Hello, I am looking for someone to write an essay on Analysis the many meanings of marriages relate to gender and femininity. It needs to be at least 1250 words.It is now a more complex but a healthy

Hello, I am looking for someone to write an essay on Analysis the many meanings of marriages relate to gender and femininity. It needs to be at least 1250 words.

It is now a more complex but a healthy bond between two equal partners who decide to share responsibilities and liabilities together. The idea of traditional femininity is denounced by the author who redefines it based on the data received from sociological and psychological studies made in the past few decades. This essay thus, will analyze how the author defies the concept of traditional femininity and draws a picture of a 21st century woman who is strong, self-sufficient, bold and as much feminine as a woman can be. It will further focus on how this new feminine woman is changing the face of a successful marriage.

Traditionally, as rightly pointed out by Coontz, femininity has always been associated with being meek, helpless, and dumb. The process of socialization, even in1950s, was such that women were tuned to be the weaker sex from an early age. Teenage girls were advised to maintain a list of likes and dislikes of boys to be successfully able to "catch and keep" (281) one. This points to the fact that the process of socialization began early in a girls life with her being taught to look beautifully dumb and by the time she reached the stage of adulthood, she had become adept in maintaining the facade of being the less intelligent. As mentioned in the text, Psychologist Clifford Adams points in his Journals how a wife saved her marriage by pretending dumb and losing card games to her husband. According to Clifford, the lady invented troubles to make her husband feel "needed" (Coontz 282). This strengthens the idea that many women in the past maintained a "facade" of being less intelligent than their husband to secure their marriage.

Being less intelligent than ones husband was indeed considered to be a key factor for a successful marriage and advice books, which Coontz vehemently criticizes in her essay, promoted these ideas further. It is interesting to note that in reality, the woman