In this episode, Irina welcomes Temple University law professor Dara Purvis for a lively conversation about tradwives. Who are tradwives and to whom do they target their social media content? What do we know about their lives, and do they nostalgically portray a past that perhaps never existed? Dara explains why tradwife content isn't just superficial entertainment and represents part of a larger cultural and legal movement to erode women's rights and desire for equality. She also delves into how the attack on trans rights not only victimizes trans individuals but is rather also a move to enforce rigid gender stereotypes for everyone. Warning: this episode may make you laugh at times and rage at others!
Prof. Dara Purvis's faculty profile
SOTI ep. 89: Having It All with Dr. Corinne Low
NYT piece on how tradwife content is actually for men who want submissive wives
Mother Jones article about how tradwives are thriving in the post-Dobbs era
NPR essay asking what tradwife content says about feminism today
The Cut piece about how tradwives represent a fake past
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Melinda Wenner Moyer's book on how to raise kids who aren't assholes
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