Choose any of the specific details in Brady’s “I Want a Wife” and react strongly
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Choose any of the specific details in Brady’s “I Want a Wife” and react strongly to it. Give actual examples from your own observations and experiences which confirm or disconfirm the chosen detail. Write a full paragraph (at least five sentences). Post your response. Post a comment on someone else’s response.
UDY BRADY (b. 1937) is a freelance writer whose work has many periodicals, including Ms., Greenpeace, and The Womp Women's Revin Books. Much of her writing concerns the politics surroundi She has edited both w the environmental causes of cancer. She has edited bthcer Women and Cancer (1990) and One in Three: Women with Gancer Confront a Epidemic (1991). "I Want a Wife" debuted publicly in 1970 when Brady read it at a in 1970, and it celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of women's suffra was published two years later in the first issue of Ms. magazine. In the essay provides a satiric look at what a wife is-or at least As you read, consider the stereotype of the perfect wife that Bra playing upon in the early days of the modern feminist movement. Has t definition of"wife" changed today? dy was I BELONG TO THAT CLASSIFICATION of people known as wives.I A Wife. And, not altogether incidentally, I am a mother. am Not too long ago a male friend of mine appeared on the scene fresh from a recent divorce. He had one child, who is, of course, with ex-wife. He is obviously looking for another wife. As I thought about him while I was ironing one evening, it suddenly occurred to me that I, too, would like to have a wife. Why do I want a wife? I would like to go back to school so that I can become economicaly independent, support myself, and, if need be, support those depeir dent upon me. I want a wife who will work and send me to school. And while I am going to school I want a wife to take care of the children Copyright 1 Want a Wife" by Judy Brady from Ms. Magazine, December 1971 by Judy Brady. Reprinted by permission of the authorExplanation / Answer
Reading the details bring me smile with of proud feeling as it shows the versatility of being women and so-called WIFE. Being a woman, a wife and a mother could see my self in description very well. But I have discomfort simple because somewhere it has degraded or disrespect the complete versatility. we are not maid or slaves. God has created us so capable to take so many roles and I am really proud.
My sisters are separated from their husbands and both the sisters have kids, Both are financially stable and living best of her lives. I have seen them doing every bit at home from the office to home works it's just that they not live typical WIFE life from the sexual point. They are happy and THEY DO NOT NEED MEN or CALLED THEMSELVES A MEN WHO NEED WIFE TO SURVIVE BY TAKING CARE ALL THE NEEDS.