Trad wives and Trump: the rise of the right wing ‘womanosphere’

Analyses of the 2024 US election widely heralded the ‘manosphere’ – the coalition of bro podcasters and YouTubers popular with male audiences – as key to delivering Donald Trump’s victory. There are now organised efforts to create a similar alternative rightwing media ecosystem targeting young female audiences. New York-based writer Anna Silman talks to Nour Haydar about the ‘womanosphere’, the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican

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