Welcome to our club, welcome to our club! In the first installment of what we expect to be a recurring segment called Girls' Club (or Girls' Lunch Book Club, or Girls' Book Club, or some other to-be-determined combination of these words), Nicole and Julia review the book Yesteryear, by Caro Claire Burke. Nicole also provides some history and context about the phenomenon of tradwives, which feature heavily in the book and sneakily in the background of many of our episodes.

Timestamps for content warning: Discussion of a sexual assualt scene in the book (26:38 - 28:21) and brief mention of sexual assault (47:37 - 47:54)

Our theme song is "Red Onions" by Louie Zong, off of his album Vegetable Soul: https://louiezong.bandcamp.com/album/vegetable-soul

We're on Instagram @girlslunchpod. Nicole's website is nicolehylton.com. Have an episode suggestion or question? You can email us at girlslunchpodcast@gmail.com and we will add it to our chaotic list of future episode subjects.

Sources:

• Yesteryear, by Caro Claire Burke

• "#Tradwife Life as Self-Annihilation," by Anne Helen Peterson on the Culture Studies Substack

• "Episode 18: Trad Wives," In Bed With the Right podcast

• "TikTok Gets the Boot, Plus a 'Tradwife' Fantasy," NPR's It's Been a Minute

• "The Agoraphobic Fantasy of Tradlife," by Zoe Hu for Dissent Magazine