Dr Emma Casey
Reader 📚 University of York. Home cultures and domestic economies.‘The Return of the Housewife: why women are still cleaning up’ out now! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526170972/
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- Reposted by Dr Emma CaseyApply for our PhD placement scheme to get involved in extraordinary research at the Library. There are eight available placements exploring a variety of themes including war poetry, 21st-century digital tools, illustrated newspapers and decarbonisation. Find out more: link.bl.uk/PhDPlacements
- “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
- “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!
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- Reposted by Dr Emma Casey👩💻 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
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- 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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- ‘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/...
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- ‘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/...
- “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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- 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....
- 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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- 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
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- “Struggle is rebranded as resilience. Burnout becomes a badge of honour. Emotional labour becomes content.” Great article @livvygibbs.bsky.social @graceblakeley.substack.com My book The Return of the Housewife echoes this - especially the relentless digital glamorisation of women’s unpaid labour.
- Sure Start was a life-line for us. I wouldn’t have survived as a single mum scraping a living in London with no family nearby without their emotional & practical care. Woodside Children’s Centre in E17 gave us the best start; baby weighs, childcare, financial advice, friendship, community & fun.
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- Reposted by Dr Emma Casey'The world doesn't care if we die' - in case the genocide is passing you by, read this www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
- I’m very much looking forward to bringing The Return of the Housewife to the York Festival of Ideas next month! The discussion will be chaired by the fabulous Lois Shearing. I can’t wait! @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social
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- Sign up to join us in celebrating our 60th birthday on the 18th June! #sociology @britsoci.bsky.social
- “Linking housework, digital & platform society, self-help, & feminist theory, the book is a wide-ranging critical blueprint for a new domestic revolution”. I really enjoyed discussing digital housewifery with @drdaveobrien.bsky.social for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social
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- Today I recorded an interview with the wonderful Prof Ann Oakley at her office at UCL. Definitely a career highlight sort of day. Watch this space for a publication of our conversation about the science of housework and beyond!
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- I’m so especially happy to see my book on the shelves at @foylesforbooks.bsky.social My late dad’s favourite bookshop 💕📚
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- Today I’ve been reading Superwoman- a 1975 bestseller by Shirley Conran. It promises to provide tips & guidance to manage the domestic load alongside paid work. Ultimately the advice is to ignore women’s lib and crack on. ‘We are all too often tired, but try never to let the phrase cross your lips.’
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- I found a rainbow in my book this morning! Great novel by the way- about love, grief and the sea 🌊
- It’s arrived! A box of beautiful copies of The Return of the Housewife landed on my doorstep this morning. Thank you so much @manchesterup.bsky.social
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- I loathe the manosphere & the grip that social media has on our young people. The only solace I can find is to sporadically take my teenage boys away to Youth Hostels in the hills. We’ve also watched #Adolescence together which has at least opened up discussion about misogynist digital culture.
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- Reposted by Dr Emma CaseyFor #IWD2025, we spoke to Man-Yee Kan & Grace Chang about their research on gender inequality in time use 👩⌛️ The GenTime project tracks how men & women spend time ⏲️ The findings are clear - women still do far more unpaid work than men. Read more ⬇️ www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/gend...
- On International Women’s Day a reminder that women and in particular women of colour continue to do the vast majority of unpaid, low paid and invisible domestic labour. Women’s Liberation Movement tea towel produced by Spare Rib magazine in the 1970s. #IWD
- Women’s unpaid labour is currently being glamorised and repositioned as empowering ‘self-care’. My book is a call to resist the retreat back to highly conservative and debilitating representations of housework. RESIST! #housework #unpaidlabour #mentalload #invisiblelabour @manchesterup.bsky.social
- On Wednesday 14 May I’ll be at the wonderful women’s bookshop Collected in Durham talking about my book The Return of the Housewife. The event will be chaired by the brilliant Steph Lawler. Tickets below:
- I like Sam Fender and agree that no one should tell boys living in poverty that they are privileged. However, misogyny has always transcended class. We should focus on both- alleviating child poverty while simultaneously refusing the onslaught of misogynist ‘solutions’.
