The Rise of the Tradwife / Sarah Bouillete & Astrid Lorange

The family has been made and remade time again to be the load bearing institution of capital accumulation: this persistent push to push debt and responsibility and care downwards into the privatized family unit, withdrawing from the social store and ensuring that states don't become, in their mind, overburdened with welfare. The family as the private unit that should be able to shoulder all of this responsibility in the reproduction…I think that what we see with the tradwife is an expression of this family in crisis that is informed by COVID and post-Trump conservative politics, global politics, and interlocking crises. It's also an expression of a particular kind of reactionary anti-feminism and how that matches up with popular movements like incels, the anti trans panic, and the gender and sex panic that we are very much living in now.