housewifery

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I said to my girlfriends, "Full-time mothering and housewifery is way harder than what I do for work. Much harder. And there's way more at stake, obviously."

From Salon • Dec. 14, 2022

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

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

But thanks to nautical housewifery, its richness could not be enjoyed from the decks.

From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 by Ingraham, Joseph Holt