PEREMPUAN DALAM MENGAMBIL KUASA ATAS TUBUHNYA: ANALISIS NOVEL WOMAN AT POINT ZERO KARYA NAWAL EL SAADAWI

Abstract

This research focuses on the analysis of the novel that raises a problem about a woman in taking  a power over their bodies. The problem of this research is how the female character named  Firdaus in Woman at Point Zero takes power over her body through her own way to escape from the domination of patriarchy. Therefore, this study aims to show how women take on their role in  controlling their bodies by fighting against patriarchal domination. The novel entitled Woman at  Point Zero is taken as the object of this research. The descriptive qualitative method is carried  out in this research by taking data from literature studies and reading the novels used carefully.  This study also uses Simone de Beauvoir's existentialist feminism concept and Kate Millet's sexual  politics to discover how a woman becomes marginalized in a patriarchal system but then she is  ultimately able to fight back by taking over her own body. The result of this study indicates that  despite living in a strong patriarchal system, Firdaus ultimately shows that her existence as a  woman is able to support herself even though her work as a whore is considered despised by most  people. For her, a woman who has succeeded in taking over her body is better than a woman who  has been snatched away from her freedom just because she is submissive to men without being  respected at all. Finally, she no longer makes herself as an object for men, but she takes power  over herself and subjugates men through her work.