Subordination of Javanese Women

Keywords

Javanese culture, women, gender, literature, subordination

Abstract

An important issue that is often discussed is about gender equality. In relation to the issue of gender equality, in society there are many things that can be categorized as a form of gender inequality, namely differences in views about the roles and positions of men and women. It is often found that the role and position of women are considered to be under men. Women are male subordinates. This paper discusses how the views on the role and position of women in Javanese culture. The data used in this study are expressions in Javanese language, Javanese customs, and Javanese literature. This paper also alludes to literature with the consideration that literature reflect society. In other words, to know people's views about something can be seen from the literature. Based on these data, the important thing that was discovered was that in Javanese society there was a view that considered women to be in the subordination of men.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ari Prasetiyo
PY  - 2018/11
DA  - 2018/11
TI  - Subordination of Javanese Women
BT  - Proceedings of the International Seminar on Recent Language, Literature, and Local Cultural Studies (BASA 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 34
EP  - 38
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/25906064
ID  - Prasetiyo2018/11
ER  -