housewifeliness

But perfectionist claptrap such as that which Ms. Flanagan is offering and Mr. Larman defending – the insistence that the only happy family is one that follows the Cleaver model of virtuous stay-at-home housewifeliness – also constrains families and women by perpetuating the dangerous myth that parenting, and motherhood in particular, must for some reason be sacrificial.

To Hell with All That | Her Bad Mother 2006

But perfectionist claptrap such as that which Ms. Flanagan is offering and Mr. Larman defending – the insistence that the only happy family is one that follows the Cleaver model of virtuous stay-at-home housewifeliness – also constrains families and women by perpetuating the dangerous myth that parenting, and motherhood in particular, must for some reason be sacrificial.

To Hell with All That 2006

But perfectionist claptrap such as that which Ms. Flanagan is offering and Mr. Larman defending – the insistence that the only happy family is one that follows the Cleaver model of virtuous stay-at-home housewifeliness – also constrains families and women by perpetuating the dangerous myth that parenting, and motherhood in particular, must for some reason be sacrificial.

Archive 2006-04-30 2006

And she, at first astonished, was soon all deft housewifeliness, breathless officiousness, and behind my back, of her own intuitiveness, grated some dry almonds found there, and with them sprinkled the fried tench.

The Purple Cloud 1906

At a time when we're constantly being reminded that marriage is undergoing transformative change and becoming increasingly elusive for more and more women, the real housewives have professionalized the role of housewife in such a way that their housewifeliness exists almost entirely outside the parameters of marriage.

NYT > Home Page By CARINA CHOCANO 2011

When I caught up with her last year, at the Archers 'midsummer luncheon party at the Old Vicarage in Grantchester, she had abandoned any pretence of housewifeliness.

Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2009

So we grew and flourished together, -- children, dogs, birds, flowers, and all; and although my wife often, in paroxysms of housewifeliness to which the best of women are subject, would declare that we never were fit to be seen, yet I comforted her with the reflection that there were few people whose friends seemed to consider them better worth seeing, judging by the stream of visitors and loungers which was always setting towards our parlor.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various

Her mother’s compulsive housewifeliness didn’t usually bother Brianna so much except at moments like this, when the world was ending, and how nice the sheets smelled wasn’t even slightly germane.

I love this cover | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2008

You mustn't suppose she was housewifely; there is something in me that never admired housewifeliness -- a fine quality, no doubt, still -- "He sighed.

Villa Rubein, and other stories John Galsworthy 1900

You mustn't suppose she was housewifely; there is something in me that never admired housewifeliness -- a fine quality, no doubt, still -- "He sighed.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900