Women's Resistance to Marginalization in Oka Rusmini's Novel Tempurung: A Study of Feminist Literature

Abstract

This study aims to describe women's struggle against marginalization in the novel Tempurung by Oka Rusmini with a feminist literary criticism approach. The research method used is qualitative descriptive with data sources for the novel Tempurung by Oka Rusmini published in 2018 by PT. Grasindo. The data collection technique used is a human instrument in the form of reading and recording techniques. The results of this study show that in fighting marginalization (1) women make efforts to work hard to improve economic conditions; (2) women make efforts to become intellectuals; (3) women’s efforts to show their existence; and (4) women's efforts to fight Balinese customary law. The resistance carried out by Saring, Sipleg, Jinah, Putu, and Pidagda as Balinese women who experience patriarchal shackles is a representation of the struggle against the marginalization of women.