marriage to someone within one’s social group
Endogamy
marriage to someone outsides one’s social group
Exogamy
the practice of having only one sexual partner or spouse at a time
Monogamy
the notion that true womanhood centers on domestic responsibility and child rearing
Cult of Domesticity
women’s responsibility for housework and childcare - everything from cooking dinner to doing laundry, bathing children, reading bedtime stories, and sewing Halloween costumes
The Second Shift