REPRESENTATION OF FEMINISM IN TAYLOR SWIFT’S SONGS

Abstract

Feminist language reform or feminist language planning refers to the effort, often of political and grassroots movements, to change how language is used to gender people, activities and ideas on an individual and societal level. The language in terms of words, phrases, and clauses to portray women as either the instigations or objects of domestic violence. The objectives of the study are to find out what kinds of feminism and how the feminism depicted in Taylor Swift’s song lyrics. The present study employs qualitative descriptive methods and use content analysis technique to interpret the data. The source of data is taken from seven Taylor Swift’s song entitled: Look What You Made Me Do, The Man, I Forgot That You Existed, You Need to Calm Down, I Did Something Bad, Mad Woman, and Long Story Short. the data are the phrases or sentences contains portrayal women as objects. The steps of the procedure of the data analysis are: 1) highlighting the phrases or sentences contains women’s roles, 2) classifying the phrases or sentences based on the types of feminism, 3)interpreting the data, and 4) drawing conclusion. Results show that most of Taylor Swifts’ songs depicts liberal feminism and Taylor Swift expresses the liberal feminism through lyrics showing women struggles to combat domination, pursuing her goals, and expressing women emancipation.