The female-dominated home must spring from a collusion (intended or not) between Puritan religious ideals and suburban commodity culture. The woman’s domain is the moral upbringing of the children, and such morality is tied (in Currier and Ives, in advertisements) to the correctly-constructed environment. Only in the suburbs is such environmental arrangement realized. Here you have the appropriate rooms, the appropriate proximity to (and distance from) the natural as well as societal world.