housewifery
Example Sentences
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Her life is airless, packed with stultifying tasks: “Japanese motherhood and its attendant housewifery is a cult,” says Mizuki.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2021
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
Or is it — could it be? — a parody of patriarchal office culture, of the mythology of the dream of suburbia and housewifery?
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2015
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
David Harcourt, meantime, had long since reached home after his interview with Miss L’Estrange, whereupon Mrs. Grover had presented him with her first specimen of housewifery in the shape of a lunch.
From The Late Tenant by Louis Tracy
