How did the proponents of the Cult of Domesticity (or the Cult of Womenhood) argue that the woman’s sphere was separate but equal? One aspect of the cult defined the role of women as being as responsible for the moral fabric of her family. How might a middle class women have used the ideaology of being responsible for the moral fabric of her family to justify her involvement outside the home, in the reform movements- abolition, peace, communitarianism, education, temperance?