24 barriers of gender and class in a male-dominated world; the spirited wife
and mother who longed to change her country for the better. The researcher chose this movie because of some criteria that the
researcher needed to be analyzed. Some of those criteria are; the character has applies post-feminism theory in the way she interacts with other
gender in the movie, the character also has social interaction with various social status, the character’s ideology of life, and the movie also represents
social reaction.
D. Research Instruments and Data Gathering Technique
In this research, there were two instruments used by the researcher. Those instruments are human instrument and document. “The human
instrument has the unique capability of summarizing data on the spot and feeding it back to an informant for clarification, correction, and
amplification. Moreover, human instrument is the main instrument for gathering the data from the documents”. Lincoln Guba, 1985, p.194.
The other instrument was the document. This instrument can help the researcher in doing the research; it can be similar to the sources’
books. The researcher made an observation on the script in order to accomplish the research questions. After gathering the data needed, the
data would be presented in the analysis. Documents can be a personal document, such as diaries, files, or books Ary, Jacobs, and Rasavieh,
2002. In this research, the researcher employed the script of The Iron PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
25 Lady movie to colle
ct the data from Margaret Thatcher’s language and actions. The movie’s transcript consisted of 96 pages and was taken from
http:goodinaroom.comwp-contentuploadsIron-Lady-screenplay.pdf. The script that was found and the dialogue in the movie transcript were not
as much as the dialogue in the movie. That is why the researcher combined both the script and the movie
’s subtitle when gathering the data needed. However, most of the data were taken from the movie’s transcript.
The researcher selected the language of Margaret Thatcher that will be used to find out the answer of the first research question. However, for
the answer of the second research question, the researcher selected all the reactions of people around to her political decision; both in the form of
actions and words. Besides the used of human instrument and document, the researcher also used checklist and table in order to categorize the data
needed.
E. Data Analysis Technique
The data collected in this research were analyzed to answer the questions formulation. The first research question in this research was to
present the post- feminism’s ideology through Margaret Thatcher’s
interaction with another gender. The language used and the action done by the character will be classified based on Braithwait
e’s theory of post-
feminist characteristics. Those characteristics are; General rejection to
