The Stepford Wives (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Ira Levin
- First Published: 1972
- Type of Work: Novella
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—feminist
- Time of Work: The 1970’s
- Setting: The suburb of Stepford, in the eastern United States
- Genres: Short fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s, United States or Americans, Middle classes, Feminism, Robots or robotics
- Locales: East (U.S.)
The Plot
Joanna and Walter Eberhart and their two children move from New York City to idyllic Stepford, where they find glamorous housewives who delight in waxing floors and cleaning ovens. Joanna discovers that the Men’s Association, led by a former audioanimatronics expert for Disneyland, disposes of the wives and replaces them with robots who have enhanced anatomies and reduced personalities. Neither this short novel nor the film that was made of it in 1974 was enthusiastically reviewed, nor were the made-for-television sequels, Revenge of the Stepford Wives (1980)...
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