I Want A Wife, By Judy Brady

In the essay, “I Want a Wife,” Judy Brady discusses how society tends to be chauvinistic and discriminatory toward women. She writes to women to help them awaken from the melancholy reality of oppression society allows. Brady asserts that women must be approached without any sort of sexist stereotype, and she supports her claim by establishing who she is and where she stands as a woman, by categorizing all expectations society has on wives, and by asking a question with sarcasm. Brady begins her argument by introducing herself as a wife and mother that also suffers from the situation of being immersed in inequality. She narrates her own personal experience which creates credibility when she says, “I belong to the classification of people known