Against Gender Discrimination In Tracie Peterson And Judith Miller's Novel A Tapestry Of Hope (2004): Feminist Approach

• Main Authors: Muaddatunikmah, Nur (Author), , Drs. M. Thoyibi, M.S (Author), , Titis Setyabudi, S.S., M.Hum (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: 2013.
• Subjects: Thesis; NonPeerReviewed
• Online Access: Connect to this object online
• Notes: https://eprints.ums.ac.id/23246/14/02._Publication_Article.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/23246/1/03._Cover.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/23246/2/04._CHAPTER_I.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/23246/3/05._CHAPTER_II.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/23246/4/06._CHAPTER_III.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/23246/7/07._CHAPTER_IV.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/23246/8/08._CHAPTER_V.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/23246/10/09._CHAPTER_VI.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/23246/11/10._Bibliography.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/23246/12/11._Appendix.pdf
• Keywords: PN Literature (General)

The object of the study is a novel entitled A Tapestry of Hope written by Tracie Peterson and Judith Miller that is published in 2004. The study is to analyze how women discrimination is reflected in A Tapestry of Hope novel. The objective of the study is to analyze the structural elements in the novel and to analyze women discrimination of this novel using feminist approach. The writer uses the descriptive qualitative research as a type of the research. The data sources are divided into two, namely primary data source and secondary data source. The primary data sources of the study are Tracie Peterson and Judith Miller's Tapestry of Hope novel and its translation by Yeri Ekomunajat. The secondary data sources are books and other sources, such as the biography of the author, the websites on the internet that support the analysis. The method of collecting data is library research and the technique of analyzing data is classifying the obtained data by selecting the necessary ones. Then, analyzing data based on Feminist theory. The results of the study are as follows. First, based on the structural analysis, the authors deliver that women in that time (19th century) are still being discriminated. The structural elements are related each other and form a unity. Second, based on the feminist analysis, the authors reflect gender discrimination in the society that places women as subordinate and most of them are enslaved.