I Want a Wife by Judy Brady Essay

I Want a Wife Who would not want a wife? Someone to cook, clean, take care of them when they are sick. “I Want a Wife,” written by Judy Brady, explains how Judy would like to have a wife of her own. I do not think that Judy Brady is upset in her role as a wife but overwhelmed with her duties such as cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children. Foremost, cooking is a big responsibility in itself. I know that my wife puts in hours each day deciding on and preparing what to cook for our family. Brady writes, “I want a wife who cooks the meals, a wife who is a good cook. I want a wife who will plan the menus, do the necessary grocery shopping, prepare the meals, serve them pleasantly, and then do the cleaning up…” (252). My wife, Jennifer,…

During the mid 1900’s, when this article titled “I Want a Wife” was published in New York, a wife’s role in a marriage was to take care of the house work and their children. Judy Brady writes this article to shine light on the fact that wives should not be obligated to do certain “wife” task. She also makes it clear that many wives want more independence from their stereotypical duties that they are “supposed” to do. Brady begins her essay by explaining that she “wants a wife.” In role…

Judy Brady sarcastically describes women’s roles in the 1970s in her essay “I Want a Wife”. As a part of a growing feminist movement, Brady wished to make known the daily hardships women face in their households. Brady crafts her satirical essay making use of rhetorical strategies, repetition, emotional appeal, and reversal, in order to shed light on the prevailing stereotypes and expectations set upon women in her time. Brady forms her essay while keeping her audience in mind. She recognizes…

Gender Roles in the ‘70s Judy Brady, in her tongue-in-cheek essay, “I Want a Wife”, uses irony in a few different ways to address the issue of gender inequality in the spectrum of gender roles in the 1970’s and serves as a tool to grab the readers’ attention. It is also used to add humor and to expand a judgment of a man’s perspective on gender roles. She illustrates a male’s perspective of women in that era and the irony that existed between a man’s expectations of women and what was expected…

Nostalgia is defined as an excessively sentimental yearning for return to, or of some sort of past period or irrecoverable condition. Throughout human history, women have had a certain expectation placed onto them when they become a wife and mother. With the steps humanity has made in the right direction to create a better world and society, the stereotypes placed on women have not gone away due to nostalgia of the past. Judy Brady explores this in the article, “I Want A Wife” and she sheds on…

In the Piece of work called “I want a wife” by Judy Brady, she defines the simple term Wife. In the mind of anyone, people would just consider a wife as a partner who’s married and basically the individual that nurtures the children. While, the way Brady writes about a wife is intriguing. She goes into detail about how individuals interpret the word wife. As well as, She puts her own experience into the word wife, since she knows she isn’t the only one. In Fact, she basically lists all the…

the 1960s. “Why I Want A Wife” by Judy Brady is an excellent example of the stereotypical person over estimating housewifes. A housewife is a married woman who manages her own own household as her main occupation. In Brady’s article she talks about everyday tasks a housewife accomplishes and why she would like to have a housewife herself through the scenarios she tells and repetition. Brady starts her article by saying she is a wife. “I belong to that classification of people known as wives,”…

people, and this has placed a heavy cloud over the heads of people in the world. We as humans have been placed in a realm of expectations and how we should live our lives. These expectations and how we should live our lives. These expectations that have been placed upon us even controls the way we behave, and if we do not behave the way society wants us to, we get talked about and looked down upon on. Such as if a woman checks “Mrs.” or “Miss” defines whether or not she is married but if she…

In her essay titled “Why I [Still] Want a Wife”, Judy Brady argues that wives are automatically assigned the role of primary care taker and home maker in a traditional marriage. Brady states that in her marriage she is expected to earn an income while her husband pursues a higher education, she is expected to perform all parental duties exclusively, tend to all housework, tend to her husband’s sexual needs and desires with no regard to her own, and be a hostess all while keeping quiet and doing…

the time around the 1960s and 1970s, a feminist movement was in an effort striving to achieve equal liberties socially and politically for all women. Author Judy Brady, wrote the essay “I Want a Wife”, in light of the feminist movement. In the essay the author cleverly places the reader into the man’s viewpoint to visualize all of a wife’s responsibilities that a husband desires while allowing the reader to realize how discriminating and cruel it is to have to be that kind of spouse. As a whole,…