AN ANALYSIS OF FEMINISM ON BRITISH CULTURE IN POLITICS BASED ON FILM “THE IRON LADY” BY PHYLLIDA LLOYD

Christopher Setiadi

Abstract


Gender is one of the things that is quite complex in society. Various activities and certain positions sometimes require a view of a particular gender, where this becomes a distance for progress in an aspect of social life. This paper analyze the feminism aspect on a British culture in a politics field which is represented by one of a longest-serving famous Prime Minister of Great Britain named Margaret Thatcher at the film “The Iron Lady” directed by Phyllida Lloyd which is releases on 2011. By her dedication, leadership, and uncompromising politics as a leader in British politics field, she also known as “The Iron Lady” from a Soviet journalist. This research is used a qualitative descriptive by using a words of the dialogue and analyzed by the theories. Some of the theories that is using in this paper are about feminism and women’s role in politics which is will be used to analyze the data. Furthermore, the analysis results that a feminism aspect in British culture, especially at the politics aspect is occur and Margaret Thatcher try to break out an ordinary feminism society side by being a Prime Minister and represent the new value of feminism in a modern era. The findings of this paper hope that give an idea about a new feminism value and also woman’s role in politics.


Keywords


Feminism; British culture; Woman’s role in politics; literature; film

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.30813/jelc.v14i2.5805

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