Feminism and the Literature of Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Feminism refers to the social ideological trends that women ask for equal rights as well as the results of ideology when women know the world, the ego, and the sexual relationship in their process of seeking self-liberation. This paper starts with describing the periods in which Indonesian women ack...

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Main Author: Cendrawaty Tjong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Bina Nusantara University 2013-05-01
Series:Lingua Cultura
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Online Access:https://journal.binus.ac.id/index.php/Lingua/article/view/414
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description Feminism refers to the social ideological trends that women ask for equal rights as well as the results of ideology when women know the world, the ego, and the sexual relationship in their process of seeking self-liberation. This paper starts with describing the periods in which Indonesian women acknowledged and was associated with western feminism as well as analyzing its period of development. This paper aims at researching the feminism idelology of Pramoedya Ananta Toer, a leading Indonesian writer, including the factors which affect his opinion on women and the expression of his feminism, which is richly displayed throughout his works. The finding of this research shows that in Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s perspective, equality between men and women is manifested in the partnership between men and women, that this partnership is applied in every aspect of lives, which is advanced-throught in Indonesian’s patriarchal society.
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spelling doaj.art-b69f6510f5924fe2b8f77507f3afd29f2022-12-21T22:26:22ZengBina Nusantara UniversityLingua Cultura1978-81182460-710X2013-05-0171243510.21512/lc.v7i1.414404Feminism and the Literature of Pramoedya Ananta ToerCendrawaty Tjong0Chinese Department, Faculty of Humanities, Bina Nusantara University Jln. Kemanggisan Ilir III No. 45, Kemanggisan – Palmerah, Jakarta 11480Feminism refers to the social ideological trends that women ask for equal rights as well as the results of ideology when women know the world, the ego, and the sexual relationship in their process of seeking self-liberation. This paper starts with describing the periods in which Indonesian women acknowledged and was associated with western feminism as well as analyzing its period of development. This paper aims at researching the feminism idelology of Pramoedya Ananta Toer, a leading Indonesian writer, including the factors which affect his opinion on women and the expression of his feminism, which is richly displayed throughout his works. The finding of this research shows that in Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s perspective, equality between men and women is manifested in the partnership between men and women, that this partnership is applied in every aspect of lives, which is advanced-throught in Indonesian’s patriarchal society.https://journal.binus.ac.id/index.php/Lingua/article/view/414feminism, women movement, Indonesian, Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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title Feminism and the Literature of Pramoedya Ananta Toer
title_full Feminism and the Literature of Pramoedya Ananta Toer
title_fullStr Feminism and the Literature of Pramoedya Ananta Toer
title_full_unstemmed Feminism and the Literature of Pramoedya Ananta Toer
title_short Feminism and the Literature of Pramoedya Ananta Toer
title_sort feminism and the literature of pramoedya ananta toer
topic feminism, women movement, Indonesian, Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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