Behind every trad wife, there's a horror story.
Go to https://surfshark.com/elleliteracy or use code ELLELITERACY at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! Behind every video of pastoral bliss, kneading sourdough in a sun-drenched kitchen with a horde of blond-haired blue-eyed children, is a horror story. In the past 10 months there have been 5 books about trad wives; all of them are horror and thrillers. Why does the trad wife keep popping up in genres designed to explore cultural anxieties? What anxieties does she signify? In this essay I look at Ballerina Farm, the horror genre, and books like Trad Wife by Saratoga Schaefer and Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. BOOKS Doppelgänger, Naomi Klein Caliban and the Witch, Silvia Federici Right Wing Women, Andrea Dworkin Trad Wife, Saratoga Schaefer Yesteryear, Cato Claire Burke The Trad Wife, Carrie Hughes Everyone is Lying to You, Jo Piazza Nice White Ladies, Jessie Daniels White Feminism, Koa Beck LINKS patreon: / elleliteracy tiktok: https://tiktok.com/elleliteracy instagram: / elle.literacy letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/elleliteracy substack: substack.com/@elleliteracy email (sponsorships): [email protected] email (general contact): [email protected] faq what's your accent? i lived in america til i was 7 and ireland since then so my accent is a mix between the two! camera: canon m50 mark ii editing: adobe premiere pro microphone: shure sm7b music: Epidemic Sound
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