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politics field, they are still considered to be unimportant just because of the way they use language.
5. The Explanation of the Subject; The Iron Lady Movie
The Iron Lady movie is a biographical movie. This movie tells the life of a woman named is Margaret Thatcher who fought very hard to
reach her position in parliament. In order to achieve her goals, Margaret got various challenges and obstacles, one of which is gender
discrimination. In the very beginning, the struggle of Margaret Thatcher was not
well received by the public of her Country. People’s rejections occur because, at that time, people still think that women’s duty in the ‘kitchen.’
However, Margaret Thatcher is a strong woman, due to all her hard work and struggle; she finally managed to sit on the benches of parliament.
After she becomes a prime minister of Britain, Margaret Thatcher still must confront all forms of reaction emanated both from society and other
Member of Parliament against all her wisdom and political decisions. This is a very inspiring movie. In addition, this movie can also be a
lesson to continue to fight and work hard for the sake of the country. By watching this movie, someone’s nationality is considering increasingly
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fought and have good competition with men in the political field.
B. Theoretical Framework
This research provides some theories to support the analysis and to answer the two questions presented in the questions formulation in the first
chapter. They are; theory of Post-feminism and Post-feminist Characteristics, Social Reaction Theory, and Language and Gender
Theory. The first is the theory of Post-feminism and Post-feminist
Characteristics. Those theories are used to answer the first research questions, which is to identify how Margaret Thatcher is being presented
in The Iron Lady movie. In addition, this theory will help the researcher to find out whether Margaret Thatcher represents any post-feminism ideology
in the way she interacts with other genders or not. The theory of Post- feminist characteristics is used to find out what sort of character Margaret
Thatcher is. The second is the theory of social reaction and theory of language
and gender. In this research, the researcher uses the theory of social reaction to finding out the pro and contra-reactions on the political
decisions’ of Margaret Thatcher during her political career. The theory of language and gender is used to find out whether Margaret Thatcher used
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter is divided into six parts. The first part is research method. This section explains the type of research chosen. The second part
is research setting. The third part is the data source. The fourth is instruments and data gathering techniques. This section describes kinds of
instruments being used in this research. The fifth is data analyzing technique. The section describes how the findings are analyzed. The last
part is research procedure that explains the steps of the research.
A. Research Method
This is a document analysis, since some of the researchers, such as Ary, Jacobs, and Razavieh 2002, p. 442 define document analysis as a
research method applied to written or visual material for the purpose of identifying specified characteristic of materials. Ripley and Flick 2007
state that, “analyzing conversation has a long tradition in the history of qualitative research.” The material was usually in the form of scripts,
textbooks, advertisement, and any other types of document. The data of this research were found in The Iron Lady
movie’s script that contained the conversation of the characters. The data were analyzed based on
Brook’s theory about post-feminism.
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