Cat Tebaldi, "Romance, Rhetoric and the Right: how White Nationalism uses Women’s language"

Cat Tebaldi

Université du Luxembourg, Department of Humanities

Romance, Rhetoric and the Right:
how White Nationalism uses Women’s language

Abstract: This lecture will explore how white nationalist influencers known as tradwives use the conventions of women’s language to frame nationalism as a romantic idyll. Analyzing both YouTube and Instagram of tradwives “Blonde in the Belly of the Beast”, Brittany Sellner, and and romance and sex manuals by Helen Andelin, Marabel Morgan, and David Duke it analyses how hyper-feminine aesthetics and the metapragmatics of romance and sex guides are used for a racist, white nationalist metapolitics.