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Male Supremacy is at the Core of the Hard Right's Agenda

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“Women’s interest in the tradwife movement [politicalresearch.org] is, in some ways, a response to modern economic realities. The movement is ‘rooted in many young women’s sense of discontent with mainstream society and capitalist systems that – in the U.S., in any case – make balancing motherhood and work a near-impossible task, with virtually no childcare support, limited sick leave, and few protections for women who need time away from work for childcare or eldercare responsibilities,’ Cynthia Miller-Idriss, a scholar of extremism and radicalization, has noted. Some women have responded by looking backward to a romanticized version of domesticity captured by the 1950s propaganda that forms the backbone of the tradwife aesthetic.”

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