Today’s tradwives rework the ideals of the early 20th-century German housewives’ movement.
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If you’re considering a soft life, you may want to ask why the housewife disappeared in the first place.
I recently visited four historic houses in Victoria that are open to the public to get a better understanding of women who worked from home.
While most heterosexual couples are dual-earners, super rich couples continue to have gender-traditional arrangements in which the man is the sole breadwinner.
Battling shortages and rising food and fuel prices, housewives played a vital part in Britain’s first experience of ‘total war’.
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Professor Emerita of Modern British History, Keele University
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Professor, Architecture, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Leverhulme Research Fellow, Imperial and Weimar Germany, University of Leeds
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Professor of Sociology, Lund University