Estrangement in the Intentional Community of Stepford Suburb in Ira Levin s The Stepford Wives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21996381 |
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| Authors | Emine Şentürk (0000-0002-7546-1587, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | - |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 235-248 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mediterranean Journal of Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2146-4812 • E-ISSN: 2148-144X |
| Publisher | Mediterranean Journal of Humanities (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.13114/mjh.2021.562 |
| OpenAlex | W3173614096 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
The concept of intentional community as a distanced geography or land which is estranged from the conventional and traditional social placement would be a convenient term to identify Ira Levin's Stepford suburb. The neighbourhood in The Stepford Wives is depicted as an imaginary ideal place where the life is idealized by the husbands, and from the patriarchal perspective, it is regarded as a good place to live. The men are satisfied and pleased with their domestic, obedient, always incredibly beautiful, and overjoyed wives. The husband-oriented wives who show no sign of exhaustion, who have no interest or hobby apart from staying at home and doing the housework, who are doll-like figures, and additionally the unrealistic and euphoric atmosphere at homes in Stepford create the factor of estrangement here. Thus, in this paper, the intentional community of Stepford in Ira Levin's literary work The Stepford Wives will be analysed by referring to Lucy Sargisson's work on "intentional communities" to shed a light on the estrangement concept and its social and literary role to raise awareness of woman liberation in a sarcastic way in the times the work is published
Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Medicine · Psychology · Urbanization and City Planning · Gerontology
| Highly cited | No |
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