Maria Angelina Chandra, 120912163 (2013) A STUDY OF LAURA INGALLS’ NEGOTIATION TOWARD TRADITIONAL GENDER ROLES IN LAURA INGALLS WILDER’S LITTLE TOWN ON THE PRAIRIE NOVEL. Skripsi thesis, UNIVERSITAS AIRLANGGA.

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Abstract

This research attempts to show how women‟s negotiation towards traditional gender roles in the nineteenth century in America is depicted in Little Town on the Prairie. The objective of the study is to reveal how Laura Ingalls as the main character accepts or refuses to assume the traditional gender roles. The writer analyzes Laura Ingalls‟ characterization in the framework of the feminist literary criticism by applying the close reading method. The writer reveals Laura‟s negotiation by conducting two steps of analysis. Firstly, the writer relates the historical background of the novel with female characters in order to reveal their responses towards the patriarchal ideology and then compares it with Laura‟s. Secondly, the writer compares the portrayal of Laura Ingalls with the ideal roles of women in the nineteenth century based on Wollstonecraft‟s and Beecher and Stowe‟s point of view. The ideal roles stated by these authors can also be inferred as the basic point of gender stereotype which classify Laura‟s behavior as good or bad one. The writer uses Mary Wollstonecraft‟s theory as the main theory. To strengthen the analysis, the writer uses some books as the references. Finally, this study finds that Laura negotiates the traditional gender roles and does not fully oppose them.

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