Trad Moms and Trad Wives

We dive into the world of #tradwives and trad moms—mothers who embrace their traditional gender roles and showcase homemaking all over social media, usually with a heavy dose of curated perfection, aspiring to a bygone ideal that may never exactly have actually existed.

Amy and Margaret discuss:

• what actually defines a trad wife
• the influence of social media algorithms in boosting—and polarizing—this content
• the aesthetic fantasy of cottagecore, nap dresses, and homesteading versus the messy reality of modern motherhood

Here are links to some of the resources mentioned in the episode:

• Sophie Elmhirst for The New Yorker: ⁠The Rise and Fall of the Trad Wife⁠
• Maddie Garfinkle for People Magazine: ⁠What Is a Tradwife? All About the Controversial Lifestyle — And Why It's Having a Viral Moment⁠
• Amy X. Wang for The New York Times: ⁠Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Tradwife?

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