「정수정전」에 나타난 성 역할 인식의 변화 고찰

Abstract

Jeong Su‐jeong, the heroine of Jeongsujeongjeon, did not follow women’s life demanded by the Joseon society but suggested a new style of women’s life performing social roles. The change in the heroine’s perception of women’s social role is embodied through the internalization of masculinity that happens as the heroine disguises herself as a man, and is implemented into a new style of women’s life overturning the traditional view of women by rejecting women’s life demanded by the family, the society and the state. In this process, furthermore, there are conflicts over women’s social role with conservative figures. The social roles exhibited by Jeong Su‐jeong, the heroine of this work, are suggested in an extreme form, but change in women’s traditional role is accepted as the society and the state, which had been reluctant to acknowledge women’s social abilities, admit her abilities. As women’s new life and changes in their social role are revealed specifically in Jeongsujeongjeon, it is also suggested directly that the expression of women’s heroicity through disguise of a man is not necessary any longer. Accordingly, this novel is meaningful in that, different from other heroine novels, the process of change in the perception of women’s sex role is suggested concretely.