Buruh Perempuan di Negeri Perempuan: Studi Kasus Pergeseran Peran Perempuan Minangkabau

Abstract

The research reveals a shifting paradigm in the role of women in Minangkabau. The society perceived that the women world was still dominated by women, where a few of indigenous women still a shield and place it in the safest spot in the economic filed. It makes the case of marginalization of women’s  right becomes a metter that is not relevant to be discussed, but this pradigm could come back in the evalution with the advent of this case study. This research uses historical heuristic method, criticism, interpretation, and historiography). It also describes a shift on the women’s role at Kubang Nan Duo, from the holders of power into centers of production because many asset like lands, have been sold and spout, forcing them to throw them selves in to farm working. This makes the women being undermined from two sides, where indigenous cult as a protector for woman have been cracked by the heat and weathered by rain, while patriarchal culture held them ever after.