How To Use Housewife In A Sentence

A series of essays from various regular Americans on love, work, and life in the United States, including a housewife and supermarket checker.
Obviously, then, the average romance reader is not the undereducated, uninformed, subnormal, frustrated housewife of recent mythology.
His father worked on building sites, his mother was a housewife.
French language (a thing indispensable to the happiness of married life), piano-playing (a thing wherewith to beguile a husband’s leisure moments), and that particular department of housewifery which is comprised in the knitting of purses and other Dead Souls
The other illuminati are equally insignificant from a social point of view: Mary Hare, an elderly spinster; Ruth Godbold, a poor and hard-working housewife; and Alf Dubbo, a part-Aboriginal painter. Patrick White - Existential Explorer

Williams is to play an unhappy housewife who decides a lobotomy will cure her depression.
I am a housewife raising a family, paying a mortgage and doing the usual things that people do.
A limerick novelist has just launched her second novel, a tale of a bored housewife with a dark secret.
Indeed, Moulsworth vows to transmute the faulty model provided by the Biblical Martha, the archetypal busy housewife: Moulsworth plans to "dight" (or make ready) her "Inward house" (l. 19) and thus prepare an appropriate habitation for Christ. My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem
Their reference is to the middle-class norm of the discontented housewife.
This suggests that the personal identification of women with the housewife role weights the balance in favour of a psychological involvement in housework.
A provincial housewife and a married doctor meet at a railway station and subsequently fall in love.
A middle-aged lady appeared, clad in tweeds, more like a squiress than a Valleys housewife. GOODBYE CURATE
All I have is an overweight, overbeaten housewife spouting GOP nonsense and saying that a woman can't have a career AND a kid. Sound Politics: Darcy Burnocchio
Alex and Ben augmented the ziti with a spread from a local housewife turned illustrious caterer. AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
It is a sweet and pretty countenance that can become contorted into a Munchian shriek, a child's importunate obstinacy, a beleaguered housewife's exasperation, a hectoring soldier's grimace, or anything else.
The housewife in this context, with all her caring and household management skills, is dispensable provided you have enough money to purchase the aggregate labour required to fulfil her role.
Her mother was a traditional housewife who was subservient to her husband and was socially isolated because she spoke only a Chinese dialect called Hakka. Crazy Like Us
He remembers her as a non-stereotypical 1950s housewife, riding her white bicycle down the middle of the high street while smoking a Woodbine and wearing rubber, high-heeled glitter-flecked galoshes.
They look very 70s conserative country club housewifey. I Am Almost There - A Dress A Day
He claimed she had given up her glittering legal career to be a dutiful housewife. Times, Sunday Times
a typical case was the suburban housewife described by a marriage counselor
Quirky women have long had success on TV, from klutzy housewife Lucy Ricardo, who helped make "I Love Lucy" the most popular program on air during its run, to Mary Richards, the single gal TV producer on "The Mary Tyler Moore" show. A Hit Show Hits the Pause Button
Their reference is to the middle-class norm of the discontented housewife.
She catalogues the experience of the Welsh housewife and the changes instigated by the introduction of electricity.
The second mistake is insuring the family's breadwinner and forgetting to insure a non-working partner, such as a housewife or house husband.
She said rather unfriendlily that she didn’t carry a housewife when she went bathing and hadn’t I got a scarf I could use? Tour de Force
Each receipt is an act of maternal and housewifely earnestness. The English Civil War: A People's History
In Germany, as a housewife and mother of two young children, she began to write.
Television pundits lambasted her image as a frumpy housewife who delivered dull speeches while clad in dowdy grey or brown suits.
A Liverpudlian housewife is freed from her humdrum existence when a Greek holiday offers her the chance to experience the good life. The Sun
I dare say Vicki is my favorite Housewife, despite her ogre-like bossiness and constant smothering. 'Real Housewives of O.C.' recap: The girls return | EW.com
Layla Abdel-Qader, 49, a housewife, said she buys kerosene from the vendors every winter. Kerosene shortage spurs thriving resale market
His father was a merchant navy officer and his mother a housewife. Times, Sunday Times
The foot on the cradle, the hand on the distaff, a sign of good housewife.
