Marginalized narrative, the study of the Mated Group’s theory for the history of women

Issues related to the imbalance of women’s role always accompany every era of the times, as it also always haunts women’s rights in gaining their equality before the social public. For centuries of human civilization itself has made a picture of women with ambiguous and paradoxes. On the one hand, women are worshiped and demeaning. It is no more considered a beautiful body like a flower when blooming, but then dumped just like that when he withered.

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In historical struggles, women often do not have their rights as a whole human being as a man. They are silenced in a social status in the midst of society, its existence is often considered a malapatheka even considered a disgrace. In this article, the author tries to review how historical civilization on the Women’s Drunks, through the study of the Mated Group’s theory or commonly called the Theory of Silence Groups.

Get to know the theory of silence groups

The theory of Moved Group Theory-MGT originated from the work of Edwin and Shirley Ardener, social anthropologists who were interested in social structure and hierarchy. In 1975, Edwin Ardener stated that the group that compiled the top part of the social hierarchy determined the communication system for the culture. Groups with lower power such as women, poor, and color people, must learn to work in a communication system that has been developed by the dominant group.

The assumption of the theory of silence groups built by Kramarae is as follows: The first assumption, women perceive the world differently from men because of the experiences of different women and men and the activities that are rooted in the division of work. This assumption is based on differences in gender perception. This assumption starts from the premise is that the world is a different place between men and women.

In addition, this assumption also provides an explanation for the division of jobs that allocate work based on gender, for example women are responsible for work inside the house and men are responsible for work outside the home. The 18th and 19th century industrial revolution has changed the division of work out of the house into a paid job. According to Sandra Bern, this division of labor causes gender polarization lenses that make people see women and men as two people who are different from each other. The second assumption, due to the dominance of men’s political dominance, the dominant male perception system, inhibits the free expression of the alternative model of women about the world. This assumption is more assertive in the dominant group is male.

History of Silence of Women’s Life

In 288 BC, Christians held a conference held in France, to discuss the position of a woman in the social environment. The conference produced three questions.

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FirstIs a woman who has a spirit or not? SecondIf only women have a spirit, then will the spirit be classified as a human spirit or animal? ThirdThen, is the female spirit equal to the spirit of a man?

From the results of the conference produced a conclusion namely; That women have a spirit, but are not equivalent to the spirit possessed by men because women are created solely to serve the desires and lust of the man.

Entering the Arab period before Islam was present, women were considered slaves who entered the social system at that time. In addition, the treatment of women is often inhuman. Women are used as material for human trafficking, being the object of sexual harassment, rape, beating, to the murder that befell women is a form of normal thing.

Unsafe situations also often haunt the lives of women and children. At that time, women and children could not leave the house alone. In the sense that must be accompanied by her companion, both her husband, her father or relative.

This is far proportional to men who have the freedom to get along outside the home freely. Before Islam was present in the Arabian Peninsula, discrimination against women was an ordinary sight. Women are buried alive when the baby is considered a family disgrace, marriage before menstruation and divorced.

Women are also traded like merchandise. Become a symbol of humiliation for the family. Objects and male sex satisfaction tools. And used as a guarantee of debt. Even women often become prisoners of homes with forced to do heavy work and are considered gone, also not counted as family members.

This is like a habit that is considered a common thing, because it thinks that women are class two. And the whole rights of women were taken away.

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Islam that defends women’s rights

Islam brought by the Prophet Muhammad then touched this Arab plain and revised the status of women who were considered as disgrace to be the same creatures as men before God.

In Surah Al-Hujurat, 49/13 stated that God sees human values ​​in terms of piety, not in his genitals

O people, we created you from men and women, and we have made you people and tribes to find out.

It means: “O humanity, in fact we have created you from a man and a woman and made you a nation and ethnicity so that you know each other. Indeed, the most honorable among you is the most frightening for you. (QS Al-Holy Verse 13)

The presence of Islam brings a breath of fresh air to women’s rights. The traditions that were previously believed to be the teachings of ancestors and held closely by the community, vanished by the light of Islam carried by the Prophet Muhammad.

Women in the auspices of Islam are released by discriminatory shackles that are not in accordance with human rights. Women are considered as God’s creatures who are parallel to their degrees. And have an important role in building a social order of society.

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For example, during the post -observing the Prophet Muhammad, Sayyidatina Aisyah was a reference for Islamic knowledge at that time. Friends and Tabiin bought to learn Sayyidatina Aisyah to dig up the hadiths from the Prophet.

So that the famous narrators were born as we know today, including Abu Hurairah, Ibn Abbas and many others. The presence of Islam is also for women to be considered as the beginning of liberation. Like, the prohibition of burying a baby girl, marrying when it has passed the pallice or menses, has the right to get an inheritance and has the right to give inheritance, has the right to decide the dowry that is to be given when married and so forth.

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Writer: Dimas Setyawan Saputro
Editor: Rara Zaryry