Why feminist horror novel "The Stepford Wives" is still relevant, 50 years on Sure, suburban living turned women into robots, but this telling also reveals the complicity of husbands ...

For the past 50 years, a “Stepford Wife” came to mean a brainwashed, vacant person, who is being controlled by someone else, usually a man.

Yet the term “Stepford Wife” has passed into the lexicon as feminist shorthand for a woman who has surrendered her ... First published 50 years ago, The Stepford Wives was the creation ...

What’s striking is how that idea still resonates 50 years later in a movie like Companion.The women’s liberation movement itself is older than that, and there’s no question that while ...

In his 1972 novel The Stepford Wives, Ira Levin powerfully dramatised women’s suburban alienation and men’s resistance to feminist change. Michelle Arrow traces its enduring influence.

The Stepford Wives turns 50. Thread starter JournalBot; Start date Feb 23, 2025; ... People are getting ahead of themselves in thinking that this kind of result (a Stepford Wife) ...

While at the Venice International Film Festival on Aug. 30, Kidman attended a photocall for her newest project, Babygirl.The actor walked the red carpet in style—'50s style, to be exact ...

But it is not so easy to connect one of the most prominent feminist tropes of the 2020s with the films in which they originated. Few people today are watching the 1975 movie The Stepford Wives ...