housewifery
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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
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
He went into a dissertation on the unsurpassed excellence of Dutch housewifery, and extolled the Dutchwoman’s knowledge in all branches of cookery, and the special preparation of the produce of the country.
From The Shadow of the Past by Young, F.E. Mills
