POWER RELATIONS IN PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY AS SEEN IN ZOË FERRARIS’S KINGDOM OF STRANGERS

Power often defined as a threat to control weaker societies by those who are stronger for their own power. This definition was deconstructed by a French philosopher, Michel Foucault, who defined power as a relation in which power spreads to individual subunits in society. Powes always has a big impact on society especially discipline body both in men and women. In Kingdom of Strangers, both men and women received discipline body. The purpose of this study is knowing how power relations operate on the discipline body in society as depicted in Zoe Ferraris's Kingdom of Strangers. The method of research used in this research is qualitative research. Based on the problem formulations, the results showed that: (1) power relations in the Kingdom of Strangers is over the body which is divided into power relations over social and sexual body, (2) the types relation of power over social body are controlling, stigmatization, obedience, manipulation, while the power relations over sexual body are controlling and obedience