| dc.description.abstract | Lipstick Jungle is a novel by Candace Bushnell published in 2005. The novel
represents career women’s life. The female characters are portrayed as career women
who live in the patriarchal system. The system causes some problems for career
women. There are three problems to discuss in this study. The first problem is the point
of view of the female characters about career women and families’ life. The second one
is the difficulties experienced by the female characters related to career and families’
life. The last problem is the female characters’ decision to choose between career or
families’ life.
The problems are analyzed by using the theory of patriarchy proposed by
Sylvia Walby. A patriarchy is a social system that men handle the power to all
important sectors in family, society, government, economy, education and other
sectors. This theory is used to analyze the data related to the problems of career women
in the patriarchal system. The results of this study show that the female characters as
career women live without considering women’s role in the patriarchal system. They
are the modern women who bravely say what they want to do and choose the way of
life, whether they have to be a woman, a mother, an unmarried woman, a married
woman, a housewife, or a career woman. | en_US |
