Kurniawati, Ika (2007) Women’s Struggle Against The Patriarchal Chinese Family in Pearl S. Buck’s Pavilion of Women. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim.
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Abstract
ABSTRACT
Patriarchy is the system where men dominated all of aspects of life. So, there is an inequality and unfair treatment between men and women and men have more power to dominate, exploit, determine and control females. We often find this gender discrimination in literary works because literature is a product of culture and becomes a media of transferring values to the society which includes feminism.
Based on the background of study above, the problems of this thesis are: what are the aspects of patriarchal Chinese family faced by female characters in Pearl S. Buck’s Pavilion of Women and what are the struggles of female characters against the patriarchal Chinese family in Pearl S. Buck’s Pavilion of Women.
In this research, the writer used literary criticism as her research design to conduct the study because literary criticism is the only research design that is directly related to the literary works.
From analyzing the novel, the writer found many aspects of patriarchal Chinese family in Pearl S. Buck’s Pavilion of Women. Those are: (1) Foot Binding, (2) Marriage Matching, (3) Physical Violence, (4) Women’s Subordination in Sexuality, (5) Exploiting the Wife to Be Responsible for Household, (6) Female’s dependency vs. Male’s Independency, (7) Female Infant Discrimination, (8) Husband relationships with Prostitute, (9) Polygamy, (10) Discrimination against Women in Education, (11) Women as a Reproductive Machine
The writer also found the struggles that are done by some female characters against patriarchal Chinese family in this novel. Those are: (1) Demonstration against Polygamy, (2) Abandoning from Serving Husband and Doing Household, (3) Demanding to Choose the Marriage Partner Freely, (4) Struggle for freedom in Family, (5) Struggle against Women’s Oppression, (6) Struggle for accessing Education.
This research is aimed at enriching the theoretical basis of literary studies, especially those are related to the feminist literary criticism and expected to be the alternative information for other researcher in conducting the similar research.
Item Type: | Thesis (Undergraduate) | ||||||
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Supervisor: | Istiadah, Istiadah | ||||||
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Keywords: | Feminism; Feminist literary criticism; Patriarchy; Patriarchal family | ||||||
Departement: | Fakultas Humaniora > Jurusan Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris | ||||||
Depositing User: | Moch. Nanda Indra Lexmana | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 18 Jan 2023 14:58 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2023 14:58 | ||||||
URI: | http://etheses.uin-malang.ac.id/id/eprint/44455 |
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