| dc.description.abstract | This research analyzes the problem of gender discrimination based on the
true experience of Malala Yousafzai and other female characters in I am Malala.
Women in Pakistan are discriminated under the Taliban regime. They cannot get
their right to get education, forbidden to go out of their home, and they are not
allowed to hold any kind of jobs. They just confined to household activities and
stay at home. This research uses representation theory by Stuart Hall to analyze
the discourse of gender discrimination faced by the main female characters in the
novel.
This research uses qualitative method and the data are divided into two
kinds of data. They are primary and secondary data. The primary data are taken
from the novel including dialogues and sentences. The secondary data are taken
from some references related to gender discrimination such as books, articles,
theses and journals. The data are divided into two categories. The first is the
representation of gender discrimination in Pakistan in 2012, and the second is
about the critical position of the authors.
As the result, this research shows that there are many kinds of gender
discrimination toward the main female characters. Those are prohibition to get
education, women limited access and obligation to wear burqa. These obligations
are considered as violation of human freedom. In Pakistan men are considered as
the dominant rules and women as the subordinate ones in the society because of
that all people activities are differentiated based on gender by the Taliban. It
makes Malala and Lamb really disagree toward the way how the Taliban treats
women in the novel. | en_US |
