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I Want a Wife by Judy Brady

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Judy Brady was born in San Francisco and attended the University of Iowa, graduating with B.A. in 1962. She is a feminist and politician activist. I choose to write about her essay “I want a wife” because think that the society have a wrong vision about the role of a wife in a family. So first I’m goanna summarize the essay that Judy Brady did for understand it better and then I’m goanna explain my point of view with this topic. Judy Brady persuades us with a very important situation that we can see this situation also today. The situation that she points out is the role of a wife in a relationship with or without children. She explain that is better to have a wife than a husband because on the society, we see wives like housekeepers. Brady illustrates her point of view with an example about a friend that she had. He was recently divorced and he was looking for another wife. But she doesn’t understand why he was looking for another wife if he just broke up. She explains all the things that a wife has to do. A wife has to be a housekeeper and a mother not only to his children but apparently to her husband also. A wife has to be sexually active, a friend who will be there in good and bad moments and an assistant who makes appointments with the dentist, for example, or with the doctor for both the children and the husband. What Judy Brady implies with all of these is that a wife has to take care of everyone else. She never suggests that the wife has to have moments for her, time with herself, she can’t study or have friends because she has to be watching for his family. From my point of view, society have to change his vision about wives roles in a family. They have dreams to, they have a life that is not her family only, and they have the right for fight for their goals. If she wants to go out with her friends and his husband has to take care of his children so it’s good. A wife is a human to and they have the same r

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