Dictionary

tradwife en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈtɹæd.waɪf/

Etymology

From trad (“traditional”) + wife.

Meanings

1. (slang) A wife who fulfills a traditional gender role based on Western middle-class femininity of the mid-twentieth century.
   • Ms. Jorgenson is being interviewed on Radio 3Fourteen, a white supremacist talk radio program; it is interviewing her because she considers herself a tradwife. 2018 June 1, Annie Kelly, “The Housewives of White Supremacy”, in New York Times:
   • I hate her, hate groups, incel, tradwives, the fact that I don't usually hate anybody, ... 2019, Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport, page 214:
   • Blond and blue-eyed, just like the #tradwife ideal, but her eyes held a fierceness that overshadowed her fame. 2019, Dana Killion, Lies of Men:
   • Reactionary motifs are chic: Trump hats and “tradwife” frocks, monarchist and anti-feminist sentiments. Perhaps the ultimate expression of this contrarian aesthetic is its embrace of Catholicism. 2022 August 9, Julia Yost, “New York’s Hottest Club Is the Catholic Church”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • The tradwife movement is one of the most concerning trends to have emerged in the past few years, with more and more women looking to switch their careers and independence for tending to hearth and home - and every will of their husbands. 2019 October 22, “'I want to submit to my husband like a 50s housewife': inside the controversial UK tradwife movement”, in Stylist Magazine:
   • He notes that many “white supremacists call for 'tradwives'—traditional wives—to produce more white children” (ibid.), an association between misogyny and racism. 2019, William F. Pinar, What Is Curriculum Theory?:

Forms

Deriveds

tradwifery

Relateds

SAHM · tradcath · housewife · homemaker