Background of the Study

marriage had no control of her property or her children. Her status was akin to that o f a minor or slave.” Thus after a lot of discrimination, women begin to start their movements to fight back the men’s domination over everything; they fight for their right, and try to bring back their dignity and also their role in daily life. One of their movements is producing some literary works that show us about their experience and how they solve all the problems that caused by men ’s domination. In this case, literature has a big role as a media to inform and show the struggle of women to reach the gender equality issue and to emphasize their existence in this world. They show and prove that female is reliable in this life and they can change the world with their own power without men domination. In this case, the researcher uses a novel by Alice Nannup entitled When The Pelican Laughed to elaborate more about how women’s being discriminated and suffers from men’s discrimination. According to Marjorie Boulton in The Anatomy of the Novel, the novel is a branch of fiction that developed in late in history but a relish for stories seems to be as recorded humanity Boulton, 1975: 1. Boulton also mentions the definition of novel from Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, ‘Novel is an invented prose narrative that is usually long and complex and deals with human experience through a connected sequence of events’ Boulton, 1975:11. Thus, novel is a form of prose that consist a story which reflects and deals with human’s life experience. Alice Nannup, as an author, writes her own life experience in the form of novel with the help of Lauren Marsh and Stephen Kinnane entitled When The Pelican Laughed. She is an aborigine. She portrayed her whole life since she was a child. She tells us how she was raised by the aborigine family with all the traditions in the aboriginal society. The aborigine was considered as a patriarchal society where the men dominated. This novel takes place in Australia where the aborigines lived under white people ’s domination. Alice is a part of aboriginal society that lives under the white people domination. Besides, she also has to live under men domination and obey men ’s rules in her aborigine society. In her novel she focuses on her struggle against the domination by her surrounding especially from the men which reflects the idea of feminism. The reason why the researcher chose this topic is because we have to revalue women’s contribution to our life and consider once again the important of women’s role in our life, Peter Barry said in Beginning Theory about feminist, so we can have more respect to women and not thinking that woman or female is a second sex. Women need equality in all of aspects, so we have to give them chances to take part in this life and they also have the same right as the men in all aspects of life. The researcher uses the feminist approach in literary work and some theories on feminism to analyze this novel, and focus on Alice Basset as the main female character and also her mother, and her struggle against her own society Aborigine and white people domination in her society. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI

B. Problem Formulation

1. How do women experience the practice of patriarchy in Alice Nannup’s When The Pelican Laughed? 2. What are the responses of women in facing the practice of Patriarchy in their environment in Alice Nannup’s When The Pelican Laughed?

C. Objectives of the Study

The first objective of this study is to see what Alice and other women experience in his life as a woman from aboriginal society and under the white people domination. I want to find out what treatment that she got from her own society whether it is good or not, and also from white people around her that have more power in her environment and reveal whether there is any gender discrimination that given by her from both society or not The second objective is to find out what the responses of Alice and other women are to face all the pressure from both society Aborigine and White. The researcher will reveal whether they fight back or not.

D. Definition of Terms Feminism

According to Peter Barry, Feminism is women ’s movement that struggle over the image of the women Barry, 2002: 121-122. In The Dictionary of Feminist Theory, Feminism is a doctrine of equal rights for women and ideology of social transformation aiming to create a world for women beyond simple social equality. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI Humm, 1995: 94. In general, feminisms is the ideology of women’s liberation since intrinsic in all its approaches is the belief that women suffer injustice because of our sex. Humm, 1995: 94 Patriarchy According to Peter Barry, Patriarchy is cultural thought of men or women in the society about sexual inequality where the men have more power and control the women Barry, 2002: 122. And according to The Dictionary of Feminist Theory, Patriarchy is a system where the men have an authority to control and oppress the women in the society Humm, 1995: 200 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI