Performativitas Identitas Gender dan Seksualitas pada Weblog Lesbian di Indonesia

• Main Authors: , Ari Setyorini, SS, , Dr. Ratna Noviani, SIP., M.Si.
• Format: Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed
• Published: [Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada 2011
• Subjects: ETD
• Online Access: https://repository.ugm.ac.id/88690/; http://etd.ugm.ac.id/index.php?mod=penelitian_detail&sub=PenelitianDetail&act=view&typ=html&buku_id=50817
• Institution: Universitas Gadjah Mada

This study is aimed to know how identity of gender and sexuality are performed in lesbian weblog in Indonesia. This research is particularly purposed to identify the ideological meaning behind the performative identity of lesbian blogger, and also to measure hir resistance against subordination. This research takes two weblogs as the corpus of the study namely Fried Durian and Rahasia Bulan. While the analyzed chosen posts are those which contain the issues of gender and sexuality. This study is a multidisciplinary-based qualitative research which is applying Norman Fairclough's critical discourse analysis. It employs three dimensions of analysis. First is the description, in which language becomes the unit of analysis. Here, theory of performativity is used to reveal how language performs the identity of gender and sexuality. Next stage is the interpretation, in which texts are associated with social contexts. This interpretation is sharpened with Foucault's ideas about power relation which elaborated in History of Sexuality. Last is the explanation, in which Foucault's theory of power and knowledge and technology of self applied to sharpen the analysis. The result of the research confirms that identification of gender and lesbian sexuality tends to be the combination of femininity and masculinity. Through the process of criss-crossing, lesbian performs hirself by doing "stage performativity", embedding the identification of feminine and masculine identity through appearance, clothing, gesture, and sexuality. Lesbian in social context still burdens hir social body as a female. Female identity as a mother and a wife cannot make a lesbian stays away from the demand of reproduction and femininity �the discourse produced by the regime of power. In fact, a lesbian blogger is a creative producer in which (s)he transforms the heteronormative discourse.