cult of domesticity had an effect, it divided society into two separate spheres: the private sphere which includes the women as the one in charge to take care of the family and cultivate a home

with warmth, supportiveness, and virtues. The men were on a separate in you could describe as the social sphere, here the men was in charge of business, commerce, and society. The separation of sphere the women realized that know they power. From this point the whole idea of male dominance began decreasing.
What have they the women done to decrease male dominance? Women have taken steps to create equality between genders. The brave women, living and dead, who struggled here…such as Elizabeth Cody Stanton stated “We hold these truth to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal” in the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions which was signed by 68 women and 32 men in the Seneca Falls Convention. They here started taking the first steps towards their recognition of women rights and they now had the courage reveal their ideas to the world despite what society thought of them in the era of Male Dominance. Upcoming events increased women hopes, the Civil War the warfare the most deaths of Americans, not even the number of deaths of Americans in all US wars combine can reach that number. Most the men died from disease. During this conflict, women came to the help even though doctors didn’t trusted them. An without men women found themselves doing unfamiliar work as teachers, milk gathers, and much more, but most important of all they gain recognition for nursing. One of those women, Clara Barton, in 1881 founded the Red Cross. Women were now reaching a more respectful position in society.
Now that women had gained respect in society.

It is for society to do its job, and so it did. Society has now created equality between men and women. On august 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified it granted American women the right to vote. By this point women had the power to express their views throughout elections. This wasn’t the only success they also require the power to own property and all girls now were going to school. All girls going to school was the most important triumph because it liberated from the idea that they are supposed to stay at home. Furthermore, girls and boys now get to engage with one another in school they now share same activities in which both genders are seen as equal. So now we can see that we are now living in a world of equality of

genders.
Do we still live in a world full with sexism? Well some women think that we still do. Tannen on Unmarked Woman claimed that “if you’re a woman” can’t get dressed up and go about your business because “there is no unmarked women”. As I have explained women have come from the bottom ground of society to a respected position. In fact now women are enjoying of more rights than men. We have come to a Feminist Era in where women abuse their beauty to get what they want for example Nora from Doll’s House uses her pet names when seducing Torvald in order to acquire what she wants when she states “if a little squirrel were to ask every so nicely?”(Act 1). In addition, now in the 21st century girls or women want to be treated like queen in a relationship in were the men have to satisfy them because that is showing “love” towards them. Although it is true some women are treated crap in the relationship, but this is because they have chosen to live that way. Society doesn’t demand nobody to satisfy people you have the option to decide. Men are marked in many ways for instance they have to be tough, the breadwinner, and chauvinist, but men don’t pay attention to this as much as women.
Now knowing that women have come from through hell and now are now living in heaven a being served as goddesses by men. So I totally disagree with Tannen that all women are marked by society. I believe that right now women are equal to or a step above men. Just knowing that a women had no right to vote and on the election of 2016 Hillary Clinton was about to become the first American women president. Therefore, no women in today’s society are marked they just believe there are.