Sexual Violence Against Women in Mike Barker’s Film "Luckiest Girl Alive": A Feminist Analysis

Abstract

The topic of this research is sexual violence. Sexual violence is any act of attacking the body, a person's reproductive function, humiliating, harassing, or belittling because it has unequal power relations such as gender, social, and economic which results in psychological and physical suffering. The keyword that becomes an indicator of violence is coercion or it can be said that any activity involving coercion is violence. This research aims to describe the types of sexual violence depicted in the film "Luckiest Girl Alive" and to identify the negative impacts of sexual violence on the main female character. The researcher applies theories by Bickerstaff and Brownmiller from a feminist perspective and uses a qualitative descriptive method. The object of this research is the film "Luckiest Girl Alive" directed by Mike Barker. Data collection is done through documentation techniques, and the data is analyzed using descriptive analysis. From this research, the researcher identified two types of sexual violence, namely verbal sexual violence and physical sexual violence, with verbal sexual violence being dominant based on the data. The researcher also found negative impacts of sexual violence, including psychological trauma, physical and reproductive health damage, disruptions in interpersonal relationships, social and economic consequences, and behavioral changes, with psychological trauma being dominant.