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Guyton attributes her conservative attitude toward "women's lib" to her Southern upbringing. She says that enough of the "propaganda" at Harvard has "seeped through" so that she is now intent on pursuing a career as a doctor, but she still retains a firm belief in what she calls "chivalry...
...Andelin says that many of her graduates quit their jobs unless the extra income is essential. "There are sufficient men to be Presidents and not nearly enough women to be good mothers," she declares. But whatever the movement owes to the anxieties raised by women's lib, Andelin insists she is not antifeminist. She is simply concerned with making traditional marriage work. "I was even surprised when women's lib came on the scene," she says, "I thought Fascinating Womanhood was what all women were waiting...
...years ago was that it might make a pretty good movie. The best thing you can say about the movie is that they were wrong-not wildly, but enough. Levin's notion was that a community of commuter types might become so fed up with women's lib-or maybe just old-fashioned female contrariness-that it would strike a bargain with a Disneyland fugitive. His idea is to do in their spouses and replace them with physically exact duplicates moved by predictable electronic impulses instead of whimsical human ones...
...maybe they just should have skipped the whole thing. Obviously, The Stepford Wives aspires to be a women's lib parable, realizing the female's worst fears about her mate's desire to dehumanize her. But it is too glibly on the side of the fashionable angels. Moreover, the movie never shows a single man whose feminine ideal exceeds gatefold dimensions. That too is a form of dehumanization...
...Jane Alpert has dropped bombing and is into women's lib [Jan. 27]. What greater "recommendation" could we ask for the women's liberation movement and the Equal Rights Amendment? Couldn't somebody have put a gag in her mouth, at least until the ERA is passed...