wifery

The "wifery" of my employer was a bare inclosure, formed by a quadrangular cluster of mud-houses, the entrance to whose court-yard was never watched save at night.

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

Outside of the reality of my parents' relationship, I didn't see many examples of enviable wifery.

Robyn Okrant: It Took a Village: Nature, Nurture and Pop Culture Robyn Okrant 2011

This sounds less a tale of animal husbandry than of animalistic husbandry and wifery.

Jonathan Handel: The Laurel Canyon Goats Are Leaving! Jonathan Handel 2011

This sounds less a tale of animal husbandry than of animalistic husbandry and wifery.

Jonathan Handel: The Laurel Canyon Goats Are Leaving! Jonathan Handel 2011

Would wither inside white picket fences and predictable wifery serving coffee and pecks every morning.

His Name Was Do Re Mi 2009

The absent while present father is a modern sort of thing, I think, that goes along with a 1950's sanitized house-wifery, rubber gloves to change the diapers, that sort of thing.

Camille Paglia, still a big Obama supporter, loves Sarah and Todd as "powerful new symbols of a revived contemporary feminism." Ann Althouse 2008

She marginalizes families in that way and perpetuates the notion that domesticity motherhood and wifery is unimportant and inferior in comparison to having a career and leading a public life.

The “Opt-Out Revolution” Is A Myth 2005

It was a vocation that had fitted him as coursing fits a hound, or house-wifery a woman.

Australia Felix 2003

The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the tendency of its users to forgo its nuanced, complex, mid-wifery properties for menace and subjugation.

Toni Morrison - Nobel Lecture 1997

The worst of house-wifery was always its invisibility.

WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories Holland, Barbara 1999