<![CDATA[Keywords : Women Movement, Liberal Feminism, France, Early TwentiethCentury, Coco Before ChanelWomen movement is a women’s action to break down the patriarchy system which evolves in society. The patriarchy system states that women is minority in the society. Their role is only to take care of their family. They can not go to work outside and interact with others in the society. In France society, women and men have difference of right. French women then start the women movement to break the patriarchy system. This phenomenon is portrayed in Coco Before Chanel movie. The women movement including women’s life choice and dream in the early twentieth century in France becomes this study main concern. This study aims to show the women movement in the early twentieth century in France which is done by a woman named Gabrielle Chanel.This study uses feminism theory to know the women movement breaking down the patriarchy system in society and struggling their right in order to get the same right to men. Materialist feminism by Rosemary Hennessy and Chrys Ingraham is used as the main theory. It states that women are free to choose their life and career to get their right. This theory is the appropriate theory to analyze the struggle of women to choose their career and life among the society. In addition to it, cinematography theory by Blain Brown is also applied to support the analysis of the visual image.This study reveals the women movement in the early twentieth century in France which is done by a woman named Gabrielle Chanel, a founder Chanel Company. Gabrielle Chanel has successed to break the patriarchy system. Her action to do the men’s activities such as horseracing and to become career women are her brave movements to break down the patriarchy system. Another women movement is shown by her brave life choice to exploit another people and todecide to be unmarried. So, it is clear by the study that the struggle of womenmovement in the early twentiethh century in France is succesfully done byGabrielle Chanel which is potrayed in this movie. Coco Before Chanel movie alsocan be analyzed by another perspective like marxism. The society class and thesubordination of high class society towards lower class society portrays the sociallife in the early twentieth century in France]]>
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