Wifework: the job description -- Of marriage, metamorphosis and rotten eggs -- Meet the wife: the origins of wifework -- The monogamy trade-off -- Why do we do it to ourselves? -- Rising expectations and diminishing returns -- Mars and venus scrub the toilet -- Believing in pyjamas -- And baby makes two and a half: the myth of shared parenting -- Equality go bye-byes: parenthood and partnership -- The wifely art of emotional caregiving -- Giving, receiving ... getting depressed -- Not tonight, darling: wifework and sex work -- Excuses, excuses: why wifework persists -- Sleeping with the enemy -- Surrendered judgments -- Whose wife is it, anyway?
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