CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
1. Feminism
As the writer explained before, the woman character as the main character in “Miss Austen Regrets” film using feminism theory. In this chapter,
the writer discusses that feminism tells about women idea toward her rights, equality, position and status between men and women in many life aspects, like
social area, politics, education, and economics. Feminism theory studies about oppression aspects of women to the men itself. Feminism word was introduces in
the year 1890. Feminism term often presented prejudice, stigma, and stereotype because of lack of understanding in the real meaning of feminism. The ability of
women to establish their career potency and intellectual between men and women are equivalent.
The word ‘feminism’ itself either originated from the French word feminisme in the nineteenth century, as a medical term to describe the
feminization of a male body or described women with masculine traits.
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Based on theory of feminism from movement liberation of women that the research can
focus at position and role of women character literature. A woman to left behind
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Jane Pilcher and Imelda Whelehan. Fifty Key Concepts in Gender Studies. 2004 London: SAGE Publications Ltd. 2004. P.48
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all life aspect was including social activity and education. To pay attention the factor of reader literature, mostly tells about the reader comments toward women
emancipation’s in literature. That feminism movement begins from an idea, which among form of disclosure toward oppression ideology in the name of gender, the
search about the women oppression grew and it was meant to tell about the creation of liberation was true. There was matter which researcher takes away
from feminism theory that was liberal feminism.
Feminism is the idea that women should have political, social, sexual, intellectual and economic rights equal to those of men. It involves various
movements, theories, and philosophies, all concerned with issues of gender difference, that advocate equality for women and the campaign for womens rights
and interests. The history of feminism can be divided into three waves. The first wave was in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The second was in the
1960s and 1970s, and the third extends from the 1990s to the present. Feminist theory emerged from these feminist movements. It is manifest in a variety of
disciplines such as feminist geography, feminist history and feminist literary criticism.
The writer researches feminism, which is in the first wave feminism refers to a period of feminist activity during the nineteenth century and early
twentieth century; it focused on the promotion of equal contract and property
rights for women and the opposition to chattel marriage and ownership of married women by their husbands. However, by the end of the nineteenth century,
activism focused primarily on gaining political power, particularly the right of womens suffrage.
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Several of women have opportunities to live free from fear and enjoy feeling any types of love, especially when they were married without
choice in childhood and have not recourse from bad marriage
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Feminism tells about a main problem of feminism and its relevance explained feminism was an unconsciousness of women oppression and
exploitation in the society whether in public sphere work or private sphere family and a conscious conduct by women or men to change it.
2. Liberal Feminism
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