Women’s Perspective on Love, Loyalty, and the Other Woman in Indonesian literature

This paper tries to see how women writers see topics of love, loyalty, and the other woman through literary works spread across the periods in Indonesian literature. The data in this study were taken from short stories written by various female authors published in 1940-2000 which were assembled in a collection of Dunia Perempuan short stories. Data were discussed by using the theory of Gynocritics and analyzed with the content analysis method. Based on the results of data analysis, it was found that female authors tend to assume that love and loyalty are the most important thing in their lives, particularly in their marriage lives. Moreover, they do not associate the other woman who is present in the midst of their household negatively.