Feminist Ideology in Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s Novel Entitled Bumi Manusia

Abstract

“Bumi Manusia” novel talks about women who are enthusiastic and passionate. Pramoedya Ananta Toer delivers feminist ideology and also past inequalities between women and men. This novel also impresses the upheaval related to the society and colonization state. The type of this research is a qualitative one by using descriptive methods. The researcher uses words as data sources. The data sources of this research come from the “Bumi Manusia” novel text made by Pramoedya Ananta Toer. The research instrument is the researcher himself because the researcher is the data collection tool as well as being the data analyzer. “Bumi Manusia” novel provides descriptions of Nyai Ontosoroh which can be used by the author to convey feminist ideology according to the result of the analysis. This aims to reconstruct the position of women in society. “Bumi Manusia” novel describes the struggle of third-class women as subjects.