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/
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Dr Emma Casey
@emmahcasey.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Manchester University Press - The return of the housewife
The return of the housewife - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of The return of the housewife by Emma Casey
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My book The Return of the Housewife is now available to pre-order, has an appropriately angry front cover and some lovely early endorsements @manchesterup.bsky.social
“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.
open.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:25 PM
“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.
“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."
www.choice360.org
January 21, 2026 at 10:47 AM
“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
“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
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 1:22 PM
“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’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!
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
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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
🚀
December 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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!
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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
🚀
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
🚀
December 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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
🚀
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
🚀
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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.
July 2, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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.
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👩💻 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
📚 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
November 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
👩💻 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
📚 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
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📚 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
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
October 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
📚 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
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
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Call for book proposals!
Are you passionate about punk? 🤘
Do you have an idea for a book? 📖
Send us your idea for a fresh take on punk to mark the 50th anniversary, that could be the next instalment our acclaimed British Pop Archive series. 🎶
More details below 👇 #booksky #punk
Are you passionate about punk? 🤘
Do you have an idea for a book? 📖
Send us your idea for a fresh take on punk to mark the 50th anniversary, that could be the next instalment our acclaimed British Pop Archive series. 🎶
More details below 👇 #booksky #punk
September 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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...
October 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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...
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Precinct 1 (Shopping City, Salford), by Mandy Payne, Sheffield-based artist. Spray paint and oil paint on marble. #WomensArt #NorthernArt
October 1, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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.
From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why fascist strongmen rely on women at home
From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why fascist strongmen rely on women at home
Fascist regimes pushed narratives of domestic bliss, yet relied on women’s unpaid labor. In the US today, ‘womanosphere’ influencers promote the same fantasies
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
‘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.
Sage have very kindly made this interview free to read until the end of October. Link is below ⬇️
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/...
September 19, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Sage have very kindly made this interview free to read until the end of October. Link is below ⬇️
Reposted by Dr Emma Casey
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/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Unappreciated Labour: Emma Casey and Ann Oakley in Conversation April 2025 - Emma Casey, Ann Oakley, 2025
journals.sagepub.com
September 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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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).
August 30, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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).
Reposted by Dr Emma Casey
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/...
August 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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
www.bbc.co.uk
August 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
‘Entirely man-made famine in Gaza’ is confirmed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...
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/...
August 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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...
morejamtomorrow.com
July 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
“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
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Get 50% off EVERYTHING until the 7th July. Yes, every book on our website!
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Had your eye on any of our latest hardbacks, or new in paperbacks? Now's your chance 👇
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June 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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 👇
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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 👇
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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.
July 2, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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....
July 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
“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....
Looking for some summer reading? All MUP books including The Return of the Housewife are available with a 50% discount until 7 July here: linktr.ee/ManchesterUn... @manchesterup.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Looking for some summer reading? All MUP books including The Return of the Housewife are available with a 50% discount until 7 July here: linktr.ee/ManchesterUn... @manchesterup.bsky.social
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The Summer Sale starts now ☀️
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June 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The Summer Sale starts now ☀️
Get 50% off EVERYTHING until the 7th July. Yep, we said everything.
Unlock with code: Sun50
Had your eye on any of our newest hardbacks, or Academic New in Paperbacks? Now's your chance 👇
Browse by subject at the link in bio 🔗
#booksky #academicsky
Get 50% off EVERYTHING until the 7th July. Yep, we said everything.
Unlock with code: Sun50
Had your eye on any of our newest hardbacks, or Academic New in Paperbacks? Now's your chance 👇
Browse by subject at the link in bio 🔗
#booksky #academicsky
Thank you for hosting my book signing @foxlanebooks.bsky.social It was such a pleasure to meet you all! I was overwhelmed by all the interesting & thoughtful people who came along to @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Thank you for hosting my book signing @foxlanebooks.bsky.social It was such a pleasure to meet you all! I was overwhelmed by all the interesting & thoughtful people who came along to @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social