The Feminist Wife Analysis

She is who retains feminist ideas while also maintaining her relationships, but most importantly her marriage. The Feminist Wife does not buy into the idea that a woman’s sole purpose in life is to search for the man of her dreams in order to live happily ever after. She is aware that this is a socially constructed idea that has been perpetuated in the media and that this notion is not imbedded within nature. She does not believe in the idea that the wife and husband are meant to be. Instead, she is cognitively aware that marriages do fail and that women are still capable of being successful and happy without the addition of a man. Payette claims that the Feminist Wife does not get wrapped up in the “socially idealistic life” that ultimately threatens their loss of self-identity. This woman makes appoint to marry for one reason: love. She is not the wife who weds with the hope of molding their partner into this perfection of a being. The Feminist Wife gives up the fantasy images that we unconsciously attach to our mates and accepts them as …show more content…
In a marriage, there should be a concern for the needs of the other person. Both the husband and wife have the right to use their bodies for the sake of the other person. It has been said that you lose sole authority over your body now that you are married. What this means is that the wife sexually tends to the husband, as the husband is expected to do the same for the wife. Under rare circumstance should the duty to fulfil the other person’s sexual needs end. In the instance that it needs to, the couple is to come to a mutual agreement while the duty is only halted and not terminated all together. After whatever the reasoning for abstaining has concluded, the couple is to immediately go back to providing for each other. Thus, sex is embedded within the marriage to the point where there is no room to