notes to her husband by snaking when her husband visited her. Finally, her husband gave the notes to mass media. The mass media put news from Alice’s
notes as a headline news. Then they got free from the jail and their cassis of women right to vote was agreed by the government.
What Alice Paul has done can be an issue in the feminism discussion, that interest to discuss so the researcher interest to write about the Alice Paul’s
Character trough the feminism approach. It wills discussed by using the first wave feminist idea that concern on the women’s right that influenced by Mary
Wollstonecraft whose write the book which the title is Vindication of Right of Women.
B. Focus of the research
Based on the background of study above, this research is concern to the Alice Paul’s character in Iron Jawed Angels movie, using feminism theory.
C. Research question
According to focus of the research there are two questions that interesting to find the answer.
1. How is Alice Paul described in Iron Jawed Angel film? 2. What feminist ideas are presented trough Alice Paul in Iron Jawed Angel film?
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D. Significance of the study
By this character analysis in Iron Jawed Angels movie, the researcer hopes this research useful for the reader. The researcher hopes that this research can be a reference
in applying feminism theory in literary research work. It also can give the true and acurate information about the feminism values in the Iron Jawed Angels movie
E . Research Methodology
a. Research method
Since no numeric data this research uses qualitative method with a descriptive analysis. The writer tries to find the answers of the research questions
through data analysis and relating the found data to the character and characterization theory and feminism theory.
b. Technique of data analysis
In this research, the researcher analyzes Alice’s character through the character and characterization, also feminism theory. The datas needed about
Alice’s character are taken from the script of Iron Jawed Angels movie directed by Katja Von Garnier
c. Instrument
In this research, the researcher using herself as the main instrument. By watching Iron Jawed Angel movie and reading the script of Iron Jawed Angel
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movie and mark the important part in the Iron Jawed Angel movie. The researcher tries to find how Alice’s character shown from the feminism values
d. Unit analysis
The unit analysis of the research is the script of Iron Jawed Angels which directed by Katja Von Garnier and Release on May 24, 2004 in
America, HBO company.
e. Place and time of the research
This research began in eight semester academic year 20082010 in Jakarta.
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CHAPTER II
THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK
A. History of Feminism
The word feminism itself originated from the French word” feminine” in the nineteenth century
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. Feminism is a concept of women emancipation that focuses on the women’s societies efforts. In the social concept feminism is a concept of the equality
about men and women in politic, social, economic and education. The belief in the social, economic and political of the sex’s feminism originated.
Largely in the west but it manifested word wide and it represented by various institutions committed to activity on behalf of women’s right and interest
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. Briefly the feminism aim to improve equality of rank and level between men and
women. There are some ways to make that equality, one of the ways is women should get the same right and opportunity that men already get, and this ways known by equal
right’s movement. Another way that make women free from the domestic area such as in the family and in the house. And it called “women’s liberation movement” or women’s lib
or “women’s emancipation movement”
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. Through most of western history, women were confined to the domestic circle,
while public life was reserved for men. In medieval Europe, women were denied the right to own property, to study or to participate in public life. Even in the end of 20
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centuries,
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women in the US could neither vote nor hold elective office. Women were prevented from conducting business without a male representative, be it father, brother, husband,
legal agent or even son. Marriage women could not exercise control over their own children without the permission of their husband. More over women had little or no
access to education and were berried from most profession. In some part of the word, such restrictions on women continue today.
Actually the definition of feminism always changed, and it will be depend on the reality of socio cultural that become the basic of it. And then level of consciousness,
perception and also action that already done by feminist itself. Feminism also called as resurrection that “anti of men” and refuse their destiny as women that already been God’s
will. And they refuse all attributes that make women look so weak, because they do not be given a change to show what they can do and always be underestimated. And it vision
make the women consider as the bad person
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. Feminism to be large and get various movement, philosophy and theories which concerned with the issue of gender difference,
advocate equality for woman and campaign for women’s right and interest. Feminist movement is begun at 1960s, and it had so many impacts for all
American societies and of course for American women. By feminist movement the society aware about the inferiority of women situation. So many great supports to
increase the women’s status from many aspects of society. The movement itself can be divided into three waves.
The first wave feminist movement began in the 19
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centuries; in the mid of nineteen centuries until 1920s become the first wave feminist movement. In the other
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hand the historical term, the first wave of feminist movement was stared in the beginning of nineteenth centuries
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. Originally it focused on the promotion of equal contract and property rights for
women and the opposition to chattel marriage and ownership of married women and their children by their husbands. However, by the end of the nineteenth century, activism
focused primarily on gaining political power, particularly the right of womens suffrage. Yet, feminists such as Voltairine de Cleyre and Margaret Sanger were still active in
campaigning for womens sexual, reproductive, and economic rights at this time
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. In the first feminist movement also concern about the women’s right. More over it has influence
on Mary Wollstonecraft, whose write the book which the title is vindication of right of women, publish in Britain in 1792.
In the middle of 1960 is began of the second wave feminism. This second wave also born by publishing Feminine Mystique which written by Betty Friedan
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. The general aims of the second wave are for making man and women in the same level. And
also to build a body of knowledge, which specifically shows the ways in which women have historically been marginalized, both culturally and sociality.
Feminist saying that the first wave focus on right such as women suffrage, whereas the second wave was largely concerned with other issue of equality, such as
ending of discrimination. Second wave also saw women’s cultural and political
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inequality, also encouraged women to understand the aspect of their live as deeply politicized.
Finally the movement of feminism up into the third waves. It began in the early 1990’s. Third wave feminism had so many definitions, but the best was described in the
most general term as the feminism of a younger generation who acknowledge the second wave legally.
Third feminism focused on “micro politic” and challenges the second wave paradigm. Gender and sexuality were central too much of the third wave’s ideology.
B. Feminist Ideology
