A WOMAN OBJECTIFICATION IN SANDRA BROWN’ STING: PATRIARCHY STUDY

Abstract
Fadilah, Siti. (16.05.1.1.10037). A woman objectification in Sandra Brown’s
Sting: Patriarchy Study. Thesis. English Study Program of the Faculty of
Social and Cultural Sciences, University of Trunojoyo Madura. Advisor
Imron Wakhid Harits, S.S, M.Pd., Ph.D.
Patriarchy in literature is a media sharing to discuss the domination of
men in literature. Patriarchy in literature is very interesting to analyze. People
were able to discover that Patriarchal system influences the process making of
literature. The aims of this study are to discover about Patriarchal system
reflected and identify woman objectification occur in the novel entitled Sting by
Sandra Brown. The discussion focuses on the utterances and action of the main
character also the narrations of the author, which show the woman objectification
happens to the woman character in the novel.
The writer applies theory from Katte Milett as the main theory to analyze
woman objectification in the novel. This theory provides three main points of
woman objectification, those are, women subordination, women oppression and
sexual objects. The theory emphasizes on the woman character that being the
subordinate of men, treated differently, oppressed by the men characters and
converted woman into object of sexual fantasy by the men characters. The subject
of this study is the woman main character, Jordie Banett. The data analysis of this
study used qualitative method by Creswell. The data were collected by the writer
herself. In analyzing the data, the writer explored every social and human
problem to understand the existing phenomena about woman objectification using
the question and analyzing data from particulars to general and report that as
flexible writing structure.
The findings of the study revealed that the woman character named Jordie
is being subordinate to the men characters. The men characters in the in the novel
Sting are violent to the woman character and under men’s characters, Jordie
treated differently such as converted into sexual fantasy. Jordie also being
dehumanizing and treated as a thing that can be exchanged with money.

Keywords : Patriarchy, women objectification, Sting