The gender discrimination on the main character in Souad's Burned Alive

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Syifa Qurrota A'yunin, The Gender Discrimination on The Main Character in
Souad's Burned Alive. A Thesis. Jakarta: English Letter Department, Faculty of Adab
and Humanities, State Islamic University (UIN) Syarif Hidayatullah, December,
2008.

In this research, the writer analyzed a novel entitled Burned Alive, written by a
Palestinian woman, Souad. The research is aimed to examine how Palestinian woman
was presented through the discrimination gender as described in Burned Alive. The
research focuses on two problems: first, How is the main character, Souad described
by the author in her novel? And the second, How did the main character experienced
the gender discrimination to her social life? The novel is carefully and accurately
analyzed using the intrinsic theory of Character and the image of gender
discrimination in Palestine as a response to the research problem. The method that
used in this research is qualitative method.
The research described gender discrimination which emerged from the
patriarchal culture rooted from generation to generation in Palestine. Women were
presented as inferior to men physically and intellectually, so that women were
dominated by men in every aspects of their life. There are five kinds of gender
discrimination described: Marginalization, Subordination, Stereotype, Violence

(against woman physically, and psychology), and Job segregation by sex which is
operated in private and public sphere. Gender discrimination really harms women and
places them as inferior creatures and men as superior one.