Journal of Feminism and Gender Studies (JFGS)
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2023): Journal of Feminism and Gender Studies

Sexual Violence in the Wattpad's Young Adult Novels: Feminist Studies

Septhi Andini Darmawan (Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia)
H. Halimah (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
27 Jul 2023

Abstract

Nowadays, Indonesia is one of country labeled as sexual violence emergency country. Literature can be medium to expressed writer's view about sexual violence in society, Wattpad as a platform to publishing popular novels can be one of them. Some of Wattpad teen novels choosen sexual violence as a conflict, and it is related to fact that teenager or adolescence was prone to becomed sexual violence victims. This study aimed to describe how sexual violence represented in Wattpad teen novels. Feminist literary criticsm applied in this study, and it shows that not only patriarchy system caused sexual violence, but also caused by juvenile delinquency. Furthermore, the sexual violence solution in Wattpad teenlit represented that some of society has been concerned to victim's perspective.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

FGS

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Subject

Humanities Social Sciences

Description

The Journal of Feminism and Gender Studies (JFGS) main objectives are to develop scientific discourse and analysis on issues of gender and feminism. JFGF accommodates articles with both empirical and discursive approaches by providing freedom of scientific development within the framework of ...