Dr Emma Casey

Hooray! Thanks Dave!

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

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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.

👩‍💻 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
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#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

Oh how fab! I will listen to that. Also ‘Sisyphus in a sundress’ - love it!

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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...

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.

Sage have very kindly made this interview free to read until the end of October. Link is below ⬇️

Thank you Ros! X

Unappreciated Labour: Emma Casey and Ann Oakley in Conversation April 2025 - Emma Casey, Ann Oakley, 2025

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
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Gosh that resonates 🤣

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/...

Famine confirmed in Gaza City for first time, UN-backed report says - live updates The IPC says

‘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/...

Great news! Congratulations Lucy!

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...

“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

Thank you! X

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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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This *all* looks great; Todmorden, the indie bookshops, the folk music and of course this wonderfully intriguing new book! Congratulations 📚