Conflicts of Women’s Role in Utilizing Conservation Values: Critical Examination of Environmental Perspective Works

---The roots of crisis and environmental pollution as well as the degradation of culture are human positivistic empirical assumptions. Thus, a deconstruction of knowledge epistemological root and reconstructing it is needed. In this case, understanding the role of men and women within the context of literary works as representation of community’s view. This study was aimed at describing and reconstructing three aspects: women role conflicts toward the utilization of conservational values, and women efforts to resolve women roles’ conflicts that arise within the literary work with environmental perspective. This study employed descriptive qualitative method with ecofeminist approach, an approach related to environmental science, especially environmental conservation. Information were collected through interview, documentation, and library study with recording and taking notes. The literary work used in this study was the Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk novel by Ahmad Thohari. Based on the analysis, the conflicts routed from the double burden of the woman. There were three types of conflict found in this novel, namely 1) time-based conflict happened when woman’s time devoted for conservation works reduced her time for other roles; 2) strain-based conflict, when the pressure from one role influences her other role; and 3) behavior-based conflict when there is a mismatch of expected behavioral pattern of two parties. Woman solved this conflict through self-motivation, time management, openness, and additional extrinsic motivation. These conflicts are relevant to women’s efforts in environmental conservations.