The ideology of true womanhood pertained only to elite white women, and did not pertain to female slaves nor poor white women. ( chapter four power point.) Elite women set high standards to which middle and lower class women tried to achieve. The true ideology of a true womanhood is identified by four basic elements as domesticity, piety, submission and purity. To that extent white women from wealthy households succeeded in demonstrating “true womanhood” in their own lives, but they inevitably did so at the expense of other women, whose labor produced so many of the commodities and services of the perfectly domestic household. However, this created the rise of women’s status and support of feminist ideologies and the decrease of domestic ideologies.
