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

She told the online publication Literary Hub that the theater company was her opportunity to “leave housewifery behind.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2022

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

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

David Harcourt, meantime, had long since reached home after his interview with Miss L’Estrange, whereupon Mrs. Grover had presented him with her first specimen of housewifery in the shape of a lunch.

From The Late Tenant by Tracy, Louis