Housewife (noun)

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 617.

1. A warehouse foreman's wife says: I mind writing housewife on a form. 2. And more than half the women interviewed hate the label housewife because it sounds so patronising. 3. But are housewives happy with their lot? 4. But the addition of paid work to the housewife's activities does not mean that she is no longer a housewife. 5. Is she to give up being a housewife, put the children in a day-care centre and take paid work? 6. She didn't want to take him back, she hated the idea, but she was a middle-aged housewife. 7. She was an Ohio housewife with three kids when she got the idea to write a funny column for the local newspaper. 8. The popular image of Mrs Beeton as a middle-aged housewife given to the confection of extravagant recipes is doubly mistaken. 9. Adam cleared away and washed up, happy to act as housewife while he was still unemployed. 10. It would have been much more fun, don't you think, if they'd dressed as housewives. 11. Watchers assumed they were film-stars or monarchs, but looked in their programmes and found each woman self-labelled as an ordinary housewife. 12. This presents a problem for many women, because as a housewife you are not paid. 13. Conception of oneself as a housewife or not is liable to influence a woman's behaviour in a variety of ways. 14. I do think of myself as a housewife. 15. I muttered like a fractious housewife. 16. Today, dressed like a housewife, she looked more human than usual, less distantly dignified. 17. He waved to her from the gate, where she stood like any housewife seeing off her man. 18. Phoebe began to feel like a housewife. 19. One was a 68-year-old lawyer, the other a 73-year-old housewife. 20. For this reason an assessment was made for all the forty women of their levels of identification with the housewife role. 21. A second possibility is that social ranking of wife or housewife roles varies with different socio-economic contexts. 22. The performance of the housewife role in adulthood is prefaced by a long period of apprenticeship. 23. There are also indications from other sources that women's basic allegiance to the housewife role is not class-dependent. 24. This would be evidence against the present finding that identification with the housewife role is not differentiated by class. 25. This suggests that the personal identification of women with the housewife role weights the balance in favour of a psychological involvement in housework.