6/26/2023 0 Comments The stepford wives book![]() Both A Kiss Before Dying and Rosemary’s Baby were critically acclaimed and drew sizable audiences at the box office. Before The Stepford Wives, Levin’s literary work had already proven to be successful adaptations into film. ![]() In popular entertainment, the Hayes production codes were lifted on film and art was growing increasingly more sinister and risqué as a reaction to real life. Ira Levin’s novel The Stepford Wives, published in 1972, is a satirically dark look at suburban life in the nineteen-seventies during a climactic time in American history-after the civil rights movement, amidst the height of the feminist movement, right before the Watergate scandal, and the resignation of Richard Nixon. The Stepford Wives and The Feminine Mystique ![]()
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