DOMINASI PATRIARKAL DALAM NOVEL GRAFIS BRODERIES KARYA MARJANE SATRAPI

• Main Author: NIAGARA, DUTA PUTRA
• Format: Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed
• Published: [Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada 2013
• Subjects: Literary Studies
• Online Access: https://repository.ugm.ac.id/123782/; http://etd.ugm.ac.id/index.php?mod=penelitian_detail&sub=PenelitianDetail&act=view&typ=html&buku_id=63896
• Institution: Universitas Gadjah Mada

The graphic novel Broderies written in 2003 by Marjane Satrapi is the material object of this thesis. This graphic novel tells stories of its female characters chattering while enjoying tea after lunch. They share personal stories about marriage, sex, virginity, affair, to those related to sexual organs. Various kinds of patriarchal domination are experienced by these woman characters along their lives such as forced marriage, restriction of mobility, and limited access to certain knowledge and opportunity of self-improvement. Reading the graphic novel is the first step of the analysis. Afterwards, categorizing each story told by the female characters by applying the category offered by Kamla Bhasin about sectors of women's life which lied under control of men in order to reveal the various kinds of patriarchal domination. Besides, it is also done the interpretation of female characters responses against patriarchal domination practices that they receive. This research reveals the fact that women's sexuality is the sector in which most patriarchal pressures are being exercised. Moreover, it is also found a fact how women have control as well upon men through the obscure ways they take in order to survive and live comfortably under the implementation of patriarchal values.