housewifery

Example Sentences

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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

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