Meaning of housewively | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [C1]

Examples

“It is ſpoken of a houſewively maid that grows idle after marriage.”

“The sweet-frosted dream of Ms. Tranor’s generation turned into the bitter bread of struggle. Housewively boredom did much to end the American dream. By grasping, they lost.”

“The clearest form of discrimination was at higher education level where 2-year community colleges in effect prepared young women for marriage and housewively duties.”

“It appears that by this time it was acceptable for women in England to be selling ale outside the home, and to take the consequences. What had started as a housewively task had become a trade.”

“With the end of the war, there was a resurgence of pre-war gender roles: many women who had taken jobs in the public sphere during the war were unceremoniously fired and returned to the domestic sphere, where they were once again expected to perform traditional housewively duties, while men were expected to take up the role of provider and breadwinner.”

“I avoid swamping the reader in the stereotyped recurrent housewively discourse.”

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