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- Mike's wife Claire explains that she created Stepford because she, too, was a bitter career-minded woman. When she discovered Mike's affair with her research assistant, she murdered them in a jealous rage, then used her skills as a brain surgeon to develop the Stepford Wives program to improve marriages.
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The story concerns Joanna Eberhart, a talented photographer, wife, and young mother who suspects that something in the town of Stepford is changing the wives from free-thinking, intelligent women into compliant wives dedicated solely to homemaking.
- Ira Levin
- 1972
The Stepford Wives: Directed by Frank Oz. With Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, Glenn Close. The secret to a Stepford wife lies behind the doors of the Men's Association.
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- Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
- Frank Oz
- 2004-06-11
- Dramatising Women’s Suburban Alienation
- An Extraordinary Feminist Horror Novel
- From Post-Feminism to Get Out: Cultural Influence
Ira Levin’s novel The Stepford Wivesoffered a bleak answer: women themselves would be replaced. Levin powerfully dramatised women’s suburban alienation and men’s resistance to feminist change. The Stepford Wives begins with Joanna Eberhart, a wife, mother and photographer, who moves with her family from Manhattan to the suburban town of Stepford. S...
The Stepford Wives is an extraordinary feminist horror novel. Its vision of a group of men who engineer housework-loving robots to replace their restless wives offered not only a satire of male fears of women’s liberation, but a savage view of heterosexual marriage. In this telling, a man would rather kill his wife and replace her with a robot than...
It is telling that in post-feminist 2004, the Joanna in the Frank Oz film remake of The Stepford Wives is not a woman seeking liberation, but a TV network president who creates crass reality TV programs. Women’s liberation had been transformed into corporate feminism, and the engineer of the scheme was not the Stepford Men’s Association, but an exh...
- Michelle Arrow
The secret to a Stepford wife lies behind the doors of the Men's Association. Joanna Eberhart, a wildly successful president of a TV Network, after a series of shocking events, suffers a nervous breakdown and is moved by her milquetoast of a husband, Walter, from Manhattan to the chic, upper-class, and very modern planned community of Stepford, ...
The Stepford Wives has feminist elements and focuses on the life and perspective of protagonist Joanna Eberhart when she moves to Stepford, Connecticut, and begins to suspect something is wrong with the women who live there.
Chapter 1. Joanna Eberhart has just moved from New York City to the suburban town of Stepford with her husband, Walter, and their two kids. The houses here are beautiful, but the women who live here are all old-fashioned and emotionally distant, and they only seem to care housework and pleasing their husbands.
Sep 1, 1972 · There's a frightening secret in the town of Stepford, and Joanna & Bobbie hope to get out of Dodge before it's too late, but the Men's Association is powerful and time is running out. THE STEPFORD WIVES is a creepy little satirical novella that proves (some) men are pretty shallow or really were afraid of the Women's Liberation Movement!
