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housewifery

[hous-wahy-fuh-ree, -wahyf-ree] / ˈhaʊsˌwaɪ fə ri, -ˌwaɪf ri /
NOUN
housekeeping
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Most of the pundits and influencers making this argument frame housewifery as an escape from the stress of modern working life.

From Salon Sep. 15, 2025

She told the online publication Literary Hub that the theater company was her opportunity to “leave housewifery behind.”

From Washington Post Aug. 15, 2022

The writer Joanne Stang called her the “virtually uncontested popularity queen of weekly television,” marveling that Ms. Moore “has made housewifery a highly palatable pastime.”

From New York Times Jan. 25, 2017

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

But thanks to nautical housewifery, its richness could not be enjoyed from the decks.

From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 by Joseph Holt Ingraham




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