The Subtext: Yesteryear and the Trad Wife Movement with Beth Allison Barr

We have a substitute teacher on today's episode! Lee is out of town, so Savannah called upon All the Buried Women co-host Beth Allison Barr to step in. The trad wife dream might look beautiful on camera, but what if you actually have to live it?

What happens when a woman who sells the fantasy of "traditional" womanhood wakes up and has to actually live it? Using Yesteryear as a jumping-off point, Savannah sits down with historian and author Beth Allison Barr to dissect the trad wife movement, what it promises, what it erases, and what women actually lost before they had the legal right to say no.

Things we mentioned in this episode:

All the Buried Women podcast

For All Mankind on Apple TV

A Rome of One's Own by Emma Southon

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

The Five by Hallie Rubenhold

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