DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN IN FATIMA MERNISSI'S DREAMS OF TRESPASS TALES OF A HAREM GIRLHOOD (1994): A FEMINIST APPROACH

• Main Author: KHASANAH, KHIKMAHTUN (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: 2011.
• Subjects: Thesis; NonPeerReviewed
• Online Access: Connect to this object online
• Notes: https://eprints.ums.ac.id/13819/1/COVER-DEDICATION.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/13819/2/CHAPTER_I.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/13819/3/CHAPTER_II.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/13819/5/CHAPTER_III.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/13819/7/CHAPTER_IV.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/13819/8/CHAPTER_V.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/13819/10/CHAPTER_VI.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/13819/13/BIBLIOGRAPHY.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/13819/15/APPENDIX.pdf
• Keywords: PN Literature (General)

This research paper elaborates the discrimination against women in Fatima Mernissi's Dreams of Trespass: Tales of A Harem Girlhood novel that is analyzed through feminist approach. The objectives of the research are to analyze the structural elements of the novel and to analyze the novel based on feminist approach. This research belongs to a descriptive qualitative research. The data of the research is the novel entitled Dreams of Trespass: Tales of A Harem Girlhood. Whereas the data source comes from both primary data source which is in the form of the text of the novel being researched and secondary data source that relate the primary data source, such as books, and websites. The method to analyze the data is descriptive analysis. Based on the analysis toward the novel, the writer concludes that the discrimination against women is shown by the structural elements which build the novel such as characters, setting, plot, and theme. All elements of the novel support the theme built by the writer that is discrimination against women. From feminist analysis the discrimination against women can be seen from the discrimination of women's right, women's position, women's role, and women's participation that appear in the novel.