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

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

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

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 Burt, Katharine Newlin