Gender Inequality towards Women in Novel Ikhtilas by Hani Naqshabandi

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume V, Issue XI, November 2021 | ISSN 2454–6186

Gender Inequality towards Women in Novel Ikhtilas by Hani Naqshabandi

Wulida Fairuza Azkiya, Maman Lesmana
Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia

Abstrak: This study discusses gender injustice against women in the novel Ikhtilas by Hani Naqshabandi. This novel tells the story of the lives of women in Saudi Arabia, both when they were before marriage to when they were married. This study uses the theory of gender injustice by Mansour Fakih, he divided the forms of gender injustice into five parts, namely marginalization, subordination, stereotyping, violence, and workload. The purpose of this study is to explain what forms of gender injustice against Saudi Arabian women are in the novel and what forms of injustice are dominant in the novel. The method used is a qualitative method. The results of this study are that there are all five forms of gender injustice by Mansour Fakih in the novel. The dominant forms of gender injustice are subordination, stereotype, and violence. Each of these forms of injustice has five types of cases in the novel. The gender injustice towards women that occurs in this novel is caused by the patriarchal culture that is still inherent in Saudi Arabia.

Keywords: gender injustice, novel, Arabic literature, Hani Naqshabandi, Ikhtilas

I. INTRODUCTION

Hani Naqshabandi is a writer who was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on November 11, 1963. Hani studied in Political Science from King Abdul Aziz University (Jeddah), majoring in International Relations. As a journalist, he has worked as a correspondent for the Alsharq Al-Awsat newspaper and Al-Majalla magazine in the city of Jeddah. In 1992, he moved to London, where he founded Al-Rayul magazine, then worked as an assistant director of editing at Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, and later as editor-in-chief of Al-Sayyidati magazine. Then he moved to Dubai and there he was a contributor to the Dubai TV channel, organizing the “Dialogue with Hani” program on politics, economics, literature and science. He currently divides his time between journalistic analysis for various media and literary creation. The famous Lebanese publishing company, Dar Al-Saqi, has published all the novels that have been made by Hani including Ikhtilas, Salam, Laila Wahida fi Dubai, NisfMuwatinMuhtaram, Tabaqat al-Jannah, and Al-Khatib. She also actively writes opinion opinions on her social media, and the novel PerempuanTerpasung is her first novel published in Indonesian. One of the active social media he uses is Facebook, which can be found in the link https://www.facebook.com/hani.nakshabandi.5. Hani often shares status on her Facebook account until now. Good to provide motivational words, share the activities he was doing, or just simply greeting his Facebook friends.

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