About this episode

The episode discusses the strong reactions to the 'tradwife' phenomenon through a conversation about a bestselling novel.

In this bonus episode, I spoke with Helen Roy about Caro Claire Burke’s bestselling novel ‘Yesteryear’ and we tried to explain why the ‘tradwife’ phenomenon attracts such strength of feeling. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Louise Perry

Guest: Helen Roy

Topics covered

• tradwives
• feminism
• society
• relationships
• literature

Keywords

• tradwife
• Yesteryear
• Caro Claire Burke
• Helen Roy
• feminism
• society
• relationships

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Yesteryear

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