The Stepford Wives language after the publication of Levin's book and it is generally used as a derogatory term which refers to a submissive and docile wife who seems to conform blindly to the stereotype of an old-fashioned subservient role in relationship to her husband. It is sometimes used in reference to any woman, even an accomplished professional woman, who had subordinated her life or career to her husband's interests and who affected submission and devotion to him even in the face of the husband's public problems and disgrace. The Stepford Wives The Stepford Wives is a 1972 satirical thriller novel by Ira
Somebody else's wife and a husband under the bed film in 1984, directed by Vitaly Melnikov. Somebody else's wife and a husband under the bed "Somebody else's wife and a husband under the bed" (, "Chuzhaya zhena i muzh pod krovatyu") is an 1848 short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The story originated from two separate pieces: "Somebody else's wife and a husband under the bed" (published in 1848 in the journal "Notes of the Fatherland"). In preparing the 1859 two-volume collected works, the writer combined both in one story - "Another Man's Wife and the husband under the bed." The first part only slightly changed certain lines, while the