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The model of the tradwife has its origins in fundamentalist Christianity, which privileges the nuclear family (and its concomitant monogamy and child-rearing) above all other social forms…. Over time, the tradwife has come to symbolize a kind of lifestyle—slow, soft, simultaneously caring and beloved—that belies a deep conservatism, one that happens to neatly align with America’s religious roots. The tradwife suggests—isn’t feminism a little, I don’t know, exhausting? Wouldn’t you like to be cared for? Wouldn’t you like to be kept?