Reposted by Dr Emma CaseyThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/09/2026TV tonight: the unmarried women who were forced to give up their babiestheguardian.comTV tonight: the unmarried women who were forced to give up their babiesAn enraging documentary hears from women sent away for becoming pregnant outside marriage. Plus: the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Here’s what to watch this evening 44216
Reposted by Dr Emma Caseywomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15/08/2026“We never talked about men or clothes. It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl's talk.” - Nina Simone, singer, musician and civil rights activist #WomensArt 81318271
Dr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Are you alarmed by the recent TradWife takeover of every corner of social media? If so you might like to read my book ‘The Return of the Housewife’ which currently has a lovely 50% discount @manchesterup.bsky.social 043
Reposted by Dr Emma CaseySadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Briefly here to post that the ‘Women Strike Back’ exhibition has just launched in Bristol. It explores the activism of Black and South Asian women. Free and open to the public. Pls do share the news. www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...bristol247.comNew exhibition to explore histories of Black and South Asian feminist pioneers"Women Strike Back!" 03424
Dr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Like the beauty requisite, domestic perfection is ruthlessly promoted on social media creating an ideal scenario for unfettered capitalist production & gendered inequalities of domestic labour. 30% discount on my book for Women’s History Month @manchesterup.bsky.social @uoy-sociology.bsky.social 012
Reposted by Dr Emma CaseyBrian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Bridges across the Tyne, photo by Sally Ann Norman. 721029
Reposted by Dr Emma CaseyDan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Very much looking forward to being in conversation with Seeta Peña Gangadharan about ideas of refusal and resistance. "Time for Refusal? The politics of resistance against AI". All welcome! - Thursday 27th Feb at Goldsmiths, room RHB 2014, www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/, www.gold.ac.uk/campus-map/r... 45419
Reposted by Dr Emma CaseyThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/02/2026It’s the Epstein files deja vu: how many more powerful men knew about his crimes, and helped him out anyway? | Marina Hydetheguardian.comIt’s the Epstein files deja vu: how many more powerful men knew about his crimes, and helped him out anyway? | Marina HydeI’m sorry, but this is not just a political scandal. Time to refocus on the horrific mistreatment of women and girls, and the role of these ghouls, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde 24299120
Reposted by Dr Emma CaseyBritish Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Apply 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 010180
Dr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social · 26/01/2026“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.open.substack.comIt'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. 010
Dr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social · 21/01/2026“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.socialchoice360.orgThe Return of the Housewife - Choice 360This holiday season we're spotlighting a review that digs into the inequalities of housework within the context of today's social media "cleanfluencers." 072
Dr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social · 18/01/2026“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.”theguardian.comI was warned my children would be ripped in half when we divorced. But I had no idea just how brutal custody cases can beMy experience of court was eye-opening. And when I sat in on other cases, I realised how often mothers are vilified 010
Dr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social · 05/12/2025I’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! 181
Reposted by Dr Emma CaseyManchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Best 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 🚀 182
Reposted by Dr Emma CaseyDr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social · 02/07/2025It 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. 0258
Reposted by Dr Emma CaseyLSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 04/11/2025👩💻 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 011
Reposted by Dr Emma CaseyLSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 09/10/2025📚 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 198
Dr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Oh how fab! I will listen to that. Also ‘Sisyphus in a sundress’ - love it! 010
Reposted by Dr Emma CaseyManchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Call 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 24532
Dr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social · 02/10/2025I’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... 065
Reposted by Dr Emma CaseyBrian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Precinct 1 (Shopping City, Salford), by Mandy Payne, Sheffield-based artist. Spray paint and oil paint on marble. #WomensArt #NorthernArt 04611
Dr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social · 21/09/2025‘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. 041
Dr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Sage have very kindly made this interview free to read until the end of October. Link is below ⬇️ 0133
Reposted by Dr Emma CaseyRos Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Hey #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.comUnappreciated Labour: Emma Casey and Ann Oakley in Conversation April 2025 - Emma Casey, Ann Oakley, 2025 1286
Reposted by Dr Emma CaseyBrian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Easington, 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). 0416
Reposted by Dr Emma CaseyDr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Ann 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/... 03112
Dr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social · 22/08/2025‘Entirely man-made famine in Gaza’ is confirmed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...bbc.co.ukFamine confirmed in Gaza City for first time, UN-backed report says - live updatesThe IPC says 010
Dr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Ann 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/... 03112
Dr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social · 04/07/2025“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.socialmorejamtomorrow.comServants“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... 152
Reposted by Dr Emma CaseyManchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 28/06/2025The 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 👇 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk #booksky 063
Dr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social · 02/07/2025It 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. 0258
Dr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social · 01/07/2025“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.... 030
Dr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Looking 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 133
Reposted by Dr Emma CaseyManchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 27/06/2025The 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 11719
Dr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social · 19/06/2025This *all* looks great; Todmorden, the indie bookshops, the folk music and of course this wonderfully intriguing new book! Congratulations 📚 110
Dr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Fascinating! I’d love to see more basket swings and hammock nets in parks- and more feminist research into girls’ experiences of public space like this. 120
Dr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Thank 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 052
Reposted by Dr Emma CaseyDr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Sign up to join us in celebrating our 60th birthday on the 18th June! #sociology @britsoci.bsky.social 162