The Sourdough and the Trojan Horse: Trad Wife Content and the Politics of Submission

By Anna Papalexiou
In Caro Claire Burke’s debut novel Yesteryear, published earlier this year, a trad wife influencer – a term short for ‘traditional wife’, used to describe a growing online movement promoting the return to domestic and submissive roles – named Natalie Heller Mills wakes up one morning in 1855.