Which statement is true about the mid-nineteenth-century phenomenon known as the "cult of domesticity"?

A) The household gained prominence as the center of economic production, and women, as a result, exercised more economic power than ever before.
B) The ideal middle-class home became a porous, semi-public sphere, merged with the competitive tensions of the market economy.
C) Birth rates increased among middle-class women, who embraced their new role as rulers of the household.
D) Women were no longer expected to embody submission, frailty, or sexual innocence.
E) While men moved freely between public and private spheres, women were expected to remain within the private domestic realm.