Despite the growing number of Indonesian academia using ecofeminism approach in their literary criticism, some misunderstandings on ecofeminism still exist. This article provides a reference on ecofeminism perspective and gives an example how ecofeminism perspective from Warren and Cheney is applied in literary criticism. A well-known poem entitled "Isteri" (Wife) written by a Javanese poet, Darmanto Jatman, is chosen. Close reading is used to gather data which is relevant to ecofeminism issues. Textual analysis is then used in the analysis. The Javanese men see their wives as their source of power, blessing, wealth, and life. Nature and women, for Javanese men, are parts of men's existence and cosmic balance. It shows evidence of how ecofeminism criticism, which emphasises diversities on the relation and issues between humans, their environment, and their social contexts, in Javanese context should be applied differently to Western context. The poem displays a gender relation between husband and wife in Javanese household life which is different to the West. The implication of this finding may give a reference and direction towards the possibilities of Javanese ecofeminism further discussions and renegotiation of gender relation between men and women in Javanese society. To have a more comprehensive view of how Javanese patriarchy works, further research on other Javanese literary works is needed.
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