Table 2: The Example of the Data List No Page
Data Category
Sub-Category
1. 23
‘You come on like Miss Smarty Pants but I SAY
YOU’RE THICK,’ said Dad, jabbing me in the
back at every word. Violence
Psychological Violence
16. 59
‘Beauty’s not wearing jeans to a party,’ said
Dad.
‘No, she’ll wear her little pink number.’
Subordination Women Ways of
Dressing were Determined
E. Data Analysis Technique
The method used to analyze the data in this research is content analysis methods since this research deals with text related to particular issue. Therefore,
interpretation becomes very substantial to analyze the topic in the research. Hsieh and Shannon 2005 explain that content analysis deals with interpretation that is really
subjective about particular text through systematic classification processes. The interpretations about the issues were subjective because every people have different
background and knowledge. Therefore, to get a better interpretation about the data, the data were classified systematically based on the objectives.
After the researcher classified the data based on the objectives, the data were interpreted by the researcher in order to get new understanding about the objectives.
The data which were in the form of words, clauses, phrases and sentences related to
Beauty’s struggles against gender discrimination in patriarchal society in Wilson’s Cookie were interpreted based on the objectives of the research. The researcher did
several steps to analyze the data as presented below: 1.
First, the researcher read and re-read line by line Wilson’s Cookie novel to get comprehensive understanding about the issue;
2. Second, the researcher identified the data by highlighting and note taking the
important words, clauses, phrases and sentences related to Beauty’s struggle against gender discrimination in patriarchal society;
3. Third, the researcher categorized the significant expression in the form of
words, clauses, phrases and sentences based on the objectives of the research; 4.
Fourth, the researcher classified the significant expression of words, clauses, phrases and sentences which have related ideas based on the category in each
objective; 5.
Fifth, the researcher sorted the data to get more relevant data in the classification and excluded the irrelevant data;
6. Sixth, the researcher interpreted and analyzed the data and relate it to the
theories used in the research to get the findings based on the categories of the research objectives;
7. Seventh, the researcher implemented data trustworthiness by doing
triangulation.
F. Data Trustworthiness
