Abstract—This paper aims to reveal the background of text and
implied messages that Shekh Abdul Laṭīf Shakūr wanted to convey
as an ulama and a man towards women who lived in a society with
matrilineal kinship system in Minangkabau. This study used the
theory of Genetic Structuralism Lucien Goldmann with dialectic
method. The result of the research showed that there was a
structure formed by Shekh Abdul Laṭīf Shakūr through his
writings so that women, especially women of Minangkabau, had
strong personality and were able to think logically for every
problem that they had to cope with. He wantd Minangkabau’s
women to have a firm principle even though adat forces often
bound them to always be passive with their wedding. This was
because their future had been determined by the matrilineal
family. The presence of the manuscript of the Dunia Perempuan
was an antithesis to the problems faced by Minangkabau’s women
to balance the application of adat and sharia in Minangkabau adat
philosophy completely.
Keywords—woman, Minangkabau, matrilineal