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Joanna Eberhart (Katharine Ross) moves to the quiet town of Stepford with her husband (Peter Masterson) and children. The town seems perfect -- maybe a little too perfect.
Maybe it's just me, but I see the Stepford Wives as the primer used by the GOP after the fall of the Nixon administration as the way to return to power. To wit: Turning loved ones into mindless ...
Stepford Wife has a negative connotation associated with it, and TradWife was an attempt by supporters of patriarchy to brand patriarchy as applied to women as something positive.
Like many what’s-wrong-with-this-small-town movies, The Stepford Wives focuses on a newly arrived big-city couple, Joanna (Katharine Ross) and Walter (Peter Masterson). Soon, Joanna becomes ...
If in the 1970s literature dropped the term “Stepford wife” to define a caring, beautiful partner, perfect in her exuberant and helpful femininity, following Ira Levin’s classic horror novel The ...
The meaning of The Stepford Wives Ira Levin, who died in 2007, said that he based the town of Stepford on the village of Wilton, Connecticut, where he lived in the 1960s.
Nicole Kidman stars in Frank Oz's "mildly diverting" remake of The Stepford Wives based on Ira Levin's novel about a picture-perfect suburban town populated with robotic women. Although she never ...
How to become the perfect, “surrendered” wife Step 1: Rid vocabulary of the word "but." Step 2: Always agree with your husband.
According to a royal author, Kate Middleton is far from “Stepford Wife.” Instead, they’d describe the Princess of Wales, 42, as a “great role model ” and a “solution finder.” ...
Princess Kate is no "Stepford Wife," her biographer has claimed, dubbing the description as "really wrong" in a new television interview. Robert Jobson, who has authored the newly released book ...