Abstract
The cult of domesticity is a belief in the process of homemaking and nurturing. Central to this is the mother figure and the home as site of safety but also social status. Expectations of cleanliness were inculcated into racial, gendered, and cultural ideals of domesticity through colonialism and then extended in the Western appliance revolution. The gender compass of domesticity is shifting with deepening understandings of sexualities and belonging.
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