and this is shown on the essay when she writes this ”If, by chance , I find another person more suitable as a wife than the wife I already have, I want the liberty to replace my present wife with another one” Really, is sad but is the truth, men do think women’s are objects they can’t take and leave when they want and demand things and expect to received without giving. As I read the essay it was stupid to see that they didn’t realize that all the wife’s duties could also be done by men, like cleaning, working, taking care of the kids, and of course pleasing their wife’s when she
What a wife it would be When a reader first looks at Brady’s essay one might think it was written by a man. However after reading the first paragraph the reader will realize that the author is indeed a woman and may be confused as to why the title is “Why I Want A Wife”. Brady gives a reasonable argument as to the unequal views on the roles of the husband and wife. By listing the many examples of a wife’s responsibilities, she hopes to sway a woman or man’s feelings and encourages them to perhaps modify the usual tradition of marriage and companionship. The audience she has chosen would most likely be women or married couples.
Lucretia, the housewife of husband John Burnett, feels unappreciated and taken for granted while she maintains the house and raises their children. She spends her whole day “rearing...[her children]... and looking after her husband and the house” (King). This is the normal role of the housewife during the late 19th century. John Burnett worked on the construction of the railroads in town under the boss who would later steal his wife. Women in the Victorian era were dependent on their husbands financially and one third of all women in england still led a domestic housewife role (“Victoria’s Past”).
And in turn, this makes her very believable when reading the essay. Judy Brady is talking to many different people with her essay, in many ways she’s talking to everyone from young adults and all the way up in age. People at different ages will react differently to her essay and when you take into account the different ways of thinking of people it is impossible to predict how they will react to her essay. However many women, especially women who are younger and have not married, will probably react by choosing their husbands more wisely and not think that all they have to do as a wife is be the full time maid, organizer and birthing tool. She explain her main claims very well, however they are not very logical for this day and age, when you look at the average household these days the work is evenly divided up between both of the partners.
Judy Brady, in her essay “Why I Want a Wife”, use irony tone to list that the responsibilities of the traditional wives in society. Throughout the essay, she informs the reader about the different treatments between the gender roles and shares her desperate feeling of being a wife. The essay begins with the author categorizing herself as a wife and a mother. While thinking about her male friend who is looking for another wife after divorce, she suddenly wants a wife and she lists the reasons why she would like to have a wife. The first reason is that a wife can take care of her children while her husband goes back to school.
Staci Whitten Kamrar Writing 115 4-20-11 My Response on, I want a Wife, By Judy Brady The article I Want a Wife, by Judy Brady was a very up- setting, heart racing and a very mind boggling article to have to read. I thought this essay was a piece of crap. I thought it was very sexist, and is very degrading on women. If I would be able to say a few words to the author I’d tell them that they should be a shamed of writing this. When I first started reading this i started getting upset than my feeling of upset went to mad, then that went from mad to beyond pissed off.
Introduction We find ourselves in relationships and in most cases within marriage where we have lost affect communication with who we are romantically engaged with all together. Women hear their husbands or boyfriends say’ “Who are you anyway?” or “She’s not the same person I married.” And how about the women who complain to their friends about how their men have changed. The truth is that there is not enough self-disclosure in relationships. Self-disclosure is the main ingredient to successful relationships and allowing partners to know who they have and not just what differences they have. Facing what researchers have found self-disclosure and what it looks like, the importance of it and how it’s related to approval in relationships, gender differences and similarities, and where the writer fits into the generalizations regarding gender will determine that sharing personal feelings with others can build and maintain healthy relationships and marriage regardless of differences in gender.
Choose two marriage proposals to analyse and compare, and base your response on these. The role of women plays a key component in the plot of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The novel is about a family consisting of five daughters, the Bennetts, who live in the regency period. The main topic of most significance is marriage, as in those days the most thought about thing was marriage as women were not allowed to earn an income and therefore needed someone to provide for them when their parents died. Because of this, it seems appropriate that Austen's novel follows the lives of the five Bennett daughters on their search to find the ideal husband.
This is where the increase of females’ domestic work started. Women were full-time housewives where they spent the whole day doing housework and looking after the children when they came home from school. The men were the breadwinners of the house and spent little time at home. They would go out to the pubs with work mates and spend little leisure time with their children and wives. Feminist Ann Oakley (1974) disagreed with Young and Willmotts view and said that yes, men were helping more around that house but women still did the majority of the work, but argued that the research they did was inaccurate as the husbands they interviewed said
She states in the first chapter that the “solace” of marriage is “visiting and news.” This explains why Mrs Bennett is so desperate for her husband to visit Bingley and find out more about him and to introduce him to their daughters. It is either her marriage that she is worrying about or the prospect of her daughters’ marriages. Marriage is also presented as a key moment in the lives of women and this is shown by the fact that the only things that Mr and Mrs Bennett discuss in the first chapter of the book are their daughter’s possible marriages. The significance of marriage in