GENDER INEQUALITIES IN MALE-AND-FEMALE RELATIONSHIPS FOUND IN ARUNDHATI ROY’S NOVEL THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS

ABSTRACT
Hidayah, Nufikha. 2006. Gender Inequalities In Male-and-Female Relationships Found in Arundhati Roy’s Novel The God of Small Things. Final Project. English Literature. Semarang State University.

This final project is aimed at analyzing gender inequality issues existing in Roy’s novel The God of Small Things; which kinds of gender inequalities found in the novel; and how gender inequalities are reflected in the novel.
The object of the study is Roy’s novel The God of Small Things. The data of the study are in the form of words, phrases, sentences, explicit sentences, as well as implicit sentences. The data of this study are collected by doing the following steps: reading the novel carefully for many times, identifying the data related to gender inequality issues, inventorising the data, classifying the data, selecting the data and at last reporting the data into appendixes. There are several techniques to analyze the data. They were exposing, enumerating, explaining, interpreting and the last one is concluding. The interpretation and the explanation are done from the point of view of feminism theory.
Based on the analysis, I can conclude that there are five concepts of gender inequalities. They are gender and women marginalization, gender and subordination, gender and stereotype, gender and violence, and the last gender and burden. Besides, the result of the analysis of Roy’s novel is that there was social convention in which more power and prestige were awarded to men than women. It had conferred greater authority on men than on women. In the global descriptions, women were always regarded as submissive, emotional, dependent, conforming, nurturing and affectionate and powerless people. On the other hand, men were portrayed as dominating, ambitious, independent, aggressive, competitive, self-confident and powerful.
Those images were created power inequalities at that time, mostly in the marriage relationship. Men were regarded as more powerful and they had more authority in the family than women. The condition placed women in position of victims so that it created male-dominant and female-subordinate situations.
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