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Karina Hanum Luthfia
Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni, Universitas Negeri Semarang
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Patriarchal Bargaining Strategies in The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives by Lola Shoneyin Lorencia Sariani Tondang; Karina Hanum Luthfia
IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Literature Vol. 14 No. 1 (2026): IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Lite
Publisher : Universitas Islam Negeri Palopo

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24256/ideas.v14i1.10748

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This research examines the mechanisms of the patriarchal bargain within a polygamous household through a textual analysis of Lola Shoneyin’s novel The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives. Employing Deniz Kandiyoti’s framework of the "patriarchal bargain," this study aims to analyze how the absolute authority of the male head is maintained and subsequently negotiated by his four wives. The research utilizes a descriptive qualitative method with a systematic close reading approach. The findings indicate that the patriarchal system in Baba Segi's household operates through a rigid "rule of the game" that reduces a woman’s worth entirely to her reproductive function. This system strips childless women of their personal identity, comfort, and verbal rights. To survive these concrete constraints, the wives deploy bargaining strategies. First, the three senior wives, namely Iya Segi, Iya Tope, and Iya Femi, execute a Reproductive Strategy. They perform exaggerated domestic submission and flattery to mask their deliberate biological sabotage, secretly conceiving children with other men to secure material safety and social prestige. Second, the educated fourth wife, Bolanle, deploys an Intellectual Resistance Strategy. Utilizing her higher education and critical reasoning, Bolanle rejects traditional, irrational solutions and shifts the domestic battleground to a modern medical institution. Under the authority of science, she successfully exposes the husband's infertility, thereby dismantling the false premise of absolute male supremacy. This research concludes that the characters in the novel are strategic actors who actively exploit the blind spots of patriarchal power. The patriarchal bargain does not merely limit women's options, but also provides distinct avenues for active subversion, proving that women will systematically leverage their specific modalities whether interpersonal deceit or intellectual capacity to destabilize masculine dominance.
The Challenge of Women's Domestication Portrayed in Ayobami Adebayo's Stay with Me Khodijah Munawar; Karina Hanum Luthfia
IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Literature Vol. 13 No. 2 (2025): IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Lite
Publisher : Universitas Islam Negeri Palopo

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24256/ideas.v13i2.7336

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This article explores the challenge of women’s domestication portrayed in Ayobami Adebayo’s Stay with Me, with a focus on how womanhood is narrowly defined through marriage and motherhood. Through the lens of Betty Friedan’s liberal feminism, this research analyses how societal and familial expectations and pressures domesticate women and reduce their identity and worth to their reproductive roles. The main character in this book, Yejide, represents a woman whose education, achievements, and personal identities are constantly overshadowed by pressures to bear children. This domestication and reduction of her womanhood not only limit her worth in the eyes of society but also gradually strip away her identity. This research reveals that by portraying her struggles and challenges, the novel critiques societal and familial norms that domesticate women and equate womanhood with motherhood. Ultimately, Stay With Me intervenes in the domestication of women and the reduction of womanhood to motherhood and demands a redefinition, one that recognises women as complete in themselves, regardless of whether or not they become mothers.
Co-Authors Khodijah Munawar Lorencia Sariani Tondang