Abstract

The Stepford Wives, a novel by Ira Levin published in 1972, describes a micro-dystopian society, whichimposes a strict ‘traditional’ order, by transforming women into compliant wives programmed to serve their husbands. The book has been adapted to screen several times. The present paper will focus on a comparisonbetween the original literary work and thefirst adaptation of 1975 by British director Bryan Forbes, seen through the notions of genre, gender, class and race.

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