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Michelle Arrow, Professor of History, Macquarie University

'Suburban living did turn women into robots': why feminist horror novel The Stepford Wives is still relevant, 50 years on

The Stepford Wives (1975) IMBD

On August 26 1970, 50,000 women marched down Fifth Avenue in New York City in a Women’s Strike. Organised by feminist activist Betty Friedan, the march highlighted the fact women still performed the vast majority of domestic work.

The Women’s Liberation Movement wanted many things in 1970, but one of the most important was freedom from “unpaid domestic servitude at home”.

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