housewifery
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of housewifery
First recorded in 1400–50, housewifery is from the late Middle English word huswyfery. See housewife, -ery
Example Sentences
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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
Last week, feminists celebrated the 50th anniversary of Betty Friedan’s book, which explores the ways in which traditional conceptions of motherhood and housewifery stifle and demean women and diminish society as a whole.
From Salon • Feb. 25, 2013
She is so zealous in her housewifery, that, at times, she gets up in the middle of the night, and dusts everything anew.
From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin
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