Journal Entry 4

Judy Syfer lists alot of activities that wives do. She says that a wife is there to look after the children ad clean the house and also to please their partner whenever. She makes a wife seem like a personal possesion not a person, an almost robot like machine with no freedom or speech of their own. In the 1970s equality of race and sexuality where being put under the spotlight. Women were looking for equal rights as men in work and society. Before this women were supposed to get married and stay home with the children and take care of the house, while at the same time seeing to the needs of their husbands because they were the providers of the family. Leaving an imprint we stereo-typically think of a wife at first as a person who stays at home but is not actually the case. Most families now have both parents working making their own incomes.

In her writing style she kept repeating the line at each sentence, "I want a wife..". I think that her writing like this gives less personality to a wife and creates them into a possesive object that all men seek. She wasnt say this as a way to appeal to the reader what a good should be what sexist men see wives as. This writing is a form of protest against men and not encourages women to be like this.