Komunikasi Dakwah dalam Novel “Habibie & Ainun” Karya Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie (Analisis Gender)

Rahmah, Mariyatul Norhidayati ( Institut Agama Islam Negeri Antasari Banjarmasin)

Jurnal Muadalah
Vol 2, No 2 (2014): Perempuan dan Kitab Suci

Gender Issues is still a thing inherent in family life. It also can be found, in the social construction, attitudes that are unfavorable to women, like for example women marginalization, women’s position subordination, or women’s labeling that they are irrational. Those treatments have made women losing their rights in the decision-making in the family or social life. Thus, various efforts are needed to improve gender equity. The communication of Dakwah in the novel of Ainun and Habibie can be one of the efforts to achieve it. The novel of Ainun and Habibie firmly reflects Habibie’s attitudes and perspective on gender. His expression of appreciation and respect to women is clearly pictured in the sentence like: “hidden behind the success of a figure two important women’s role—a mother and a wife. Habibie, quoting Ainun’s expression: “The big you and the small I”, clearly describes Ainun as a wife who can create harmony and balance in their family life, and with her modesty giving the front position to her husband. The ‘Ark’ of Habibie and Ainun has managed to shift the state of the family—from nothing to everything, in many ways.