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  "path": "/2026/06/05/yesteryear-tradwife-project-2025/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-05T18:36:48.000Z",
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    "Politics",
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    "Book Review",
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    "What if Women Really Went Back? Viral Thriller ‘Yesteryear’ Deconstructs the Dark Side of Tradwife Culture",
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  "textContent": "At first glance, Natalie Heller Mills has everything the tradwife internet promises: a beautiful home, a growing family and a devoted audience eager to consume her carefully curated vision of traditional womanhood. But in Caro Claire Burke's viral debut novel _Yesteryear_ , that fantasy begins to crack.\n\nAs Natalie is forced to confront the realities behind the lifestyle she promotes, Burke reveals just how much labor, sacrifice and self-deception are required to sustain the image.\n\nThrough Natalie’s unraveling, _Yesteryear_ becomes more than a gripping thriller. It is a sharp feminist critique of tradwife culture, exposing the gap between nostalgic online performances and the lived realities of women whose economic dependence, reproductive choices and personal autonomy are constrained by expectations of motherhood and submission.\n\nBurke ultimately asks a simple but unsettling question: If women truly returned to the past so many influencers romanticize, would they still want to stay there?\n\nThe post What if Women Really Went Back? Viral Thriller ‘Yesteryear’ Deconstructs the Dark Side of Tradwife Culture appeared first on Ms. Magazine.",
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