Oppression On Women In Sandra Brown’s Exclusive Novel

This study is aimed at analyzing and finding out oppression on women in the Exclusive novel. The writer used the descriptive qualitative method to identify, analyze, and to describe the finding of women’s oppression with the result in the form of an essay. The primary data of this study were taken from Exclusive novel. Meanwhile, the data were analyzed through the feminist theory using five types of oppression theory based on Irish Young. The purpose of this study is to get the women’s oppression in the novel. Therefore, based on the results of data analysis, they were found that there are two kinds of women’s responses towards oppression in the novel. Furthermore, the writer classified the oppression into several types; marginalization, exploitation, powerless, violence, and cultural imperialism. Keyword: Literature, Feminist theory, Oppression on Women, Exclusive, Irish Marion Young.