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 ...

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 ...

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.

Suddenly you heard: “Oh, she’s such a Stepford Wife …” Shamed, the so-called domestic ... a ‘50s Disneyland of suburban affluence in which dumpy men are married to women who dress and ...

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 ...

This season's frilly dresses are as frothy as a coconut cream pie lovingly taken out of the oven by a Stepford wife. ... "I wasn't going for a '50s look -- not at all," she says.

This self-proclaimed 'Stepford wife' retrained as a lawyer in her 40s. ... In her mid-50s, she was given the opportunity to train as a barrister, and said she "absolutely grabbed it".

Just like the wives of Stepford, the women of the '50s seem to have often made an effort with their appearances, always looking fabulous in that Betty Draper sort of way.

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 ...