Gender Inequality in Japanese Fairy Tales with Female Main Character

Fajria Noviana,B. Warsito,Sudarno Sudarno,T. Triadi Putranto

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202020207053

Abstract

Gender at root is a system of inequality that is founded on cultural beliefs about status differences between men and women. Women usually became the one who are disadvantaged in a relatively similar-situated men. This paper discusses the gender inequality upon women that can be found in Japanese fairy tales that have female main character entitled Kaguyahime and Tsuru no Ongaeshi. Fairy tales chosen as the object of this study because as a traditional story that is told from generation to generation, fairy tales are able to absorb aspects of life found in the supporting community groups, both in the form of social problems, ethics, and others. The results of feminist literary criticism on the object f this study are that both of the fairy tales has four forms of the gender inequality acts toward women, which are marginalization, subordination, stereotyping, and gender-related violence; and none of them has the double workload form. This could be due to the fact that when this fairy tale made, there were none of any women’s activities are performed in the public sphere, as well as being a housewife in their domestic sphere.

Highlights

Anthony Giddens and William Sewell have stated that all sorts of social structures have an inherent dual nature
Have the same title, this paper focused on the gender inequalities upon women found in Kaguyahime and Tsuru no Ongaeshi fairy tales, not the comic book version
Data collected in the form of events that related to gender inequalities in the research corpus, which are two Japanese fairy tales entitled Kaguyahime [6] and Tsuru no Ongaeshi [7]

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Introduction

Anthony Giddens and William Sewell have stated that all sorts of social structures have an inherent dual nature. It consists of the implicit rules or cultural schemas by which people set the structure. Material distributions of behaviors, resources, and power that result by which of the observable [1]. For example is the structure of typical classroom. It consists of the cultural concepts or rules that followed by students and teachers to shape their behavior toward one another. The observable distributions between students and teachers of behaviors, power, and resources that emerge from their actions

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