Analisis Wacana Kritis Feminis: Propaganda Gender Dan Distorsi Sejarah Gerwani Dalam Media Orde Baru

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Novita Anggraini Universitas Paramadina

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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the mechanism of distortion of the historiography of the Indonesian Women's Movement through the strategy of manipulating mass media information during the New Order era by applying the Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis framework. The research method uses a qualitative approach with a historical case study design that integrates three levels of analysis: the micro-textual level to identify linguistic structures and rhetorical strategies, the level of discursive practices to examine the process of production and distribution of media discourse, and the level of social practices to connect discourse with patriarchal power structures. The results show that the transformation of the representation of progressive women's organizations into antagonistic entities was carried out through three main discursive strategies: the sexualization of political activities by linking women's participation in the public sphere as a moral deviation, the demonization of the women's movement through the construction of narratives that depict activism as a threat to national stability, and the naturalization of gender subordination that positions women in a deterministic social hierarchy. The conclusion of the study confirms that the mass media operates as an ideological apparatus that produces an artificial consensus about the dangers of women's activism, creating layered stigmatization of GERWANI members as communists and transgressive women that have long-term impacts in shaping collective memory that hinders women's political participation until the contemporary era.

Keywords: Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis, Gender Propaganda, GERWANI, Historical Distortion, Mass Media.

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