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...

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/...

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

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

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!

I’m so especially happy to see my book on the shelves at @foylesforbooks.bsky.social My late dad’s favourite bookshop 💕📚

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.’

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

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

On 9 April I’ll be talking about my new book ‘The Return of the Housewife’ in Edinburgh at the Lighthouse bookshop. Booking link is below! @lighthousebks.bsky.social lighthousebookshop.com/events/the-r...

As an ex Waterstones bookseller I am especially excited to say that you can pre-order my book until tomorrow from Waterstones for 25% discount. @manchesterup.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social

Ohh Marianne Faithfull. She was so beautiful and stylish and talented. The lyrics to the Ballad of Lucy Jordan are on the opening page of my first book 🖤

A lovely morning presenting at #YorkTalks alongside some wonderful colleagues. My book cover received a round of applause *and* I got to hold a facsimile from the 1700s of a 5th century text. @york.ac.uk www.york.ac.uk/research/eve...

There’s a storm coming.

1986- the sparkling new Metro Centre Gateshead is built on the site of a disused power station. In this article I discuss the role of the Thatcher government in simultaneously dismantling the local industrial landscapes & cementing new ideals of consumer selfhood journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Last week I bought a secondhand book and inside I found this beautiful hand painted bookmark. It made my day! The other book that I have on the go is doubling up as a place to press autumn leaves.