The Portrayal of an Androgynous Female Protagonist in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women
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androgynous, jo march, little women, radical-libertarian feminism, oppression, struggleAbstract
This study focuses on the oppression and struggles faced by Jo March in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women (2018) as androgynous woman. The source of data in this study is from Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women (2018). The theory that is used in this study is radical-libertarian Feminism from Tong and Botts (2018) and characteristics of bitch from Freeman in Fahs’ book (2020). This study uses library research to collect the data. The data is collected from reading the novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (2018). The data of this study are dllerived from the monologue, dialogue between the characters, and the author’s narration. The points of this study are finding out three types of oppression experienced by Jo March in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women (2018) as androgynous woman such as mental, verbal, and social oppression and knowing the result about Jo March’s struggle which reflects radical-libertarian feminism namely struggle for the idea and struggle for androgynous woman
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