_why_ wool is soft, and fur fine, and cotton downy, and down downier; and how a flax fiber differs from a dandelion stalk, and how the substance of a mulberry leaf can become velvet for Queen Victoria's crown, and clothing of purple for the housewife of Solomon. On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
No matter you are full-time housewife or fashionable white-collar, can you love so spell able tableware ?
The other one is my familiarity with a bunch of other languages (and having lived in France and Hong Kong) ... beneath this housewifey exterior lurks a polyglot. Guest Blogger Robin Burcell
The only son of a textile factory worker and housewife, as he grew up he helped with the family smallholding. Times, Sunday Times
Maxwell deftly paints Phyllis as the rich, suburban housewife, but makes damn sure we can see the tigress that once ensnared Ben. Martin Maidenberg: So Much To Love, So Much To Regret
The test known as candling, which is usually applied to eggs before they are put on the market, can also be practiced by the housewife in the home. Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables
My father was a farmer and my mother a housewife. Times, Sunday Times
She is a full-time mum and housewife who enjoys singing at her local karaoke.
It's a classic case of the bored-housewife syndrome - she's got nothing to do all day except drink and go shopping.
They have no education, no taste for reading, no housewifery, nor indeed any earthly occupation, but that of dressing their hair, and adorning their bodies.
His stepfather was an autoworker, while his mother became a housewife and sometimes worked as a sales-person at department stores.
The latter proclaims that it educates future leaders in a noble tradition when in fact it ushers future leaders' wives into the art of housewifery.
As you take great interest in housewifery concerns, I shall send you a recipe for what we call hop - rising*. The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America
His father was county surveyor for Powys and his mother a housewife. Times, Sunday Times
housewifely virtues
I knew this wasn't the case -- but if women believed that marriage meant the gift of a spouse who made a home for them, a "helpmate" who nurtured them, who made a social life possible, a mother who took care of their children, and a nurseful listener who was charming in uncharming situations -- if that was the case, then women propose on bended knee faster than you can say "diary-of-a-mad-housewife. Susie Bright: Are You a Marryin' Fool?
For audiences at the Liverpool Playhouse it is difficult to imagine anyone who could portray the bored middle-aged housewife so well.
Her father was a plastics manufacturer in Manchester and her mother a housewife. Times, Sunday Times
Conception of oneself as a housewife or not is liable to influence a woman's behaviour in a variety of ways.
My households suffer from neglect rather than housewifely pride. Times, Sunday Times
A typical case was the suburban housewife described by a marriage counselor.
The only son of a textile factory worker and housewife, as he grew up he helped with the family smallholding. Times, Sunday Times
The Laois housewife and mother won yet another senior national cross-country championship at the Aer Lingus Sports Centre on Sunday.
Instead of brick courtyards and side-lit rooms where music is played and good housewifery rules, we have boats, meads, cows, horsemen and horsewomen.
Many times it's easy for the housewife to think that she has no marketable skills, but this is typically a combination of low self-esteem and a lack of self-examination," says Dr. Potter.
etc. — all rather in the spirit of the suburban housewife with one downtrodden cook-general. Collected Essays
It used to be the stuff of housewifely fantasies - now it's something young professionals can take for granted.
While shopping in New York City, our discontented housewife gets caught in a furious windstorm.
His mother was a housewife and his father a forestry worker with his own timber business. Times, Sunday Times
Conception of oneself as a housewife or not is liable to influence a woman's behaviour in a variety of ways.
The stereotypical gobbler of romantic novels was the suburban housewife, who used fables on passionate love as an escape from the bored drudgery and emotional pragmatism of real life.
Their continued popularity is, I suspect, due to their unfashionable, housewifely nature.
The cash-strapped collegian or the thrifty housewife would certainly understand this logic.
Considine had proved himself with his 2007 Bafta-winning short Dog Altogether, which starred Mullan as Joseph, a violent, widowed, unemployed self-hating drunk who meets a middle-class housewife Colman in a charity shop. Paddy Considine: 'I'm trying to make sense of a lot of things'
This hamadryad was destined in the outcome to dwindle into a village housewife, she would have taken a lively interest in the number of eggs the hens were laying, she would even have assured her children, precisely in the way her father spoke of John Hughes, that young people ordinarily have foolish fancies which their rational elders agree to disregard. The Certain Hour
Their reference is to the middle-class norm of the discontented housewife.
