Domesticity in a sentence

Acosta views the physical act of cutting of female images from the media as a sort of liberation—a symbolic freeing of women from the confining and antiquated realm of domesticity.

In stark monochrome, she captures the constantly shifting drama of domesticity in moments of intimacy and abandon, reverie and wild recklessness.

While peeks into a female reporter's homelife were grounding in and served to remind audiences of the immense emotional labor these women took on professionally and personally, similar scenes of domesticity in are achingly conventional.

Women used to tell Pratt that her scenes of domesticity made them cry, perhaps because she was painting their world—the trussed turkey, the unkempt bed—with the tender and careful eye of high art.

I am not 45, but I am already anticipating the barrage of thoughts on monogamy, domesticity, bodily autonomy, and despair that one might face at that age.

She is a woman who loves to cook one of the country’s most powerful politicians, a duality that shows the world that women are not bound to a place of domesticity orsuccess, they can move between both as they please.

Society painters started painting scenes inside the home, which was seen as the “woman’s sphere” of domesticity and feminine control.

That night I paid the skeptical cashier $19 for the spaceship-shaped device and took it home, feeling the first cracks of doubt emerging in my lifelong belligerence toward domesticity.

The film’s bleak portrayal of post-war domesticity centres on a housewife’s childless marriage to a man of frugal means, at a time when a patriarchal status quo was keen to continue women’s relegation to, and subordination within, the home.

Following the tragic death of his wife and soulmate Rebecca to breast cancer, documents Ferdinand’s raw grief as he navigates domesticity and caring for his three young children.

Into the 1900s, Thanksgiving’s importance as a time to celebrate domesticity and white, all-American nationalism would expand.

It set out to investigate what Friedan called “the problem that has no name” – the curse of domesticity.

The group included the artist’s good friend, Édouard Vuillard, and Vallotton himself, although he didn’t share their preference for images of cozy domesticity.

The administration came directly under the British crown, bringing with it the Victorian-era morality project, which placed a premium on women’s chastity and domesticity.

The lady makes the perfection of ordered domesticity every bit as alluring as any action adventure fantasy.

While "on going home" fragments and deconstructs ideas of domesticity, this wintry event celebrates how domestic traditions such as baking bring people together.

The trial of Ruth Ellis – the last woman to be hanged in England, after being found guilty of murdering her lover – took place in 1955, when women were being shooed back into domesticity after the war.

This novel is vintage Anne Tyler, strewn with the small wonky nuances in family life and the tiny strange details of domesticity, all of it contributing to a picture that will be familiar to anyone not brought up in a plastic bubble.

Mason (1995), 60. At bottom, says Mason, the character of Nancy Drew is that of a girl who is able to be "perfect" because she is "free, white, and sixteen" and whose "stories seem to satisfy two standards – adventure and domesticity.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. 79. Anna grew up within a milieu which cherished womanly virtue and domesticity above all else, and strongly emphasized thrift, charity and religious observances.