housewifery
Example Sentences
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But by his side we also have Samuel Richardson, whose novel “Pamela” was a blueprint for how chaste women should behave in the face of avid pursuit, encouraging a zeal for housewifery.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2020
The tension between socially acceptable housewifery and creative ambition is certainly easy to find in Jackson’s life, but it’s rather harder to locate in her fiction.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2016
Franklin sees these themes as “profoundly interconnected” — different versions of women’s tensions in the 1950s when they were expected to express all their creative energies in housewifery.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2016
Their friends and neighbors, attracted by the games, food, and company, attended as a respite from the tedium of housewifery.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2014
In the lives of most women, of the vast majority, the clatter and clash of housewifery prelude and postlude the spring song of their years.
From The Branding Iron by Katharine Newlin Burt
