Gender Representation in Perpustakaan Intan
When Mother is Gaining Attention, is Father Losing Power?
Abstract
There is little research on gender-related children's picture books in Indonesia. In this article, we discuss the disclosure of gender representation in a picture book entitled Perpustakaan Intan. The high number appearances of women, the actions pinned on women, and the clothes displayed in both text and images are materials for visualizing women and men. Previous studies have revealed that men dominate the number of appearances in books. However, this book displays women more often than men. On the one hand, this raises the question of whether this means women are in power, and on the other hand, men are portrayed as powerless. Utilizing the multimodality approach, the results show that although women appear more in the narrative, women are still represented as less powerful.
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DeWitt, A. L., Cready, C. M., & Seward, R. R. (2013). Parental Role Portrayals in Twentieth Century Children’s Picture Books: More Egalitarian or Ongoing Stereotyping? Sex Roles, 69(1–2), 89–106. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-013-0285-0
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Lazar, M. M. (2014). Doing “critical” in a postfeminist era: reviving critical consciousness through peer dialog. Discourse, 35(5), 733–748. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2014.931115
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Machin, D. and A. M. (2012). How to do Critical Discourse Analysis. Sage Publications.
Morgan, H. (2009). Picture Books Biographies for Young Children: A Way to Teach Multiple Perspectives. Early Childhood Education Journal, 37, 219–227. https://doi.org/Doi: 10.1007/s10643-009-0339-7
Mulyono, E. (2009). Perpustakaan Intan (Vol. 2, Issue 2). Diva Press.
Murachver, T., & Janssen, A. (2007). Gender and Communication in Context. In W. Ann (Ed.), Language, Discourse and Social Psychology (pp. 185–205). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230206168_8
Nasution, A. G. J. (2018). Bias Gender Dalam Buku Pelajaran Ski Tingkat Madrasah Ibtidaiyah. Journal of Contemporary Islam and Muslim Societies, 1(2), 248. https://doi.org/10.30821/jcims.v1i2.1724
Ramdhan, M., Ariyanti, L., & Harti, M. S. (2021). The Representation of Masculinity in Men’s Health Magazine on Advertisements: Multimodal Discourse Analysis. 13(1), 52–67. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.36841/pioneer.v13i1
Sunderland, J., & Mcglashan, M. (2013). Looking at picturebook covers multimodally: The case of two-Mum and two-Dad picturebooks. Visual Communication, 12(4), 473–496. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470357212471474
Tepper, C. A., & Cassidy, K. W. (1999). Gender differences in emotional language in children’s picture books. Sex Roles, 40(3–4), 265–280. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018803122469
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Van Dijk, T. A. (2009). Society and Discourse: How Social Context Influence Text and Talks. Cambridge University Press.
Van Leeuwen, T. (2008). Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis. Oxford University Press.
Ventola, E., & Guijarro, A. J. M. (2009). The world told and the world shown: Multisemiotic issues. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230245341
Weitzman, L. J. (1972). Sex-role socialization in picture books for preschool children. American Journal of Sociology, 77(6), 1125–1150. https://doi.org/10.1086/225261
Published
2021-12-31
How to Cite
SETIARINI, Riskia et al.
Gender Representation in Perpustakaan Intan.
Pioneer: Journal of Language and Literature, [S.l.], v. 13, n. 2, p. 243-259, dec. 2021.
ISSN 2655-8718.
Available at: <https://unars.ac.id/ojs/index.php/pioneer/article/view/1286>. Date accessed: 27 nov. 2024.
doi: https://doi.org/10.36841/pioneer.v13i2.1286.
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