From the quotation above, we can see that Marxist Feminism theory will reconstruct the slave situation to become a human free.
2.3 Marxist Feminism and Literature
Around the 1960s, feminism developed as par t of the women‘s movement.
It was a movement to fight subordination, marginalization, and oppression from the dominant group, whether in economic, political or social aspects.
Sugihastuti and Sugiharto state that in feminism, women demand equal right with man and the autonomy to make decision for own. Besides that, they are
explained that feminism is political. It changes power relation between male and female in society. http:www.feminism.comfree_literature_tz.htm The power
includes the whole structures of life as family, education culture and power. Feminism has some branches. Since Prabasmoro 2006 said that feminism is like a
woman‘s body, it has no centre. It is not one as it has emerged in many different kinds but there are also similarities among them. Feminist ideology can also be found
in novels. In order to reveal about slavery in literary works, feminism theory can be used. The feminist criticism is a kind of criticism in which the reader observes
literature with special consciousness and realization that gender, culture, and life are related to each others.
Marxist Feminism theory is tells about Power differentials between men and
women are conceptualized in a similar manner. It is considered, for example, that in- creased participation of women in the labor force increase their bargaining power in
relationship to men. Power and prestige or the relative lack there of are thus conceptualized as individual attributes which men and women may be able to modify
to their advantage or disadvantage, and according to which they may be ordered in a continum from powerful to powerless people. Although this type of analysis
accurately reflects the everyday life experience of men and women, it has limited value as a means to understanding the social position of women in capitalist society.
http:www. Civil Liberties.comThe Jewish Question in Marxist Social Thought.htm
In analyzing a work of art we should have a method and theory as a way to analyze it. In a research, object, theory and method developed in a condition that
completes each other. In its appearance view point, it can be definitely determined that the appearance of a method and theory happen after the appearance of the works
of art as an object of a research. Hence, a method or theory including Marxist Feminism theory plays the important role in literature.
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