Besides the jar of contrast there came to her a chill self-reproach that she had not returned sooner, to help her mother in these domesticities, instead of indulging herself out-of-doors.
1995, Barbara Fass Leavy, chapter 6, in In Search of the Swan Maiden[1], page 196:
A similarly hapless accident is the subject of a modern song in which one Polly Von wraps about herself the symbol of her domesticity, her apron, is mistaken for a swan, and is shot by her fiancé.
2005, Signe O. Wegener, James Fenimore Cooper versus the Cult of Domesticity[2], page 160:
Cooper initially stresses her "masculine" qualities, not her domesticity.
2008, Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, The Force of Domesticity[3], page 9:
I look at the force of domesticity, meaning the continued relegation of housework to women or the persistence of the ideology of women's domesticity, in the labor market, the family, and the migrant community, as well as in migration policies and laws.
2011, Clauda T. Kairoff, Anna Seward and the End of the Eighteenth Century[4]:
[…]her domesticity encompasses not only household management and care of an aging father but also leadership of the most prominent Lichfield salon.
1978 August 5, Harold Pickett, “Poetry Is Alive and Well in NYC”, in Gay Community News, page 15:
Shirley Powell appears happy and fulfilled these days. She's in love and enjoys domesticity. "I recommend it to everybody. If you live in a more secure kind of environment with someone that you care about and also have things that you can share, you can be very much strengthened by that."
the all-embracing concept of domesticity proves to be a creation not of the seventeenth century but of the nineteenth century. It was during this latter period that domestic, bourgeois family life became a nucleus around which the nation was formed.
2011, Patricia Highsmith, The Cry of the Owl[6], page 6:
He liked her domesticity, liked to see her take pleasure in putting up curtains and hanging pictures.
As we have seen, Browning renovates her life-after-divorce by framing her domesticity in increasingly autoerotic terms. With her sensuous boudoir, lust for furniture, love affair with houses, and espousal of baked goods, hers is an appetitive domesticity geared to self-pleasure.
