Promoting Gender Equality Values in a Fiction Written by A Lombok Female Writer

Puspita Dewi Puspita Dewi,Dian Eka Sari Dian Eka Sari,Riyana Rizki Yuliatin ,Farida Maricar Farida Maricar,Sulmi Magfirah Sulmi Magfirah

doi:10.32996/ijllt.2021.4.3.2

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Abstract

Plenty of media is used, such as newspapers, magazines, novels, and movies to share information and incorporate some life values, including gender equality values. The collection of short stories entitled NING was written by Irma Argiyanti. She is an active Lombok writer. This research aims to identify the writer's ideology through the artwork (the short story collection). This methodological framework was adopted from Fairclough’s concept of the three-dimensional model, explored gender representation in the short stories, and tried to identify the truth behind the texts' ideology. The results show that the stories represent implicitly and explicitly gender equality values. Therefore, the topics and the stories' flow provide patriarchy, women empowerment, and equality values in the family. Based on the data, there are about 33 words representing women’s names and 19 words of men. Consequently, the short stories pursue the readers to think, elaborate, and accept gender equality values, and it is expected to implement in daily life and change to be a better society.

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1 Various values can be embedded and incorporated through media such as newspapers, magazines, novels, short stories, and other media because media is one way to influence and change people's perspectives and behaviours (Dewi and Magfirah, 2018)
The results show that the stories represent implicitly and explicitly gender equality values
All series were chosen as the corpus of the study. This methodological framework was adopted from Fairclough that is cited from Amerian and Esmaili (2015) taking Fairlough’s concept of the threedimensional model was opted and adopted in conducting the research to elaborate and explore gender representation in short stories and tried to identify the truth of the ideology behind the texts through which gender is described

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1 Various values can be embedded and incorporated through media such as newspapers, magazines, novels, short stories, and other media because media is one way to influence and change people's perspectives and behaviours (Dewi and Magfirah, 2018). Newspaper, poems, novels, and short stories are tools to share information with the readers. Irma is a woman who is active in writing poems, short stories and novels in which her writing published in many newspaper and media such as Kompas, Horison, Media Indonesia, Tempo, Sinar Harapan, Bali Post, Lombok Post, and other media. She joined many literature symposiums; one is the Makassar International Writers Festival. Poems, and short stories, Irma share and communicate with readers

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