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

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

Or is it — could it be? — a parody of patriarchal office culture, of the mythology of the dream of suburbia and housewifery?

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2015

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

This disgrace to her housewifery affected Mrs. Macdonald almost as feelingly as the danger they were in.

From The True Story Book by Lang, Andrew