Men and woman as victims of patriarchy in Ika Natassa’s Books: Critical Eleven & Divortiare Trilogy

In this paper we intend to analyze the victimization of patriarchy toward two genders at the same time, male and female. Previously patriarhy was considered as a system that oppresses women only due to its characteristics that favor man. We analyze the behavior of the main characters in Ika Natassa’s novels, Critical Eleven and Divortiare Trilogy, who allegedly embody the patriarchal values in their behaviors on a daily basis, the values that could victimize hem. In analyzing the novels, we use the traditional Javanese values that reflect patriarchal ideology, such as 3M and benggol & bonggol. We divide the analysis into two parts. In the first part, we analyze how patriarchal ideology affects the lives of the two main female characters, Alex and Anya, where they had to keep up with the expectation of becoming the ideal traditional wife and how it put them in hard times. In the second part, we analyze how the patriarchal ideology strangely also affects the husbands of the main female characters. The finding shows that patriarchal ideologies surprisingly oppresses not only the wives but the husbands as well.