Listening to Marginalized Women's Expressions of Anger (A Communication Study on the Use of Women’s Language for Resistance in the Prostitution Boarding Quarter at Sunan Kuning, Semarang)
- DOI
- 10.2991/icse-15.2016.62How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- women’s language; anger; resistance, marginalized women
- Abstract
The study deliberately observes the anger expressions of the neglected marginal group, the female sex workers of Sunan Kuning, a prostitution boarding quarter in Semarang, Indonesia. The marginal nature of the group is also revealed by the fact that there are interests of surrounding parties trying to exert some control over the group. Thus the focal goal is to explain the potency of female sex workers’ expressions of anger for communicating their resistances. The logic the theoretical framework of this research drew on Bourdieu’s thought of masculine domination, and the feminist postmodern of language. A critical ethnography method was employed to reveal the use of anger expression in daily life of marginalized women. The result indicates that women from the marginalized groups are indeed speaks through their anger. As members of the groups however, their voices are barely heard. So, in terms of theoretical implication, this study underpin the notion of how anger is an important expression in women’s language. It also suggests that appreciating women language, particularly those among the marginalize group, should be conducted with sensibly listen to them as we learn their numerous expressions that are commonly neglected because of the fact that those expressions are beyond the dominant languages
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- © 2016, 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/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Hapsari Dwiningtyas Sulistyani PY - 2016/04 DA - 2016/04 TI - Listening to Marginalized Women's Expressions of Anger (A Communication Study on the Use of Women’s Language for Resistance in the Prostitution Boarding Quarter at Sunan Kuning, Semarang) BT - Proceedings of the 1st UPI International Conference on Sociology Education (UPI ICSE 2015) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 291 EP - 294 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icse-15.2016.62 DO - 10.2991/icse-15.2016.62 ID - Sulistyani2016/04 ER -