Discourses of Membatik as A Symbol of the Subtlety of the Javanese Women Character

The research focused on three things, as the platform of the Javanese women expanded, discourses of membatik as a gender representation in Java, and then how did the changing meanings of membatik (making a batik cloth) to the Javanese women. The purpose of this research is to know the reason why discourses of membatik is perpetuated, discourses of membatik e as the creation of the gender system, and the change of meaning to the discourses of membatik for Javanese women. This research uses mixs methode, a descriptive-qualitative and textual. The data will be the oral result of deep interview with women who makes batik from Java and cultures critical to get the results of the research. Based on the research that has been done can formulate three conclusions. The first is the discourses of membatik as a gender system on Javanese women since the beginning to be established by the Javanese society. The discourses of membatik asa disciplinary system for the women's social body attaching it to the object of advanced knowledge relishing. Second, the discourses of membatik are creating a gender system through the discipline of the women body. Third, the discourses of membatik asa moral education and identity of women, in this modern era it is intended as a cultural capital supported by the new discourses ‘membatik membuat halus budi pekerti’ ‘making a batik created subtlety the characters’ to support the tourism industry.