소혜황후의 불교옹호발언과 젠더권력관계

Abstract

Scarcity of materials and historical records is one of big problems in studies of women's literary history, especially of the Middle Ages. Therefore, to make the best use of the remained records is very important in this field. The True Record of the Chosŏn Dynasty(朝鮮王朝實錄) is one of important sources for women's study. As women's Korean writing in the early of Chosŏn Dynasty, few had been known except of Naehun(內訓), a women's conduct book written by Queen So-hye(昭惠王后, 1437~1504), since my having found several examples of Queen's writing in The True Record of the Chosŏn Dynasty. I've tried to find historical records about women's literary history in it and this monography is another report of the research, too. Out of The True Record of the Chosŏn Dynasty, I tried to re-organize a period of literary history with records about troubles between Queen So-hye and male statesmen. The cause of troubles seem to be their disagreement of religion and her disobedience of women's conduct rule in Middle Ages that she must not consist of her own opinion against men's, especially about political matters. By speaking and writing, Queen So-hye declared her opinion for Buddhism against Confucian male statesmen, who blamed her for political intervention of a queen. I also tried to construct the meaning of their conflicts as gender troubles in literary life in the late of 15th Century, when women had just have their own letter, Hangeul, to express more easily their own thought or feeling.