housewifery

Example Sentences

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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

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

She is so zealous in her housewifery, that, at times, she gets up in the middle of the night, and dusts everything anew.

From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin