Are you alarmed by the recent TradWife takeover of every corner of social media? If so you might like to read my book ‘The Return of the Housewife’ which currently has a lovely 50% discount @manchesterup.bsky.social
Dr Emma Casey
@emmahcasey.bsky.social
Reader 📚 University of York. Home cultures and domestic economies.‘The Return of the Housewife: why women are still cleaning up’ out now! https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526170972/
Briefly here to post that the ‘Women Strike Back’ exhibition has just launched in Bristol. It explores the activism of Black and South Asian women. Free and open to the public. Pls do share the news. www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...
New exhibition to explore histories of Black and South Asian feminist pioneers
"Women Strike Back!"
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Like the beauty requisite, domestic perfection is ruthlessly promoted on social media creating an ideal scenario for unfettered capitalist production & gendered inequalities of domestic labour. 30% discount on my book for Women’s History Month @manchesterup.bsky.social @uoy-sociology.bsky.social
Very much looking forward to being in conversation with Seeta Peña Gangadharan about ideas of refusal and resistance. "Time for Refusal? The politics of resistance against AI". All welcome! - Thursday 27th Feb at Goldsmiths, room RHB 2014, www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/, www.gold.ac.uk/campus-map/r...
It’s the Epstein files deja vu: how many more powerful men knew about his crimes, and helped him out anyway? | Marina Hyde
It’s the Epstein files deja vu: how many more powerful men knew about his crimes, and helped him out anyway? | Marina Hyde
I’m sorry, but this is not just a political scandal. Time to refocus on the horrific mistreatment of women and girls, and the role of these ghouls, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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“I love the Brontës, & if I had my way fewer people would read their books. Nothing ruins something for me quicker than other people liking it too.” As an unhappy teen I read Wuthering Heights, then Jane Eyre. Part of my joy was rebelling against the 1990s cultural obsession with Jane Austen.
It's Giving Topshop Corset: 4 Thoughts on That Trailer for Emerald Fennel’s Wuthering Heights.
I would find it extremely titillating if it didn’t remind me of something teenage me would recreate in my bedroom after seeing the “Justify My Love” video too many times.
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“The Return of the Housewife takes a clever, well-researched approach to understanding the persistent, gendered inequalities of housework… This book should be on every feminist scholar’s reading list!” Thank you @choicereviews.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social
The Return of the Housewife - Choice 360
This holiday season we're spotlighting a review that digs into the inequalities of housework within the context of today's social media "cleanfluencers."
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“In court, month after month, I have come to think that children have as little agency as they did in the 19th century, when in England they were legally the possessions of their fathers with no rights of their own.”
I was warned my children would be ripped in half when we divorced. But I had no idea just how brutal custody cases can be
My experience of court was eye-opening. And when I sat in on other cases, I realised how often mothers are vilified
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I’m thrilled to see this 🤩 Thank you to all of the wonderful booksellers, fellow authors, friends, colleagues and family who have championed The Housewife this year. And of course to the wonderful @manchesterup.bsky.social & @uoy-sociology.bsky.social I feel very lucky!
Manchester University Press@manchesterup.bsky.social · 8mo agoBest of 2025!🏆 We're thrilled to announce the four MUP books selected by @choicereviews.bsky.social as Outstanding Academic Titles for 2025: The return of the housewife (@emmahcasey.bsky.social) Global Marxism Youth and sustainable peacebuilding (@hmberents.bsky.social) Readers and mistresses 🚀
Best of 2025!🏆 We're thrilled to announce the four MUP books selected by @choicereviews.bsky.social as Outstanding Academic Titles for 2025: The return of the housewife (@emmahcasey.bsky.social) Global Marxism Youth and sustainable peacebuilding (@hmberents.bsky.social) Readers and mistresses 🚀
It is fifty years since Silvia Federici wrote her seminal essay ‘Wages Against Housework’. Today women continue to do most unpaid labour and are promised that housework is good for the soul- a route to health and happiness. This is a regressive myth. In The Return of the Housewife I explain why.
👩💻 What draws women into #FarRight & #Tradwife circles? 📚 Join Lois Shearing & @emmahcasey.bsky.social for an eye-opening discussion on #Radicalisation & gender. 🗓️ Mon 10 Nov, 6:30–8pm 🎙️ Chair: @racheloneill.bsky.social 👉 Register: forms.office.com/e/twwa0D0VaR #PinkPilled #ReturnOfTheHousewife
📚 The Divine Feminine: Women & the Rise of the Right Join authors Lois Shearing & @emmahcasey.bsky.social for a vital talk on women’s roles in #farright movements, radicalisation & tradwife culture. 🗓 Mon 10 Nov 6.30-8pm 🎙 Chair: Dr Rachel O'Neill ✅ Register: forms.office.com/e/twwa0D0VaR
I’m really looking forward to speaking at this event at LSE alongside Lois Shearing and chaired by Rachel O’Neill. All welcome! Link to register is below. @lsemedia.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Precinct 1 (Shopping City, Salford), by Mandy Payne, Sheffield-based artist. Spray paint and oil paint on marble. #WomensArt #NorthernArt
‘The womanosphere trades in individualistic strategies for rebelling against the perceived liberal status quo, reinforcing age-old gender hierarchies.’ Great article by @foxpack.bsky.social My book also explores how the current romanticising of women’s unpaid labour has sinister undertones.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 11mo agoFrom Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why fascist strongmen rely on women at home
Sage have very kindly made this interview free to read until the end of October. Link is below ⬇️
Dr Emma Casey@emmahcasey.bsky.social · 12mo agoAnn Oakley & I discuss writing at the kitchen table, the Women’s Liberation Movement & eternal reinvention of housewifery as occupation. “I wonder how much women would have been able to accomplish if they hadn’t had to organise their lives around important men” 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Hey #sociologists - a very informative interview with Ann Oakley about housework, wives, research methods and her influential career. Skilfully carried out by @emmahcasey.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Unappreciated Labour: Emma Casey and Ann Oakley in Conversation April 2025 - Emma Casey, Ann Oakley, 2025
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Easington, County Durham, 1984, photo by Izabela Jedrzejczyk. From her series Striking Women, about women there who were supporting miners during the strike (@sidegallery.bsky.social).
Ann Oakley & I discuss writing at the kitchen table, the Women’s Liberation Movement & eternal reinvention of housewifery as occupation. “I wonder how much women would have been able to accomplish if they hadn’t had to organise their lives around important men” 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
‘Entirely man-made famine in Gaza’ is confirmed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...
Famine confirmed in Gaza City for first time, UN-backed report says - live updates
The IPC says
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Ann Oakley & I discuss writing at the kitchen table, the Women’s Liberation Movement & eternal reinvention of housewifery as occupation. “I wonder how much women would have been able to accomplish if they hadn’t had to organise their lives around important men” 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
“No matter how hard you work or how capable you are, you can't do it all yourself”- Thatcher’s advice to women in 1990. Employing domestic servants dwindled after WW2 but domestic ‘help’ remained. Listen to me discussing housewives alongside @lucydelap.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social
Servants
“No matter how hard you work or how capable you are, you can't do it all yourself. You have to seek reliable help.” Those were Margaret Thatcher’s words in...
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The Summer Sale is on ☀️ Get 50% off EVERYTHING until the 7th July. Yes, every book on our website! Unlock with code SUN50 at checkout. Had your eye on any of our latest hardbacks, or new in paperbacks? Now's your chance 👇 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk #booksky
It is fifty years since Silvia Federici wrote her seminal essay ‘Wages Against Housework’. Today women continue to do most unpaid labour and are promised that housework is good for the soul- a route to health and happiness. This is a regressive myth. In The Return of the Housewife I explain why.
“Here we see Ann Oakley at her best – bringing to the surface the hitherto overlooked experiences of women and their vital contribution to the home and domestic life.“ My review of Ann Oakley’s ‘The Science of Housework’ for @sociologyjnl.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
