Sunday, April 5, 2026

How fitting! According to Merriam-Webster, the first known use of 'tradwife' occurred in 2016, the same year as 'MAGA'

 
'Tradwife', as in a married woman who embraces traditional gender roles (such as being a stay-at-home wife and mother).

Book cover and headline:  New York Times, 4/4/2026

Lizzy Goodman reports:
Ms. Burke’s animated, cheery outrage on a number of subjects, especially the tradwife phenomenon, quickly earned her followers. By early 2025, she had come up with an idea for a new novel, one that was very different from anything she had tried before: a psychological thriller about a “flawless Christian” tradwife influencer named Natalie Heller Mills who is raising six kids and running a multimillion-dollar online business with her pinup farmer husband, and who one day wakes up to discover she has been transported to the year 1855. It would, as Ms. Burke has said, push the ideas she had been debating on social media “all the way to their conclusion.” She even had the title: “Yesteryear.” 
 
249 holds on 18 copies in LINKcat, the South Central Library System online catalog, as of 5:36 p.m. on 4/5/2026.  Definitely a buzzworthy title.


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