摘要:This study examines the career women who use the habit of treating the body through the routine ofcoming to spas, which aims to overcome the dominance of patriarchy. This study uses several concepts. First,muted group theory, which states that woman, is the one that silenced; so to overcome this condition, womenshould perform self-transformation. The transformation is aligned with the second concept, feministexistentialist, which defines the transformation as the change of a woman concept from Other to Self. Thetransformation can be achieved not only by working outside the domestic sphere, but also supported by a goodappearance through a complete body treatment. Grooming habits acquired through socialization that derived inwoman since their childhood. The socialization is about how women as a person who is considered weak by theworld of patriarchal domination using the power of their beauty to master, subdue, and break the domination inher life. Then, with their good appearance, woman can express their existence in everything that they do fromobject become subject. Spa and the whole result of the activities contained in it then consciously become a wayof resistance that being used by the career woman against the domination of patriarchy which overshadowingtheir lives
关键词:spa; career women; patriarchy domination; feminism