This new study challenges the dominant images of women's domesticity. From LearnThat.org.
A royal family living in unpretentious domesticity. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Making a hobby of domesticity. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Later, following my adventures in domesticity, I drove out to Redmond to meet gaaneden for afternoon tea. From Wordnik.com. [Yes, I know. It's been a couple of days.] Reference
His sister, Mary, is trapped in domesticity, caring for her ailing, dotty father and her maddening mother. From Wordnik.com. [The Lambs of London: Summary and book reviews of The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd.] Reference
But the roof of their domesticity is shaking, ready to be blown away along with other houses in their neighborhood. From Wordnik.com. [The Cyclical Night] Reference
As I commented on your review post - his genuine-sounding words about how great domesticity is really jumped out at me. From Wordnik.com. [More Doctor Who Updating...for the Easter Special] Reference
Here is a glimmer of eternity framed in domesticity. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Miniver] Reference
9 September, 2008 in domesticity, food and recipes, real life. From Wordnik.com. [chicken parmesan. « Love | Peace | Ohana] Reference
The starting point is domesticity, which isn't sitting well with Shrek at all. From Wordnik.com. [Even with a third dimension,] Reference
3 January, 2009 in domesticity, momma-ing, real life | Tags: ranty mcrant rant. From Wordnik.com. [baby clothes. « Love | Peace | Ohana] Reference
And in marriage, with luck, something else comes to take its place ... domesticity, which is very sweet to a woman. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
28 December, 2009 in domesticity, now with pictures, real life | Tags: babywearing, ps my boyfriend is awesome, vacation. From Wordnik.com. [babywearing! « Love | Peace | Ohana] Reference
In fact, Zittel might be to "domesticity," what Serra is to a steelworker: the far end of the imagined possibility. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
For me, doing the dishes—any kind of domesticity—is a dialogue with my mother, who died last year on November 1. From Wordnik.com. [Dialoguing with the Dead] Reference
The householder practising the fourth kind of domesticity should observe only one duty (viz., learning the scriptures). From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
So we have nut trees that give us this connotation of domesticity. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting Downington, Pennsylvania, September 11 and 12, 1933] Reference
Twice married he never ceased to eulogize the bliss of domesticity. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
I often think of you, Eleanor, in your peaceful domesticity at Copthorne. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
But here were two American women and a little girl -- surely evidences of domesticity. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route] Reference
The tower also has the humdrum domesticity of any American office shared by itinerant workmates. From Wordnik.com. [High above Potomac, a peek into the inner workings of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge] Reference
"It is a gift, this domesticity," said Count Victor, not without an inward twinge at the picture. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
Like a city becomes a backdrop to daily living, the clocks too faded into a texture of domesticity. From Wordnik.com. [The Clock Man's Trouble] Reference
I'm not saying that I want to hang up my backpack forever, but domesticity never looked so exciting. From Wordnik.com. [Domesticity Never Looked So Exciting] Reference
If you listen closely, domesticity is intimately bound up in Fever Ray's notionally forbidding music. From Wordnik.com. [Fever Ray; Zola Jesus] Reference
My girlfriends and I talked about our mothers and grandmothers, models of domesticity, and pitied them. From Wordnik.com. [Stop The Clock] Reference
See puts the dark side of domesticity front and center, but her tone of dry bemusement is heir to theirs. From Wordnik.com. [One Big Unhappy Family] Reference
It was characteristic of Dutch, not of Italian, painters to celebrate serene domesticity in pictures of kitchens. From Wordnik.com. [Italy's 59Th Post-War Try] Reference
A man may, moreover, come to desire offspring for the pleasures and responsibilities of domesticity and parenthood. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Getting out of the house, a break from domesticity, was a plus, as was having a “real” (read “paying”) job. From Wordnik.com. [Garden Goddess for Hire] Reference
Without knowing the story, a viewer would assume that it depicts, with delicate humor, domesticity and soft feelings. From Wordnik.com. [Unfinished Perfection] Reference
She sat by the lamp stitching, and the inevitable suggestion of comfortable domesticity was in itself an inspiration. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
With some advice from his ex-mother-in-law and a friendly female neighbor, Tangherlini is less daunted by domesticity. From Wordnik.com. [It's Not Like Mr. Mom] Reference
One is inclined to wonder if there was ever any retirement, any domesticity in this life so full of movement and variety. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Sinclair were seated side by side on their front porch, presenting an agreeable picture of domesticity. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Not even the Baron had a word to say on that, and they were numberless the topics they discussed in this enforced sweet domesticity. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
Communication of our sort stank of reason; gilded over and bland in its practicality — coarseness covering an injured domesticity. From Wordnik.com. [Beached] Reference
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