Representation of Women’s Struggle in Indonesia Contemporary Novels: Liberal-Feminist Studies

Abstract

This study aimed to describe the form of the struggle of women in Indonesian contemporary novels. To describe the form of the struggle of women in Indonesian contemporary novels, the theory of liberal feminism was being used. This study used a qualitative method of content analysis techniques. Data validation was done by triangulation techniques, which checked the validity of data that take advantage of something else outside of the data. The data of this study were words, phrases, and sentences from the narrator or a character that describe the struggle of women. Source of research data were the text of the novels Para Priyayi by Omar Khayyam, Saman by Ayu Utami, Kitab Omong Kosong by Seno Gumira Adjidarma and Tarian Bumi by Oka Rusmini. Based on the result of the analysis found that the forms of stuggle done by women in the contemproray novel are (1) the struggle to find the equal righs in education and politic, (2) the struggle to be free from patriarchal culture, namely do not regarding man as a strong and a superior man and man have no right to decide a choice.