Soekarno’s View of Indonesian Women The Memoir of Sarinah: A Critical Feminist Discourse Analysis

Abstract

This study is aimed at: (1) explaining Soekarno s views about women in Sarinah’s memoir by Ir. Soekarno and (2) describing the portrait of Sarinah, a woman who lived during the independence period. Both of these aspects were explained in the frame of sociocultural factors that cause sexism in Sarinah’s memoir. The material object of this research is a memoir entitled Sarinah, by Ir. Soekarno, the first president of Indonesian Republic. The formal object of this research is the use of Indonesian in the perspective of critical feminist discourse analysis from the Sara Mills Model. The data were collected by applying note-taking techniques and literature studies to capture the data of social identity, knowledge, and author’s beliefs and literature to obtain the data of the social, institutional, and situation of the birth of the memoir. The data were analysed by reducing, displaying, and verifying it followed by interpreting the theory and summarizing the result using Sara Mills’s feminist stylistic theory and Teun van Dijk s social cognition theory.