Neither did they establish their claims to gentility at the expense of their tailors, for as yet those offenders against the pockets of society and the tranquility of all aspiring young gentlemen were unknown in New Amsterdam; every good housewife made the clothes of her husband and family, and even the goede vrouw of Van Twiller himself thought it no disparagement to cut out her husband's linsey-woolsey galligaskins. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
Househusband, like housewife the household as main occupation.
By the way, “hussy” comes from archaic English “housewife” at the time pronounced “hussif”. Regretsy – Regrebay
His mother was a housewife and his father a saxophonist. Times, Sunday Times
Sometimes being a mother and a housewife felt like a thankless task .
The guidebook has a section on "Housewifery" which reads, "Every Girl Scout is as much a ‘hussif 'as she is a girl. "Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930
My father was a civil engineer and my mother was a housewife. Times, Sunday Times
Born in 1946, the son of an electrician, his mother a housewife, Boyle was raised in a family that placed great store by a moral code.
She's been likened to Lorena Bobbitt, a hellish housewife, described as witchy, a she-devil, anti - male, a strip teaser. CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2008
`chronic fatigue syndrome' was known by the dismissive term `housewife syndrome'
The housewife of Jaffna, being thrifty, makes minimum use of ingredients to turn out simple, wholesome fare.
The full time housewife's life was stultifying.
The housewife in this context, with all her caring and household management skills, is dispensable provided you have enough money to purchase the aggregate labour required to fulfil her role.
I hated the label 'housewife'.
I was brought up to believe in the modern myth that housekeeping is only drudgery, and the housewife is a downtrodden martyr. The Symphony of Supper-Time
In Cornwall no housewife would scour or scrub on Childermas, and in Northamptonshire it was considered very unlucky to begin any undertaking or even to do washing throughout the year on the day of the week on which the feast fell. Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan
Then there are the usual housewifely chores - planning the menu, getting odd jobs done around the house.
His father was an engineer, his mother a housewife. Times, Sunday Times
His father was a merchant navy officer and his mother a housewife. Times, Sunday Times
Every housewife's dream is - drum roll, please - self-cleaning windows.
Answer: a love triangle involving two escaped convicts and a bored housewife. Times, Sunday Times
But when they had reached this princes famous halls, they sat down all orderly on seats and high chairs; and when they were come, the old man mixed well for them a bowl of sweet wine, which now in the eleventh year from the vintaging the housewife opened, and unloosed the string that fastened the lid. Book III
Set at the beginning of the Second World War, the one-off drama follows six turbulent years in the life of a real Lancashire housewife.
He claimed she had given up her glittering legal career to be a dutiful housewife. Times, Sunday Times
So I have to do housewifey things (the reorganization of my office) in order to not feel like I should be dong housewifey things (because I can't see the house's Problem Areas from my office). Odin's Day
Housewife's choice I wish you and your staff to know how sorry I am that Punch is to be no more.
It was clear that many viewed the famed incompetence of the modern English housewife and mother with bemusement. Times, Sunday Times
Lucy Ricardo was, in those early I Love Lucy episodes, just a generic daffy housewife. Ethel (Vivian Vance), her neighbor and landlady, was a stock busybody.
She may be the colaborer of the business man, the overworked housewife of the tiller of the soil, the colleague of the professional man, or the wife of the leisure man of wealth; nevertheless, in every normal woman in every station of life there lurks the conscious or sub-conscious maternal instinct. The Mother and Her Child
A lonely housewife starts up a friendship with a pet portrait painter.
Among the attendees was a housewife who has attended the protest rally every year.
Every housewife stacking her shelves should be proud to have her tins of beans stamped with a such a badge of high distinction.
Blake is particularly captivating, moving between sober housewife and mother, to girlish seductress and committed adulteress with believable veracity, consistently evoking sympathy.
