housewifery

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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

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

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

On the other hand, though the most serious charges against his wife seem to rest on no foundation, it is certain that she had little aptitude for housewifery.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George