rich 1.0 Hidden microwaves, false dreams, and the tradwife movement. In this week’s episode, Alice takes the girls on a journey into Caro Claire Burke’s psychological thriller Yesteryear (2024) alongside Betty Friedan’s seminal second-wave feminist text, The Feminine Mystique (1963) to see what each of them reveal about the not-so-glamorous reality behind the lifestyle tradwives perform online. Both Yesteryear and The Feminine Mystique reveal the complexities behind a simple life and how the suburban housewives (of the 1950s and today) were impacted by living a life constrained to the white picket fence. “The suburban housewife – she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife – freed by science and labour-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother. She was healthy, beautiful, educated, concerned only about her husband, her children, her home.” - Betty Friedan (The Feminine Mystique, 1963) Key Texts: Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (2026) The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (1963) Further Reading: Stepford Wives by Ira Levin (1972) Backlash: The undeclared war against American women by Susan Faludi (New York: Crown Publishers 1991) Out-of-Print https://audioboom.com/channels/5167871-out-of-print Audioboom https://audioboom.com 480 95 https://audioboom.com/i/43847164/600x600/c 600 600 <iframe width="100%" height="95" src="https://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/8955041/embed?v=202301" style="background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; width: 100%" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="allowtransparency" scrolling="no" title="Audioboom player" allow="autoplay" sandbox="allow-downloads allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation"></iframe>