Feminist Objectives, I Am A Wife By Judy Brady

The 70’s are well known for the woman's right movement. Women were striving for equal rights with men, which include voting and equal pay. Literature was a powerful weapon in the fight for these rights. Companies like Ms. Magazines published essays with strong feminist ideals, written by women like Judy Brady. In the passage “Why I Want a Wife,” the author Judy Brady uses credibility, examples, and sarcasm to support her claim that women are extremely important in society and deserve to have equal rights with men. In most works of literature, authors attempt to gain credibility in the beginning to further the audience's trust in what is being said. Judy follows this same technique by explaining, “ I belong to that classification of people known as wives, I am A Wife.”(Brady 229) While a short statement, if one considers that this entire passage is about the duties of a wife and their importance then this statement gives infinite amount of credibility. Judy clearly knows what she is talking about because she lives it every day. Of course she generalizes what wives do, but doubtfully does all the actions she states herself. Still, this one statement gives Judy the credibility needed in order to make the rest of the paper effective and believable.

Numerous examples like these are given throughout the paper to provide evidence of the claim. Judy is attempting to prove to here audience that wives are already burdened with large amounts of chores and responsibilities, sometimes more so then the husbands. With this in mind, she is hoping that the readers will be moved by her logic that if women already have more or equal responsibilities as men than they deserve equal