Proceedings of the Social Sciences, Humanities and Education Conference (SoSHEC 2019)

Beauty Myth in Novels by Tiwiek S.A

Authors
Yunita Ernawati, Bambang Purnomo
Corresponding Author
Yunita Ernawati
Available Online December 2019.
DOI
10.2991/soshec-19.2019.52How to use a DOI?
Keywords
beauty myths; gender; feminism; Javanese novels
Abstract

This research is motivated by the issue of women that is reproduced and revised continuously up to this day. This thing can be seen is seen in literary works. In this case, the author of Javanese literature, namely Tiwiek S.A, also consistently discussed the issue of women in each of her literary works. One of the issue of women in her work is the concept construction of Javanese women's beauty. Women's beauty is always constructed with an ideal body shape where the ideals have been formed by the community for a long time. Therefore, it makes women depressed with the fetter of beauty concept. This research tries to dismantle how the concept of beauty is constructed in novels by Tiwiek S.A and to find out if there any importance behind the presence of beauty myths in novels by Tiwiek S.A. In order to answer that problem, Naomi Wolf's Beauty Myth Theory which is then supported by the theory of gender feminism is used as a knife for analysis in this study.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Social Sciences, Humanities and Education Conference (SoSHEC 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
December 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-862-8
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/soshec-19.2019.52How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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