Abstract:
The aimed of this study was to determine the types of violence and sexual
abuse in Women Talkingby Miriam Toews's Novel and describe the struggle of
the main 8 characters from violence and sexual abuse in Women Talkingby
Miriam Toews's Novel.
The method was used in this research was descriptive qualitative method.
The data in this research was in the form of analyzed applied the sociology of
literature to analyzed violence and the sexual harassment of women in Molutsche.
After collecting the data, the data analyze through Tong (2013) feminism theory
of literature to analyze the main characters of violence and sexual abuse
harassment in women.
Based on the results of this study, it was found that the types all Women
Talkingwas based on the true story of a Mennonite colony in Bolivia, where, from
2005 to 2009, hundreds of women young and old were routinely drugged with
animal anesthetic spray and raped. They awoke to pain, bruises, and bleeding. A
"group of eight" men had violated almost every female member of the colony.
This was a struggle for feminists to prove that gender equality was very necessary
in social life.
