dominance. The novel reveals many things about women In Saudi Arabia and the discrimination that they experienced, it also shows how they are struggling to get
their freedom without leaving their religious values.
B. Approach of the Study
The approach that is used in order to analyze this study is feminist approach. The study focuses on the struggle of women who live in a patriarchal
society, so the writer uses the feminist point of view in order to analyze the women struggle.
Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace in Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary explains that feminist implies an intellectual commitment to achieving gender, class,
and racial equality, and it often see all aspects of culture, especially literature as the site to transfer the ideas and as a means of eventual change 2009: vii.
In Women: A Feminist Perspective, Jo Freeman said that feminist perspective starts from the premise that women and men are constitutionally equal.
They share the same human capabilities and that is why it demands a critical analysis of the social institutions that cause the inequality 1984: 553.
In conclusion, feminists, who see women as a significant human being compared to men, think that it is not fair that life is dominated by men, while
women are only the insignificant Other . That is why the feminists fight for equality between men and women. The aim of the study is to see the struggle of
women towards gender discrimination in order to get the equality. Thus, the feminist approach is the most appropriate approach to be used in this study.
C. Method of the Study
The method that is used by the writer in this undergraduate thesis is the library research. The writer uses sources from both books and Internet. The writer
only uses reliable sources from Internet to support the study. The primary source of the study is Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Al-Sanea.
The second sources of the study are from books and Internet. For this thesis, the writer used A Glossary of Literary Terms by Abrams, Bresslers s An
Introduction to Literary Criticism, Understanding Unseens by Murphy, Maggie Humm s Feminism, A Reader, Deborah L. Madsen s Feminist Theory and Literary
Practice, and some other books to find related information on discrimination and women s rights in Saudi Arabia.
In conducting this research, the writer used several steps. The first is by reading the novel and understanding the content. The writer focuses on the two
major characters in order to analyze the struggle of women toward gender discrimination. After reading and understanding the novel, the writer formulated
some problem formulations that can be used as the writing guidelines. The second step was finding and understanding a theory on
characterization to be applied in the study. This theory was used by the writer to analyze further the character in the novel in order to answer the first problem
formulation. The third step was by studying the theory of feminism. The feminism
theory was used by the writer to analyze the idea of feminism which was seen in the
struggle of the women as objects in the conservative patriarchal society where men are dominating.
The theory of the relation of literature and society also added by the writer in order to understand the function of literature and its significant related to society.
The writer also studying about the gender discrimination and women s rights in Saudi Arabia in order to find more information related to the discrimination
experienced by women in Saudi Arabia and their limitation of human rights. The fourth step was by making an analysis based on the understanding of
the novel to reveal the struggle of women who have to face the fact that there is no equality between men and women in the patriarchal society in Saudi Arabia to
finally reveal the struggle of women. The last step is to make a conclusion based on the analysis that has been done.
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