Herbals are doubtless collected by many who are not possessed of medical knowledge, and a number of them treat more of simples and housewifery than leechcraft, which is probably one reason of their attraction for the non-medical collector. The Book-Hunter at Home
Marriage to Yoshiki Kuroda, a Tokyo urban planner, means the only daughter of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko must leave the sequestered environment of the Imperial family for a new life as a housewife.
She recalls her mother's initial disappointment when she abandoned architecture to take up cooking - a career that had a housewifely ring to it.
Because sao cook has the same pronunciation as the word for an older woman, when Chinese hear the term "ma da sao," they usually picture a housewife. CNN.com
It's a classic case of the bored-housewife syndrome - she's got nothing to do all day except drink and go shopping.
The premise is a simple one - Germaine Lauzon, mother and housewife, has won a whopping one million stamps in an annual contest.
Every housewife stacking her shelves should be proud to have her tins of beans stamped with a such a badge of high distinction.
Dominguez's tattered adorableness at the beginning, the way she warbles about what Glen Campbell would call the dreams of an everyday housewife, her lambent and then incandescent love for Seymour, all this she conveys with passion and conviction. James Scarborough: Little Shop of Horrors, STAGEStheatre, Fullerton
She has bucked the trend of every heavy-tressed, hennaed housewife.
A housewife who was kidnapped on Friday morning was released yesterday by her abductors.
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The housewife's term for a ball of thread wound upon a central body, is a _bottom of thread_. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
But luckily the housewife saw it, and she nipped it between her finger and thumb, and, because it was only half-baked, it fell with a "splatch" on the cold floor. Good Stories for Holidays
During the bus boycott, local civil rights leaders described her to the press as “mild-mannered and soft-spoken,” a “lady . . . who was too sweet to even say damn in anger,” and “a typical American housewife.” A Renegade History of the United States
When Bernadette Peters's character, Sally Plummer—a diminished, out-of-love housewife—arrived to the reunion in a bright-red dress, some "Follies" purists felt she looked too va-va-voom. 'Follies' Costume Drama
Like many other Shanghai residents, housewife Sheng Chongming has sunned clothes and quilts from her balcony for dozens of years.
Catching him looking at her in a mirror during their engagement, she sees herself as he sees her, ‘with the assessing eye of a connoisseur inspecting horseflesh, or even of a housewife in the market, inspecting cuts on the slab’.
She was a famous housewife, ruling her little tsardom magnificently; she knew the ways, the vices and the virtues of mankind as they are set out in the Ten Commandments and the The Precipice
But, as I sit down today to write this article, a business executive with an industrial firm on the Eastern seaboard is telephoning a bookmaker to place a fifty-dollar bet on a horse race; a factory worker in a Midwestern town is standing at a lunch counter filling out a basketball parlay card on which he will wager two dollars; a housewife in a West Coast suburb is handing a dime to a policy writer who operates a newsstand as a front near the supermarket where she shops. The Baleful Influence of Gambling
Her planned future, teaching small Swedes, marriage to a Dane, the life of a conventional housewife, seemed remote and unromantic.
Only a year ago, she was a mother of six, farmer's wife and a housewife.
And more than half the women interviewed hate the label housewife because it sounds so patronising.
His mother was a housewife and his father a forestry worker with his own timber business. Times, Sunday Times
Cooking and "housewifery" isn't shown to be wrong; it's just shown to not be what Callie likes doing. A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy
GAZİANTEP - After collecting historical artifacts in her home, housewife Füsun İşsever has bought a historical Gaziantep house, restored it and turned it into a museum. Turkish Housewife Opens Her Own Museum
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I don't want to be a housewife after marriage.
Sandy, who had been primarily a housewife in her former marriage, wanted an equal partnership and full-time work.
She an unhappy housewife condemned to spend hours at the kitchen sink.
My Mum was a typical housewife, loved housework and didn't feel I should really do anything round the house.
This latest backward glance is more lonely lunchtime housewife than supper-club romance or hell-of-a-day blues.
‘housewife’ and ‘hussey’; ‘hanaper’ and ‘hamper’; ‘puisne’ and ‘puny’; English Past and Present
Her mother, Bettine, was a housewife who bred bouvier dogs.
