Breaking Women’s Stereotypes In The Novel Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (2016)

Herlina, Mutiara Oktavia (2022) Breaking Women’s Stereotypes In The Novel Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (2016). Skripsi thesis, Universitas Negeri Padang.

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Abstract

Stereotypes of women still occur in social life, this will not be separated from the influence of patriarchal culture that still exists and also social construction. This study focuses on phenomena that exist in society, and the stereotype of women occurs in the character Keiko in the novel convenience store woman by Sayaka Murata (2016). The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative by applying the existentialist feminism theory of Simone De Beauvoir and the concept of gender discrimination by Mansour Fakih about its relationship with the concept of gender which leads to discrimination. This study aims to find the form of stereotypes on women in the novel and to find out how the main character breaks the stereotypes she gets in this novel. The data in this study were obtained by reading and citing several quotations that were in accordance with the focus of the problem in this study. The results of this study found several forms of women’s stereotypes contained in this novel such as women as mothers, women as incompetent and immature and women as sex objects. The research also reveals the ways in which the main character breaks stereotypes, through work as a convenience store employee and the attitudes that exist in everyday life, the main character shows competence and discipline in work that makes her highly appreciated by her colleagues and she shows independence and shows selfacceptance. although these stereotypes are very difficult to get rid of because of the strong patriarchal culture, there is awareness to try to ignore these stereotypes

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