Women’s Representation in Media News During the Japanese Period

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200803.048How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Representation, Women, Japanese Occupation, Japanese Mass Media

Abstract

The purpose of this study are: 1) to describe the lives of women during the Japanese occupation in Indonesia; 2) to describe the representation of women in Japanese media news. This research is a qualitative research that is as a research procedure that produces descriptive data. This research uses mass media, namely newspapers published during the Japanese period as the main data. News in Japanese newspapers shows that the activities carried out during the Japanese occupation by women were working in factories, military training, becoming teachers, being nurses and being required to attend special girls’ schools. Here it appears that the figure of women must be able to help not only in the domestic sector but also the public and mixed. Women in the mass media of newspapers in the Japanese period found that women represented as a tough figure, have a strong mentality, but have a pure and gentle soul.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wulandari Dwianty Putri
AU  - Siti Fatimah
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/04
TI  - Women’s Representation in Media News During the Japanese Period
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference On Social Studies, Globalisation And Technology (ICSSGT 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 388
EP  - 395
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200803.048
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200803.048
ID  - Putri2020
ER  -