housewifery
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
I haven’t liked the housewifery, not at all.
From A Daughter of the Forest by Raymond, Evelyn
