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…when a man’s word was law to his wife, where domestic violence was a private matter, where the products of a woman’s labor (yes, women worked) belonged to her husband. When, as our feminist foremothers like Elizabeth Cady Stanton accurately noted, women had fewer rights than children, imbeciles, and convicted prisoners.

By comparison, “housewife” implies a more benign state of being, for all its manifest flaws. In the ordinary course of life women expected to have a say in the marriage and the raising of the kids. Contraceptives certainly existed.

Men who use the term “tradwife” always sound like wifebeaters to me. Or incels who want to be wifebeaters. There’s something about the term and the “men” who use it that just raises my hackles and sets off alarm bells. They want slavery, not housewifery.