The Poppy War was the first novel written by Rebecca F. Kuang described feminism in which women can be free in her social role, just like men do. The movement of liberal feminism still exists all over the world bringing some characteristics of liberal values. Hence this research aims to describe the characteristics of liberal feminism and to analyze the struggles of the main character in fighting against the dominance of men's roles in society. She has a dream of studying at Sinegard Academy.
This research was under qualitative descriptive research. The primary data were from the narratives and dialogues of the novel. Meanwhile the secondary data were cited from articles, books, and other online-sources. Some steps in this research were started by compiling the data, identifying, classifying, reducing and analyzing the data supported by the theory of liberal feminism. By reading the novel several times, the researcher took some key words and notes correlated with the problem formulation in the research and answered those problems by qualitative method.
The results of this research are divided into two: the characteristics of liberal feminism shown by the main character, i.e. the forms of liberal equality, rights equality, and education equality. Apart from that, this research also found that there are three struggles experienced by Rin, the main character, as follows: opportunities, recognition, and removing her feminine side. This research provides us with suggestions to keep our spirit and motivation up in order to bring about our dreams in the future.

Keywords: Liberal feminism, The Poppy War, Woman struggles