5/29/2023 0 Comments The stepford wives by ira levin![]() ![]() Ira Levin says that when he published “The Stepford Wives” 30 years ago on Oct. Then those two women changed overnight, finding sudden profound happiness in a well-waxed floor and supportive undergarments and Joanna was left all alone, with her husband and his creepy friends, one of whom had worked-aha!-in the animatronics division at Disneyland. was a bastion of chauvinism, that a dirty kitchen was the sign of a creative mind, that the women in Stepford, with their slim waists and big breasts, were just too perfect and really kind of weird. How there were only two other women in town who felt as she did-that the fenced-in Men’s Assn. Well, we all know what happened next, don’t we? How Joanna began noticing that all the women in the suburban town were perfectly coiffed and groomed and could not be pried from their housewifely duties with a crowbar. “And I want to wish you a sincere and hearty welcome to Stepford.” “It’s a nice town with nice people!” she told Joanna, who still had boxes in the living room. ![]() It’s three decades now since the Welcome Wagon lady showed up at Joanna Eberhart’s door with her packets of powdered breakfast drink and unrelenting smile. ![]()
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