Portrait of Women’s Struggles Towards Domination of Patriarchal Culture in Cantik Itu Luka and Kalatidha

This article was written aimed at describing the forms of women’s struggle, the causes and impacts in the novel Cantik Itu Luka Karya Eka Kurniawan and the Kalatidha Novel by Seno Gumira Ajidarma. This type of research is qualitative with content analysis techniques. The approach taken in this research is the fiction analysis approach. The data of this study are words, phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and discourses that contain a portrait of women’s struggle. The data collection techniques of this research were reading, understanding, identifying, authenticating, and classifying data related to the portrait of the struggle of women in the novel Cantik Itu Luka The work of Eka Kurniawan and the Kalatidha Novel by Seno Gumira Ajidarma. The results showed that women in the novel Cantik Itu Lukaby Eka Kurniawan more often to do semiterbuka resistance, whereas in the Kalatidha novel by Seno Gumira Ajidarma were more dominant in conducting closed resistance, the cause was because women experienced violence, and the impact obtained was that female characters get negative impacts from the struggle he had done.