Adapting the Stepford Wives with Sarah Archer

A very special election day episode for the rushed, sloppy, irritated, and alive. There are two movie adaptations of Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives, and midcentury scholar Sarah Archer came by to talk about both of them—and why this story just keeps getting more relevant. Extra credit reading/viewing: Premilla Nadasen's "From Widow to 'Welfare Queen': Welfare and the Politics of Race" on JSTOR Shulie (1967) Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution