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What was society's reaction to the book "The Stepford Wives" in the 70's?

The 1970s was very much the period when the second wave of female emancipation began.Women had originally begun to assert themselves as people during WWII when they had real jobs in factories - but the Eisenhower years had rolled that back.
The 1970s was the era when contraception became freely available, and for the first time a woman's life was not at constant risk of being derailed by an unplanned for pregnancy.
Much popular culture in the 1970s simply celebrated women's emancipation - the films Barbarella and Thoroughly Modern Millie are examples of such. The Stepford Wives was a chilling reminder of what society used to regard as normal.
In Ira Levin's novel the heroine first realises that something is wrong when she catches her husband masturbating in bed. Levin is reminding us what sort of a man wants a wife who is a domestic automaton.
It was too close to the knuckle for most Americans to deal with - that sequence does not appear in the film.

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The Stepford Wives $11.65 The women of Stepford are not all that they seem... All the beautiful people live in idyllic Stepford, Connecticut, an affluent, suburban Eden populated with successful, satisfied hubbies and beautiful, dutiful wives. For Joanna Eberhart, newly arrived with her husband and two children, it all seems too good to be true -- from the sweet Welcome Wagon lady to all those cheerful, friendly faces in the supermarket checkout lines. But just beneath the town's flawless surface, something is sordid and wrong -- something abominable with roots in the local Men's Association. And it may already be too late for Joanna to save herself from being devoured by Stepford's hideous perfection.

The Stepford Wives - Widescreen Collector's Subtitle $9.99 Ira Levin's best-selling novel about a town where great wives aren't born but made gets a second screen adaptation in this darkly satirical comedy drama. Joanna Eberhart (Nicole Kidman) is a successful television executive until one day her career hits the glass ceiling and crashes to the ground. Looking to take some time off to start over, Joanna and her husband, Walter Kresby (Matthew Broderick), pull up stakes and move to the peaceful suburban community of Stepford. Walter takes to his new environment with real enthusiasm and joins the local men's organization, headed by one Mike Wellington. Joanna, on the other hand, finds that Stepford is just a bit too quiet and well-groomed for her taste, and is taken aback by the aggressively cheerful and servile attitude of Mike's wife, Claire (Glenn Close), and the other women of the community. A notable exception is Bobbi Markowitz (Bette Midler), a happily misanthropic writer who revels in her lack of enthusiasm for housework or exercise. Joanna and Bobbi become fast friends, but as they look closer at the all-too-perfect surfaces of Stepford and its female inhabitants, they slowly discover a terrible secret lurking beneath. Also featuring Faith Hill, Jon Lovitz, and Roger Bart, The Stepford Wives was previously adapted for the screen in 1975, with Katherine Ross in the lead; that version spawned three made-for-TV sequels. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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The Stepford Wives(DVD / FS / Special Edition) $4.5 Synopsis: When a successful network executive gets fired and suffers a nervous breakdown, her husband thinks a change of scenery will help speed the recovery process. The couple and their two children settle into the picturesque city of Stepford, Connecticut. Things are not as they appear though, as all the wives turn out to be models who serve their husbands' every desire. Is it something in the water? Is the town possessed? The new tenants haplessly try to find out before it's too late. Format: DVD Color: Color Rating: PG-13 RatingReason: sexual content, thematic material and language Genre: Comedy Runtime: 93 minutes Year: 2004

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