1989, Sarah Pettit, "Tying the Knot (Noose?)", OutWeek, 18 September 1989, page 39:
These gals are not wrapped up in some pert, Stepfordian happee homemaking bonanza.
1998, Karen Anijar, "Once Upon a Time When We Where White – A Rather Grimm Fairy Tale", in White Reign: Deploying Whiteness in America (eds. Joe Kincheloe, Shirley R. Steinberg, Nelson M. Rodriguez, & Ronald E. Chennault), page 253:
I went to my son’s middle school graduation. Everyone seemed White, even the Latinos and the Blacks seemed White. Was it the sol in Ron’s bad limericks that lightened and bleached the whole group of well-scrubbed young Stepfordian faces?
2002, Jeff Z. Klein, "Who Cares If He's Gay? Mike Piazza's a Big Sellout", Details, August 2002, page 52:
But Piazza, whose flattened affect is ideally suited to pitching an oceanic array of products, makes such come-hither antics as posing shirtless for Sports Illustrated Women seem utterly Stepfordian. Indeed, he brings major rasa to the tabula.
Although all of the young women I met tonight (well, technically last night, but since I still haven't gone to bed yet . . .) were friendly, outgoing, and actually surprisingly un-Stepfordian, I have a feeling that comp sci, the paper, and any other form of life I choose to have this semester will actually take up enough time that I don't need to do this.
2007, Susan Maushart, What Women Want Next, page 226:
It’s as if these young women are wanting exactly the lives their mothers have had, minus the angst and stripped of the idealism. Nice work if you can get it, I guess. One can't help but feel a sense of anti-climax about all this — as if all of feminism’s hard work has ended not with a bang or even a whimper but a smug, slightly Stepfordian smile.
2008, Allison Winn Scott, Time of My Life, page 34:
Maybe she dreamed of something more, and when I came along, and then Andy, my brother, came along, she couldn't take one more fucking minute of the Stepfordian existence that she’d built with my father.
2010, The Ultimate Guide to Mad Men (ed. Will Dean), page 123:
She's so completely submitted herself to this Stepfordian world, to this Betty Crocker persona, that she can't fathom why he would stray from it - we see this when she later asks, quite honestly: "Do you hate me, Don?"
Another says it would be Stepfordian to have no one under poverty level anywhere in sight.
2005, Danielle Pergament, "Camilla Belle", Interview, March 2005, page 97:
Co-starring Rory Culkin and Jamie Bell, it takes place in “a perfect neighborhood with perfect Monopoly houses,” she says. But scratch the Stepfordian surface, and you'll find all kinds of misery and dysfunction lurking.
2010, Franklin Schneider, Canned: How I Lost Ten Jobs in Ten Years and Learn to Love Unemployment, page 249:
Aside from the utopian vibe there was a relentless Stepfordian positivity so that even that last traditional bastion of critical thought—gossipping about coworkers—was well out of bounds.
2012, Mark Dery, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-By Essays on American Dread, American Dreams, page 188:
I like a good apocalypse as much as the next American, which is why I’ll be braving the Stepfordian horrors of the local mall for the opening of 2012, Roland Emmerich’s latest exercise in disaster porn.
2014, David McCullough, You Are Not Special...And Other Encouragements, page 153:
All too often, the kid, the college aspirant, feels compelled to become downright Stepfordian — highly skilled at achieving results and appearing sincere.
2016, Jennifer Ryan, Lia Riley, & Maisey Yates, Snowbound at Christmas, page 323:
For a moment, she imagined it. Being with him. Standing with him in front of the Christmas tree down in the living room, his arms wrapped around her.
Okay, so her fantasy was a little bit Stepfordian. And Devlin would never be that.
But now as I roughly slotted the dishes into the machine I thought about Milo, and about Anna, of course, and how the news of her death would ricochet about the neighborhood. What a total disruption it would mean to the Stepfordian status quo. The few murders that happened anywhere around Weycombe were confined to the chaotic council estates.