KUASA PEREMPUAN PENJAJA SEKS: Kajian Kritis Etnografi Feminis terhadap Relasi Kuasa Perempuan Penjaja Seks di Madiun

• Main Authors: SILVIANA, IKA, PARTINI, PARTINI
• Format: Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed
• Published: [Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada 2014
• Subjects: Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Online Access: https://repository.ugm.ac.id/134085/; http://etd.ugm.ac.id/index.php?mod=penelitian_detail&sub=PenelitianDetail&act=view&typ=html&buku_id=75069
• Institution: Universitas Gadjah Mada

Prostitution in Madiun is contantly increasing. The rising number of night clubs completed by sexual services strengthens this fact. Local prostitution complex, warung (a small, traditional cafe, usually with one or two sellers only, and no waiters/ waitresses), cafes / karaoke spots, and boarding houses are other places where prostitution happens. Often, female sexuality is positioned as lyan, based on pallusentris dichotomy of which females body is constructed as a complement of, a servant for, and an agent of males sexual desire fulfillment. This female sexual worker (PPS) phenomenon represents females with double oppresion, as females and as whores. However, it is interesting that more females choose to be PPS. Thus, from this background, an inquiry is risen: How is the performatifity of power relation of female sexual workers in Madiun? Power strategies by which the PPS operated were examined by feminist perspective and Michel Foucaults bio-technico-power concepts, the body discipline mechanism until compose the strategy in order to constructed the actively power relation. The analysis on the PPS was presented in a power arrangement which controled over both an individu and a group of people by employing feminist ethnographical approach. Through this approach, to document the lives and activities of female, to understand the experience of female from their own point of view, and to conceptualize females behavior as an expression of social contexts. This study attempt to understand PPSs experience when starting prostitute up to their selfpractice in prostitution space. That experience led to criticism of the domestic sphere that became the main domestic reservoir of the dehumanization of women's issues. Factually given, domesticity tended to discredit women through the institution of family and became the most cruel impri sonment for women. In this space is female in domination, exploitation and discrimination boundary are constructed through patriarchal nature obey and serve, so it is difficult for women to negotiate a position themselves. The will and desire of women manipulated by very powerful and reinforces women as objects of patriarchy (male). But in the other room (prostitution), which is constructed as harsh in public spaces, it is able to accommodate women's freedom and ability to negotiate raises effective for women. In this space the women (PPS) is able to have control over their own bodies through the disciplinary process, and be able to negotiate the power relations by utilizing knowledge. This is where the births of women as object and active subject who is able to exert control over her body to be self useful, especially for himself and for the environment in general, so as to create mutual power relations in every area of women.