In This Issue


Double-Shift: Dialectic of the Tradwife
For six decades, fanatical Andelinians all around the world have preached—and monetized—a self-help doctrine of uxorial mortification, self-infantilization, and husband-worship. Sophie Lewis explains.

Against the Wife: Abolishing Romance and Family, Practicing Disability Love-Politics
Jina B. Kim asks: Why does disability crop up as the antithesis of romance, desire, and long-term fulfillment—as something to perhaps be endured in the name of love, but never anything that might re-shape how we approach love and romance in the first place?

Merchandizing the Void
Kelly Pendergrast on Khloé Kardashian's massive stage set of a home pantry, grids, spreadsheets, and the wife as home manager.

Wedding Cake Toppers: Miniatures, Excess, and Fantasy
Kendall deBoer writes what may be the first critical history of wedding cake toppers, tying frilly white doves and normative bride-and-groom couples to feminist art and DIY craft practices that offer opportunities for creativity and fantasy.

Ex-Wifey Dream Diary
Danielle Drori tells the story of her divorce through dream interpretation, pouring pyschoanalytic theory into a stream of the unconscious.

Rise of the Fallen Wife Guy
Lily Sparks’s scathing takedown of the fallen wife guy uncovers the true transgression of the Instagram husband writ large: his reckless destruction of his once-profitable image.

On Intimacy: An Interview with Chloë Bass
In conversation with Dilettante Army, artist Chloë Bass talks about her work on intimacy and its growing scales of partnership, group, and institution.
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