• DOI:10.1353/RAP.2003.0028
Corpus ID: 143094250

Feminism, Miss America, and Media Mythology

@article{Dow2003FeminismMA,
  title={Feminism, Miss America, and Media Mythology},
  author={Bonnie J. Dow},
  journal={Rhetoric & Public Affairs},
  year={2003},
  volume={6},
  pages={127 - 149}
}

• Bonnie J. Dow
• Published 2003
• Sociology
• Rhetoric & Public Affairs

When Joanna, the central protagonist in The Stepford Wives, utters these words in a conversation with her best friend, she is discussing the formation of a feminist consciousness-raising group. Both women feel stifled by the atmosphere in Stepford, Connecticut, the New York suburb to which they recently have moved with their families. In Stepford, as anyone familiar with the film remembers, formerly strong-willed, dynamic women are mysteriously transformed into perfectly groomed, robotic beings… Expand

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