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2025-09-21 15:49:17 UTC

Real Syntactic on Nostr: Adrienne Matei’s Guardian article on why far right regimes need “tradwives” ...

Adrienne Matei’s Guardian article on why far right regimes need “tradwives” misses a key point. She quotes historian Claudia Koonz’s 1980 interview with Nazi lady’s-mag propagandist Gertrude Scholz-Klink: “Scholz-Klink made domestic and reproductive duty feel prestigious, rather than peremptory, helping ‘the Nazi party make ordinary women feel valued in a way that other women in more liberal parties didn’t, Koonz says.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/sep/21/fascism-women-homemaker-trad-wife 1/x longish thread. #gender #history #liberalism