In the final episode of Witches to Trad Wives, we bring this series to its present-day conclusion.
Across these episodes, we’ve traced how fear of women repeatedly organizes itself into moral panic—each time wearing a new, era-appropriate costume. What begins as witchcraft becomes medical diagnosis, criminal spectacle, political threat, and wartime anxiety. Today, that same fear reappears as something softer and more palatable: the tradwife.
In this episode, we examine how tradwife culture functions not as a neutral lifestyle trend, but as the latest iteration of an old containment strategy—one that reframes submission as empowerment, domesticity as freedom, and hierarchy as harmony. Drawing connections between Cold War conservatism, anti-feminist organizing, reproductive panic, and social-media aesthetics, we name the pattern beneath the panic.
This episode closes the Witches to Trad Wives arc by asking why women’s gains are so often followed by systems designed to quietly take power back.
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