Waller's gift is to make the housewife feel virtuous afterward.
She is now a housewife and full-time mum to her children.
And then he would bow in his paint-spattered coveralls, the drywall contractor with the dimpled chin and eyes as blue as the lake, and she would curtsy in her polyester slacks and Ban-Lon shirt, the housewife with the waves of hair and the smile that could light up the sky, and they would whirl around the living room while I watched from the kitchen, sheepish but happy. The Hanging Tree
The implication in his article is that being a housewife is greatly inferior to every other occupation.
The implication in his article is that being a housewife is greatly inferior to every other occupation.
A washing machine and a refrigerator were luxuries which made the life of the housewife much easier.
Starting her own record label with the money she's gotten in a divorce settlement from her ex-husband Abe, Anna is disparagingly called a ‘housewife’ by her wormy former brother-in-law Ben.
A prosecutor described in nightmarish detail Thursday the rape, mutilation and killing of a suburban housewife, allegedly at the hands of a worker who was supposed to be power-washing her deck. “They Only Come to Work” — A Refutation
Karl Lagerfeld, whose muse for Chanel Couture must be equal parts geisha, schoolgirl and American housewife circa late '50s/early' 60s, placed sugary sweet bows in each girls 'bouffant' do. Luxist
Her descent into madness - from the efficient and beautiful, puffy-cheeked housewife, to the distraught and unhinged, hollow-eyed fragment of her former self - is one cinema's most overlooked performances.
The first from Bohemian Rhapsody era and the other from I Wanna Break Free moustachio-ed housewife video. Two Nights Out
She genuinely wanted to be a good mother and housewife. Times, Sunday Times
Her appearance to be sure was decent, and she was always distinguished by the name of Miss, and she was taught just to read and write, and a little plain housewifery with her needle. The History of Miss Sally Johnson; or, the Unfortunate Magdalen
Before he executed this duty, however, the unfortunate man opened what he called a locker -- what a housewife would term a cupboard -- and fortified his nerves with a strong draught of pure Nantes; a liquor that no hostilities, custom-house duties, or national antipathies, has ever been able to bring into general disrepute in the British Islands. The Two Admirals
I was brought up to believe in the modern myth that housekeeping is only drudgery, and the housewife is a downtrodden martyr. Archive 2008-10-01
Is a conception of self as housewife in fact articulated as part of the self-image?
After years of playing the dutiful housewife, she felt stripped of any identity. Times, Sunday Times
He choofs off to work every morning and brings home the bread and I stay home and do housewifey things.
We'll just start calling you SSH for short - as in shh, the staid suburban housewife has a secret glamorous life as a bestselling author ... Romantic Times
Cheerful they were withal, for they soon began to flit hither and thither, following the motions of Jean's "eident hand" with most housewifely care. Olive A Novel
Break out the earplugs, another “Real Housewife” is hitting the recording industry — thanks to the magic of autotune! Danielle Staub Congress Run?
From a GP and a housewife to newlyweds and old school friends, these contestants will be tasked with disappearing completely for five weeks. The Sun
You would scarcely imagine that this copper is deemed worthy to be hoarded; yet such is the people's aversion from the paper, and such their mistrust of the government, that not an housewife will part with one of these pieces while she has an assignat in her possession; and those who are rich enough to keep a few livres by them, amass and bury this copper treasure with the utmost solicitude and secresy. A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part II., 1793 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
I now make this for my own family, though I use organic peppers and nitrate/sulphite/additive-free sausage – things that did not even hit the radar of an economically-minded housewife in the 70s and 80s. Archive 2009-08-01
This instills guilt - how can I be sitting here writing when I have housewifey things I ought to be doing? Odin's Day
A working-class housewife married to a machine operator declares: Housework is boring.
Right now it's by my sink looking all sweet and housewifey with the Mrs. Meyers basil dish soap on it. Archive 2009-08-01
I wish all of these half-educated enemedia filth would go on Celebrity Jeopardy like Wolf Blitzer so we could dispose once and for all of the notion that they are any smarter than your average unemployed Alaskan housewife. The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Reinhardt’s Dig on Sarah Palin
[Prosecutor describes housewife's rape, killing in grisly detail, Newsday, March 24, 2006]. VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » “They Only Come to Work” — A Refutation
She turned her attention to the domestic work of housewifery, besides continuing her literary efforts at revising her writings.
