The representation of woman in

Indian Hindi-language biographical

crime movie “Gangubai Kathiawadi”

AYU RISKY
22/495892/PSA/20133
to examine how women are
represented through visuals and
character roles in Gangubai
Kathiawadi
How woman are
represented through
visual and character roles
in Gangubai Kathaiwadi?
The literature background

• Background of the study

• Previous Study
• Review of Literature
Background of the Study

• The state of women representation in movies has become a hot

topic of discussion after the feminists
• Representation itself is interpreted as how the world is
constructed socially and presented to people in specific
meanings. Representation refers to all forms of media, especially
mass media, to all aspects of reality or reality, such as society,
objects, events, to cultural identity.
• The Story of Gangubai: Basically, the film is an adaptation of the
real-life story of 1960s social activist Gangubai Kothewali. The film
Gangubai Kathiawadi is the latest film released in 2022; till date,
very little research, and reviews have been done on the film from
the subaltern angle.
Related studies

• Women Emancipation and Empowerment in The

Incredibles 1 and 2 by Larisa Indriani Putri & Lucia Lusi Ani
Handayani in 2020
• Women’s Language in “The Nanny Diaries” Movie by Ida
Bagus Gede Dharma Sanjaya in 2018
• The Camouflage of “Tough Woman”: The Resistance of
Female Character Against Patriarchal Ideology in Mulan by
Rahmadani Lailawati 1 , Qory Islami 2 , and Mutia Sari
Nursafira in 2020
Review of Literature

• Sex and Gender

According to Echols, John M. (1983:89), "Sex is the characteristic that distinguishes
the male from the female" biological characteristics that distinguish between male
and female sexes.
• Patriarchy: Gender Injustice
According to Bressler (2007, p.159)," patriarchal culture is a system where women
are considered as "property" and men as humans. In this case, men are the
subject, and men can arrange women in social and cultural life. It makes the
women try to fight for their degrees and rights and free them from the patriarchal
culture".
• Woman Discrimination
Woman discrimination is defined as prejudicial treatment of an individual or group
directly to gender. It is not biologically defined to anybody other than from society,
norms, culture, people, and so on that created discrimination (Shastri, 2014).
DATA SOURCE
The primary data of this research were taken from a movie
entitled “Gangubai Kathiawadi”. The supporting data used in
this study taken from “Gangubai Kahiawadi” movie script.
DATA COLLECTION

• The data were collected by watching the movie, then

reading the movie script to make a comparison between
the script and the dialogue in the movie. There were
several techniques used in collecting the data, which
include observing the utterances; reading the movie script
carefully; note-taking; and image-cropping. The last step
in collecting the data was selecting and noting the relevant
data.
DATA ANALYSE

• The movies were analyzed through a critical discourse

approach. The researchers analyse the dialogues,
characters and events in the movie. The researchers
identified and explained the gender-related injustice faced
by women in the movies.
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