Abstract
There is little research on gender-related children's picture books in Indonesia. In this article, we discuss the disclosure of gender representation in a picture book entitled Perpustakaan Intan. The high number appearances of women, the actions pinned on women, and the clothes displayed in both text and images are materials for visualizing women and men. Previous studies have revealed that men dominate the number of appearances in books. However, this book displays women more often than men. On the one hand, this raises the question of whether this means women are in power, and on the other hand, men are portrayed as powerless. Utilizing the multimodality approach, the results show that although women appear more in the narrative, women are still represented as less powerful.
Highlights
Picture books apparently make use of multiple semiotic resources (Eisenmann &Summer, 2020; Sunderland & Mcglashan, 2013)
We find no recorded data found on when Indonesian picture books started to fill the shelves of both bookshops and libraries nationwide
Reading the obvious and subtle elements of the power and representation embedded in the women and men in the picture book, we conclude that the power of women in the book - either Intan or her mother is hesitantly accentuated
Summary
Picture books apparently make use of multiple semiotic resources (Eisenmann &Summer, 2020; Sunderland & Mcglashan, 2013). Picture books have been produced abundantly worldwide. Indonesian children picture books presumably have just been widely produced in the last two decades. Long before, imported children picture books, mainly are from Disney, and colorful image-containing magazines were more dominant. Among hundreds of picture books produced recently, as we checked the total number of them in provincial central library of East Java in 2019 randomly, only few of them are about women and education. It approximately is of 7.5% out of 500 picture books’ titles found in the East Java provincial library. One book that suits to these criteria and allegedly is conceiving gender awareness is Perpustakaan Intan (Intan’s Library)
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