Meaning of housewivery | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

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“The women teach⟳ their daughters from their youths vpwards, to bake bread, and to grind⟳ Millia, with other Houſewiuery; whereby it commeth to paſſe, that they haue good skill in houſe-keeping, becauſe they are brought vp therein from their youths.”

“So long as they can marry⟳ morally, ſuch as are free from groſſe crimes, uncleanneſſe, riot, alehouſe-haunting, and the like⟳: ſuch as are of a ſweet carriage, faſhionable, and compleat, brought up well to a pleaſing and outwardly gracefull behaviour; eſpecially, if there be any meanes to live⟳ competently in the world, good husbandry and houſewivery; oh, they thinke their choice is excellent; yea, when children themſelves ſtagger for conſcience ſake, at ſuch offers, yet their parents are earneſt for the match⟳, and vexe themſelves to ſee their children ſo preciſe. […] Fifthly to his family ſhee is an abſolute helper by neceſſity, and cannot be ſpared: not onely in point⟳ of houſewivery, but alſo in the diſpencing the Affayres of it within.”

“By her complexion, ſhe ſeems rather made of chalk or marle, than that red earth Adam was made of; though ſhe be ſo meager a ſoile, ſhe grows never the fatter by it; yet one knows not what a good Husbandman may do, for they ſay, a good Husband would remedy all; but he muſt take⟳ her on credit then, both for Beauty and good houſewivery; few elſe would venture on her complexion, and ſuch a quality, as if ſhe hold⟳ on as ſhe begins, ſhe ſoon would eat⟳ her husband out of houſe and home: […]”

“8. Bare walls make⟳ giddy houſe-wives. 8. i. e, Idle houſe-wives, they having nothing whereabout to buſie themſelves and ſhew their good houſewivery. […] One utterly ignorant of countrey affairs, of husbandry and houſewivery as there practiſed.”

“This tale, no doubt⟳, is written in consequence of the rubbish that has appeared in the Times, in the shape⟳ of letters on the question⟳, “Can a man marry⟳ with £300. a-year?” There are many practical replies to this interrogatory, in this country; thousands upon thousands of families are living in elegant ease and unequivocal respectability upon £300. a-year, and less; educating and supporting their children in a creditable manner, under the management of notable housewivery.”

“Pro-Family believes that the measure⟳ is at odds with the role of women as family makers and is, therefore, in harmony with a “radical feminism” that wishes “to change⟳ that.” Pro-Family indicts radical feminists, whatever that means, as the villains of the piece and quote a feminist author as describing housewivery as “an illegitimate profession.””

“Neither seemed to understand⟳ what they perceived as the American obsession with money, the feverish emphasis on career, and the devil-may-care attitude toward family. Yet both readily will readily^([sic]) admit⟳ that America offered, and still offers, the opportunity to escape⟳ from the^([sic]) what they called the subtle imprisonment of housewivery, the Irish tradition that ties a woman to her husband’s circumstance.”

“Hawn’s feisty side — whether she’s rebelling against cheap caviar or overwhelming housewivery — gives “Overboard” its energy and direction.”

“Focus⟳ of the play’s attention is Maura Vaughn’s character of Mrs. Los Angeles, a former WAC who has so far convinced herself she’s happy to have⟳ regressed to housewivery. She is attempting to fit the contest’s vision of the typical American homemaker while remaining her own⟳ woman.”

“We even learned this weekend that housewivery has become⟳ so unusual that two Vassar University women were forming a group called "Future Housewives of America." You know⟳ the number⟳ of housewives are dwindling ever smaller when a two-woman college club makes national news.”

“Though bathed in a culture of money literally head to toe ([…]), Mary Cullerton could not have⟳ been less suited to the country-club blandness of upper-class, suburban housewivery in the 1960s and ’70s. She was too much of a square peg, too loud, too extravagant in her phobias, opinions, rages and oomph and clearly too three-dimensional for the rest⟳ of the world.”

“As prior to her career in housewivery, Margaret continues to host⟳ the weekly program⟳ “The Nest with Magpie” on WSPJ-LP FM Syracuse; […]”

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