Tesis ini menelusuri pengalaman perempuan penyintas korban perkawinan anak dipaksa memasuki lembaga perkawinan pada usia anak. Peneliti menelusuri bagaimana perempuan penyintas perkawinan anak yang berasal dari Sekolah Perempuan mendapatkan akses pengetahuan umum, baik pendidikan formal maupun informal. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mempelajari perempuan dewasa penyintas korban perkawinan anak mampu mengatasi berbagai masalah terkait dampak perkawinan anak serta bagaimana mereka membangun otonomi dan kebahagiaan melalui akses pengetahuan formal dan informal dalam kehidupannya kemudian dielaborasi dengan teori Shulamith Firestone dan Sara Ahmed. Peneliti menggunakan metode penelitian wawancara dan dengan instrumen penelitian berupa daftar pertanyaan detail, kemudian dimasukkan ke dalam padatan faktual, kategori dan tema. Hasil penelitian menyimpulkan keempat subjek penelitian mempunyai pengalaman pahit yang tergambar dengan tindak kekerasan seksual. Pengabaian dari suami dan mertua subjek penelitian yang semestinya perempuan penyintas perkawinan anak tersebut mendapatkan tempat aman dan ruang kasih sayang. Beberapa subjek penelitian mengalami kendala akses atas pengurusan administrasi. Akses subjek terhadap pengetahuan umum dan tentang kesehatan reproduksi menjadi penting ketika akses tersebut terhubung dengan percakapan perempuan dewasa korban pernikahan anak dengan petugas kesehatan. Dua perempuan dewasa korban perkawinan anak mendapatkan privilege karena pernah mengecap sekolah perempuan yang merupakan respons atas dasar pilihannya secara mandiri.

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This thesis explores the experience of female survivors of child marriage being forced to enter marriage institutions. The researcher explores how women survivors of child marriage from Sekolah Perempuan gain access to general knowledge, both formal and informal education. The purpose of this research is to study that adult women who are victims of child marriage are able to overcome various problems related to the impact of child marriage and how they build autonomy and happiness through access to formal and informal knowledge in their lives and then I elaborated based on theory of Shulamith Firestone and Sara Ahmed. Researcher used interview research methods and research instruments such as list form that contained some detailed questions, then put them into factual solids, categories and themes. The results of the study concluded that the four research subjects had bitter experiences depicted by acts of sexual violence. The neglect of the husband and in-laws of the research subjects, which should have women who survived child marriages, got a safe place and a space of love. Some research subjects experience problems with access to administrative management. Subject access to general knowledge and about reproductive health becomes important when those access were connected with consultation of adult women victims of child marriage with health workers. Two adult women who are victims of child marriages got privileged because they have experienced Sekolah Perempuan which are a response based on their independent choices.