Women Rivalry: How Women Define Other Women as Enemies Reflected
in an Indonesian Telecinema “
Putih Abu-abu
”
Jessyca Dian Purnama Puteri
Abstract
Due to the fact that Indonesian telecinema is one of the popular products, so this study was conducted in order to analyze what is actually beyond the episodes of one popular Indonesian
telecinema: “Putih Abu-abu.” Conflicts shown in Putih Abu-abu are mostly about how
women define other women as their enemies, or women rivalry. Using The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s book, “Women and Economics”, this study explores two different motives of women rivalry reflected in this telecinema by analyzing some of the characters’ conversations and the actions. The findings reveal that the two big motives behind as the base of the women rivalries in this telecinema, are gaining
men’s attention and money matters by protecting their wealth and gaining power from
wealth.
Keywords: women rivalry, ideology, motive, telecinema, men, competition, feminism,