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DESCRIPTION:Talk by Professor Kaitlynn Mendes of Western University on Trad
 wife representations on TikTok. In recent years\, there has been an explos
 ion of interest in “tradwives\,” or “traditional wives.” Tradwives’ popula
 rity has been most observed on TikTok\, a platform that facilitates identi
 ty-laden performances. Far from a harmless TikTok trend\, pundits have dec
 ried tradwives as mainstreaming far-right and neo-fascist political ideolo
 gies that would limit women’s participation in the public sphere. However\
 , little empirical research has sought to tease out what exactly is underl
 ying the tradwife phenomenon. In our work\, we explored 262 TikTok videos 
 using #tradwife. We find that tradwives elide any singular conceptualizati
 on. Tradwives contain a varied set of aesthetics and narratives\, from “ho
 mestead wives” who embrace an “off-the-grid” lifestyle of self-sufficiency
 \, to “alt-wives\,” who sport non-traditional body modifications\, like ta
 ttoos and piercings\, but reject the promises of modern feminism. This wor
 k signals that we ought to think of tradwives as a diverse group with hete
 rogeneous methods and reasons for contesting contemporary gender roles.\n
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LOCATION:Room 116\, Peterson Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0E6\, 3460 rue
  McTavish
SUMMARY:Hashtags and Homemaking: Exploring Tradwife Identities on TikTok
URL:/sociology/channels/event/hashtags-and-homemaking-
 exploring-tradwife-identities-tiktok-367861
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