Even though he wasn’t a woman, Bal Gandharva’s vision of the ‘traditional wife’ was given supremacy over every other form of womanhood.
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Today’s tradwives rework the ideals of the early 20th-century German housewives’ movement.
This cultural trend is a politically meaningful symptom of broader structural inequalities.
Global economic and political uncertainty, nostalgia and the ongoing shaming of assertive women is fuelling a rise of the ‘tradwife’ movement.
The model and mother of three makes meals entirely from scratch on TikTok – with some labelling her content as ‘rage bait’.
While tradwives emerge across the political spectrum, a small subculture use their platforms to promote the dark ideas of the far-right – including in Australia.
Women have assumed different roles in alt-right movements, including organizing protests, spreading misinformation and organizing militias.
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