idea of masculinity that attached within the system are fully shaped and reshaped by men. Bailey, 2014: 4 The continue o
f men‟s dominant over women in the society becomes the legitimation that shift the culture in corporate, political, and
economic power. However, Connell also argues that while men continue to dominate
corporate,political and economic power, there has been a seismic shift in culture: „what hascrumbled, in the industrial countries, is the legitimation
of patriarchy. Bailey, 2014: 4 The notion of masculinity is opposed by women thus they put all the
blames “the perpetuation of sexism” Hooks, 2004: 2 only to men so these women can express their feelings and thoughts and maintain it. This kind of
condition leads to the allegiance to patriarchy system, their lust of power driven to oppress the other and causes gender oppression.
3. Multicultural Feminism
Multicultural feminists emphasized the understanding and notion of diversity within society. The notion of diversity has been a complex idea since
there were many differences in culture, race, and gender that contribute various of different thought and personality development of human being.
Multicultural, global, and postcolonial feminists push feminist thought in the direction of both recognizing women‟s diversity and acknowledging
the challenges it presents. Tong, 2009: 200
Based on the differences, people treat another people with their way of thinking in the various representation of cultural norms, traditions or system, and
gender representation. Those various representation unveiled the system of patriarchy which led to gender oppression.
Multicultural feminist was set to defend the oppressed and to redeem the fragile condition within the conflict of social construct of patriarchy system, this
kind of criticism recognized the differences and the diversity by respecting all the races and social elements to live in harmony through differences of many levels.
Defenders of multiculturalism claimed that “we should learn to think of our society as consisting not of a majority and minorities but of a
plurality of cultural groups. We do not all have to look, act, speak, and think alike to be American, they said. Instead, we need to cultivate mutual
tolerance, respect, and knowledge of each other‟s cultures. Tong, 2009: 204
The oppression is one of the tools in patriarchal practices that regenerating the system of subjugation within the society, therefore it holds the continueity of\
terror toward those who begins to revolt against the oppressor thus could not be elimanated before the elimanation of the others, it meant that the oppression that
heads temporaly from the oppressor was cut off from their role towards their subject.
Oppression is a many-headed beast capable of regenerating any one of the heads temporaly severed from its bloated body. The whole body of the
beast is the appropriate target for those who wish to end oppression‟s reign
of terror. Tong, 2009: 206 Multicultural feminist, AudreLorde stated that she rejected all kinds of
oppressor by considering the essential meaning of being different to be unique rather than superior and inferior
while “the oppressors stabilized their position and eluded the given task for their own actions, there‟s a decreased energy which was
used in reassigning women and contriving the realistic idea and movement” Tong, 2009: 209 for another alternative to the better life development in the
present and building the new future.
Lorde‟s point of view concluded the notion which taken very well, women derived the feminist movement by approaching another women‟s experience, in
another words, women learned each other to achieve their rights, through the togetherness of friendship. The experience with the others connected with
essentialism of being unique rather than different in the term of inferior Tong, 2009: 207
Following the expalantion about the diversity of race and culture within the society, the multicultural feminist stated that race was typically consctructed
and deconstructed in social, when it turns out to be like this, the individuals would choose their race depending on their own priorities which given them a lot of
values where they live it.
4. Global and Postcolonial Feminism
Global and Postcolonial feminists explored the relationships between first world nation and third world party that motivated and reduced women movement
in the third world. Through that relationship, the feminists tended to set their focus and interest toward the issues of sexuality, reproduction, economic and
political aspects, thus the feminist movement was often considered as a dynamic rather than static school of thought.
The right of women to freedom of choice, and the power to control our own lives within and outside of the home. Having control over our lives
and our bodies is essential to ensure a sense of dignity and autonomy for every woman. Tong, 2009: 216
The quotation above is one of the goal that the feminist has been trying to embrace, by relating the issues that emerged from the social construct, piece by
