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

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

Last week, feminists celebrated the 50th anniversary of Betty Friedan’s book, which explores the ways in which traditional conceptions of motherhood and housewifery stifle and demean women and diminish society as a whole.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2013

There was evidently some decided incongruity between the old Scotchman's statement and his quaint housewifery, as he wrapped a cloth reduced to strings around a fork and washed out a coffee-pot with the improvised mop.

From Told In The Hills by Ryan, Marah Ellis