Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "\"Barefoot and pregnant\" is a figure of speech most commonly associated with the idea that women should not work outside the home and should have many children during their reproductive years. It has several other meanings as well.The phrase \"barefoot and pregnant\" seems to have been introduced in the early twentieth century by Arthur E. Hertzler, the Horse-and-Buggy Doctor' from Kansas: “'The only way to keep a woman happy,' he said, 'is to keep her barefoot and pregnant.'” By mid-century, the phrase had passed into common parlance, so that an article from 1949 states, \"By early 1949, TWA was—in the words of its new president, Ralph S. Damon—both 'barefoot and pregnant.'\"The variation \"barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen\" has been associated with the phrase \"Kinder, Küche, Kirche\" (translated \"children, kitchen, church\"), used under the German Empire to describe a woman's role in society. A comparable phrase, \"Good Wife, Wise Mother\", emerged in the 1870s in Meiji Japan, and was used as a means of restricting female access to the public realm there, before spreading more widely in East Asian culture."@en }
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- Barefoot_and_pregnant abstract "\"Barefoot and pregnant\" is a figure of speech most commonly associated with the idea that women should not work outside the home and should have many children during their reproductive years. It has several other meanings as well.The phrase \"barefoot and pregnant\" seems to have been introduced in the early twentieth century by Arthur E. Hertzler, the Horse-and-Buggy Doctor' from Kansas: “'The only way to keep a woman happy,' he said, 'is to keep her barefoot and pregnant.'” By mid-century, the phrase had passed into common parlance, so that an article from 1949 states, \"By early 1949, TWA was—in the words of its new president, Ralph S. Damon—both 'barefoot and pregnant.'\"The variation \"barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen\" has been associated with the phrase \"Kinder, Küche, Kirche\" (translated \"children, kitchen, church\"), used under the German Empire to describe a woman's role in society. A comparable phrase, \"Good Wife, Wise Mother\", emerged in the 1870s in Meiji Japan, and was used as a means of restricting female access to the public realm there, before spreading more widely in East Asian culture.".