This research aims to analyze the patriarchal system in Bridgerton's Series The Duke and I season one by Chris Van Dusen. The objective of this research is to find out the aspects of the structure of patriarchy on the women character in Bridgerton's Series The Duke and I season one and to analyze the women's struggle against patriarchy in Bridgerton's Series The Duke and I. This research focuses on five characters, namely Daphne Bridgerton, Eloise Bridgerton, Penelope Featherington or Lady Whistledown, Sienna Rosso, and Sarah Basset. This research used the theory of patriarchal structure from Sylvia Walby with the sociology of literature perspective and women’s struggle from Simone de Beauvoir to get comprehensive understanding.
Qualitative descriptive research was used in this final project. Several steps were taken in data collection such as watching the series, reading the script, identifying data, classifying data, and analyzing the data.
After analyzing the women in Bridgerton's Series The Duke and I season one, the researcher finds four aspects from six of the structure of patriarchy and four struggle against patriarchy. Four aspect of the structure of patriarchy include: patriarchal mode of household production, cultural, sexuality, male’s violence, state. In addition, the women in Bridgerton's Series The Duke and I season one made four struggle to against patriarchy, which are: women can work, women can become intellectuals, women can work to achieve a socialist transformation of society¸ and transcend its boundaries.
Keywords: patriarchy, structure, women struggle, Bridgerton's Series The Duke and I season one, Sylvia Walby