VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ABUSE OF WOMEN IN TOEWS’S WOMEN TALKING

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.