Seeing Linguistic Sexism Trough American Newspapers Published In 1960 To Present

ABSTRAK Mulyasari, Kartika. 2017. Seeing Linguistic Sexism Trough American Newspapers Published In 1960’s To Present. Thesis, English Department, Faculty of Letter, Universitas Negeri Malang. Advisor: (I) Dr. Mirjam Anugerahwati, M.A, (II) Drs. Kukuh Prayitno Subagyo, M.A. Keywords: sexism, feminism, American newspaper, first-wave feminism, second-wave feminism, linguistic sexism. Second-wave feminism is a women movements started in the 1960’s. This movement is inspired by a book entitled The Feminine Mystique, whch is authored by a feminist, Betty Friedan. This movement has successfully improved American women’s social life, by ensuring women’s emancipation that gives them freedom in deciding the values in their lifes, for instance, family planning. These freedoms for American women strated after women’s emancipation was officially taking place by the time President John F Kennedy created Presidential Commission on the Status of Women in 1961, as well as by the time American feminists builtorganisations concerning feminism and gender inequalities. This movement endangered the existence of sexism in United States of America. It is quite intriguing to know whether feminism could change some aspects in English like how it could change American women’s social life. It is quite interesting to know whether feminism could banish the idea of sexism. Actually, after 1970’s, English changed to be more neutral, which means that second wave feminism has succesfully put its effect on the system of English, but second wave feminism could not banish sexism in the context of language because of some aspects of American tradition attaced in the language used in United State of America