JELLT (Journal of English Language and Language Teaching)
Vol 1 No 2 (2017)

GENDER DISCRIMINATION REFLECTED IN THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD BY ZORA NEALE HURSTON: FEMINIST APPROACH

Agus Triyogo (STKIP PGRI Lubuklinggau)
Chairunnisa Chairunnisa (STKIP PGRI Lubuklinggau)



Article Info

Publish Date
14 Nov 2017

Abstract

This study aims to analyze gender discrimination reflected in novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. This study reveals kinds of gender discrimination as reflected in the novel and how the gender discrimination affects characters as reflected in the novel. This study employed feminist approach. The writers only focused on analyzing gender discrimination issue limited on woman. The results show that the kinds of gender discrimination found in the novel were natality inequality, mortality inequality, household inequality, special opportunity inequality, and professional inequality. The effect of gender discrimination covered physical problems, psychological problems, impact on women’s family and dependent, and impact on social.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jellt

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

JELLT (Journal of English Language and Language Teaching) is a refereed publication devoted to research articles, and reports concerned with the teaching and learning of English, language in education, language planning, language testing, curriculum design and material development, multilingualism ...