Thera Widyastuti
Program Studi Rusia, Fakultas Ilmu Pengetahuan Budaya, Universitas Indonesia

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REPRESENTASI KESETARAAN PERAN SUAMI DAN ISTRI DALAM FILM <i>CHELOVEK KOTORIY UDIVIL VESKH/</i> PRIA YANG MENGEJUTKAN SEMUA ORANG Sekara, Amanda Herawaty; Widyastuti, Thera
Multikultura Vol. 5, No. 2
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As one of the most popular forms of cultural production, film does not merely function as entertainment for society but also serves as a medium for highlighting social issues that have occurred or are currently unfolding within it. One Russian film that raises such social issues is Chelovek, kotoryj Udivil Vsekh (The Man Who Surprised Everyone), which implicitly addresses gender equality in modern Russian society. This study examines the representation of equality between women and men within the domestic sphere and how it relates to social realities in contemporary Russia. The theories of gender equilibrium and feminism, along with character analysis, are employed to analyze the issues in the lives of Egor and Natalya. The findings demonstrate that the idea of equality in spousal roles can be conveyed, with the hope of contributing to a shift in the reality of household life in Russia toward a new condition in which husbands and wives hold equal positions within the family.
Konstruksi “Keluarga Bahagia”: Pernikahan Patriarkal dan Penyangkalan Subjektivitas Perempuan dalam Karya Leo Tolstoy Kumara Anggita; Thera Widyastuti
Jurnal Perempuan Vol. 30 No. 3 (2025): Normalisasi Opresi dan Politik Resistensi: Perspektif Feminis Interseksional a
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Through a feminist existentialist reading of Leo Tolstoy’s novel Semeinoe schast’e (Family Happiness, 1859), this article examines how the institution of marriage is represented as a mechanism that consolidates gender ideology in nineteenth-century Russian literature. Drawing on Simone de Beauvoir’s concepts of immanence–transcendence and otherness, the study analyzes the female protagonist’s lived experience within marital relations that are constructed as a domestic and moral space, as well as a normative horizon of happiness. The analysis shows that Tolstoy reproduces patriarchal ideology through four main narrative patterns: unequal spousal relations, the monsterization of the female character, a cycle of transgression–punishment–repentance, and the triumph of male values and perspectives at the end of the story. In this novel, family happiness becomes possible only through women’s subordination and the denial of their subjectivity and transcendental potential. This article argues that Family Happiness does not merely represent nineteenth-century Russian social norms but operates as a narrative device that tends to normalize and sustain patriarchal marriage; this claim is demonstrated through a mapping of the narrative patterns presented in the analysis section.