Two women at the well: The “good wife” in patriarchal society by Leonardo Paganelli

“…Yet Rebecca seems to be the pattern of the ‘good wife’ and the Samaritan girl – on the contrary – the pattern of the ‘bad wife’, according to patriarchal morals. …”
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The good wife? Sibling species in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian by Stobie, CE

The Good Wife: Struggles over Land and Labour in the Kenyan Horticultural Sector by Dolan, C

La mirada de Alicia Florrick: Sobre The Good Wife y la necesaria feminización de la abogacía by Juan Jesús Garza-Onofre

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Céline MORIN (2017), Les héroïnes de séries américaines de Ma sorcière bien-aimée à The Good Wife by Hélène Monnet-Cantagrel

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Falsas memórias by Alana Sonego Tartarotti, Fábio Agne Fayet, Isadora Bays, Isadora Costi Fadanelli

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The Nationalist Critique of Female Double Suicide in Colonial Korea by Leighanne Yuh, Claudia Soddu

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Uxorius: The Praise and Blame of Husbands by Alison Sharrock

“…I begin by warning the reader of the trap which awaits both ancient texts and modern commentators, which is that discussions of what makes a good husband very quickly slip into discussions of what makes a good wife, as if it were more the duty of a woman to be a good wife than it is of a man to be a good husband. …”
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An Analysis of Contemporary Sources to Uncover the Medieval Identity of the Drink Bochet by Susan Verberg

“…When Le Ménagier de Paris (1393), a medieval household manual detailing a woman's proper behavior in marriage and running a household, was newly translated and republished as The Good Wife’s Guide: a Medieval Household Book by the Cornell University Press in 2009, its collection of recipes – including one for bochet – became easily available to the general public. …”
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"Coniugalia praecepta" Plutarcha o życiu żon by Dominika Budzanowska-Weglenda

“… The good wife, as Plutrach taught, ought to have no feeling of her own, but she should join with her husband in seriousness and sportiveness, in soberness and laughter. …”
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La modalité appréciative : vers une sémantique de good by Viviane Arigne

“…This article analyses the lexical semantics of the adjective good in indefinite singular NPs such as a good wife, a good burglar or good bread. The adjective good is central to the semantic concept of evaluative modality defined in the framework of the opposition good vs. bad, which is consensually considered to be a positive vs. negative opposition within which good is seen as the positive term. …”
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Tribunali e giustizia nelle narrazioni seriali del prime-time statunitense by Marta Rocchi, Allegra Sonego

“…In this paper, we analysed the narrative structure of four US prime-time television series (Boston Legal, Abc 2004-2008; The Good Wife, Cbs 2009-2016; Suits, Usa Network 2011-2019; For the People, Abc 2018-2019) to understand how distinctive traits of the genre were articulated: courts, legal cases and professional dynamics. …”
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Le catéchisme et la machine à coudre. Cartes postales missionnaires et travail féminin en Afrique de l’Ouest (1920-1940) by Julien Bondaz

“…The nuns thus contributed to the diffusion of a conception of femininity articulating the figure of the good Christian, the good wife and the good mother, and of the social gender relations. …”
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Marriage Ties in England in First Half of 17th Century: Sermons to Newlyweds by Thomas Gateaker by K. A. Sozinova

“…The study is based on sermons to newlyweds published in the 1620s by the famous moderate Puritan Thomas Gataker: “A Summary of Marital Responsibilities” (1620), “A Good Wife is a Gift of God” (1620/23), and “A Perfect Wife” (1623). …”
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The Image of Women in Early Republican Era Womens Magazines: The Example of Ev Kadın Magazine / Erken Cumhuriyet Dönemi Kadın Dergilerinde Kadın İmajı: Ev Kadın Dergisi Örneği... by Esra Işık

“…In this article, we examined how the image of a woman who was redefined as a good wife and a good mother with the Republic was reflected in the Ev Kadın magazine, one of the women’s magazines of the period. …”
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Performing the ‘Maternal’ Body: by Ojaswini Hooda

“…A reading  of women’s cultural forms reveals these to be discourses that carry a very different understanding of “maternal” body and sexuality, disrupting the prevailing dominant polarised conceptualisations of the female body wherein the maternal body is often desexualised, assuming an incongruity between active sexuality and motherhood in a good wife. My contention is that such resignifications and alternative self-figurations of the maternal body by women serve to challenge dominant ontological claims, thereby revealing ontology to be a contested field as well as enhancing the field of possibilities for (re)imagining the “maternal” body.…”
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Image of a Woman in Chineese and Russian Paroemiae by Natalia V. Novospasskaya, Xue Yang, Arina Yu. Mikhaylenko

“…The result of the study was the recording of eleven coinciding meanings of paroemiae about a woman: daughter as a beloved female child; daughter as an extra mouth in the family; daughter as a potential member of another family; daughter as a family member opposed to daughter-in-law; qualitative description of a bad wife; qualitative description of a good wife; wife-partner; tradition of wife beating; mother as the basis for the life and upbringing of a child; mother as a bearer of love; opposition of mother and stepmother. …”
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Meanings of Sexuality: Views from Malay Women with Sexual Dysfunction by Muhamad, Rosediani, Horey, Dell, Liamputtong, Pranee, Low, Wah Yun, Sidi, Hatta

“…Malay women understood sexuality to be sexual intimacy within marriage, privileging their marital role as a “good wife” over their personal rights within a sexual relationship. …”

A qualitative study on wife abuse in Muslim families: why women endure? / Mariny Abdul Ghani, Noor Azizah Ahmad and Azizul Mohamad by Abdul Ghani, Mariny, Ahmad, Noor Azizah, Mohamad, Azizul

“…The findings indicate that the women perceived of wife abuse as strengthening their faith in destiny, however their understanding on Islamic concepts about being ‘a good wife’ is in vital need of rectification.…”
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The social construction of domestic space in the Brezhnev era by Smolyak, O

“…This state patronage, however, was juxtaposed with propaganda promoting pro-natalist policies and articulating the increasing social demand for a ‘good wife,’ who would prioritise her family over socially active roles. …”