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This week, Martha Stewart is reissuing her iconic 1982 book Entertaining , which established her as a household name in the realm of lifestyle and decor. Looking back on that era in a recent episode of the podcast Lipstick on the Rim , she described herself in this way : “I was the original fucking tradwife. I was beautiful, I was very thin and shapely, I grew my own pigs and my own goats and my own chickens.”

And indeed, though the fashion and decor have changed, flipping through the pages of Entertaining feels superficially similar to scrolling through the tradwife corner of Instagram. The queen of the tradwives , Hannah Neeleman , shows off her

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