At this point, the regime began to get nervous about the spread of associationism, and it responded by refusing to legalize more independent housewife organizations.
My mother was a housewife - the heart of the family. Times, Sunday Times
Her personal transformation from housewife to activist is astonishing. Times, Sunday Times
This would be evidence against the present finding that identification with the housewife role is not differentiated by class.
The fairy asked Puck if he was not the knavish spirit that frightened the maidens of the villagery, that skimmed milk, and sometimes laboured in the green, and bootless made the housewife churn, and sometimes made the drink to bear no barm, and whether Puck did not mislead night wanderers, and then laugh at their harm, and do the work of hobgoblins? The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
The cast, without exception, is superb, with Moore the pick of the bunch as the dutiful housewife.
The implication in his article is that being a housewife is greatly inferior to every other occupation.
The company is looking for products which will be popular with the typical European housewife rather than tourists.
After years of playing the dutiful housewife, she felt stripped of any identity. Times, Sunday Times
Stanczyk, a married housewife from Rockaway Beach, was walking her terrier, Psotka - Polish for "prankster" - when she wound up in a confrontation with two uniformed officers from the 100th Precinct, Shaun Grossweiler and Richard DeMartino. Ann Stanczyk Claims NYPD Beat Her For Not Picking Up After Her Dog
Pointedly, the book vilifies the usurper Eve but saves its most caustic bitchiness for the bland dilettante-housewife Karen.
His father worked in coat manufacturing, his mother was a housewife. Times, Sunday Times
Mrs. Poyser has something almost of Yankee shrewdness and angularity; but the figure of a New England rural housewife would lack a whole range of Mrs. Poyser's feelings, which, whatever may be its effect in real life, gives its subject in a novel at least a very picturesque richness of color; the constant sense, namely, of a superincumbent layer of "gentlefolks," whom she and her companions can never raise their heads unduly without hitting. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866
the housewife bored us with her domestically limited conversation
It's a classic case of the bored-housewife syndrome - she's got nothing to do all day except drink and go shopping.
My mother was a housewife. Times, Sunday Times
‘Ladies and gentlemen, I am a desperate housewife,’ announced the first lady, referring to the raunchy TV sitcom oozing with sex-starved housewives on ABC these days.
People, mostly women, felt suddenly obliged to ignite their creativity with their housewifery.
She drew an analogy between running the economy and a housewife's weekly budget.
The implication in his article is that being a housewife is greatly inferior to every other occupation.
It looks a little "housewifey" to be but in today's political climate, you'll be right in style! Core Competency - A Dress A Day
His father is a business consultant and his mother a housewife. Times, Sunday Times
Now, San Antonio, what is so dreadful about "housewifey? Core Competency - A Dress A Day
Bolden is known for repping clients in awkward spots -- the contractors accused of getting a city deal via Fenty frat-brother favoritism, White House crasher Carlos Allen, "Real Housewife" Cat Ommanney. D.C. lawyer out of his comfort zone on Kilimanjaro hike
His father was an insurance broker and his mother a housewife. Times, Sunday Times
We were introduced to Mrs Taylor, alias Meg Dods, author of the Housewife's Manual.
Both hussy and housewife have their origin in Old English huswif, but hussy has undergone semantic derogation.
The only son of a textile factory worker and housewife, as he grew up he helped with the family smallholding. Times, Sunday Times
Margarethe begins to sulk at Henrika and, from time to time, to disagree pointedly, even noisily, over methods of housewifery. CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
Their father was an engineer and draughtsman who ran his own business and their mother was a housewife. Times, Sunday Times
In previous eras girls usually followed a distinctive curriculum, such as the polite accomplishments or the housewifely curriculum or cultural studies or domestic science courses.
Replacing the 1950s housewife with the 1990s superwoman is not a social revolution.
She ate and drank the same things on a weekly cycle, observing the economies and the details of good housewifery.

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