『萬國婦人』의 실패 요인과 젠더 양상

Abstract

“Wives over the World” was a women’s cultural magazine organized by Kim Donghwan for female students and young female readers of the time. It was an independent magazine from “Samcheonri”. the longest serving popular magazine in Japanese colonial era. For this reason, rather than an independent magazine, it can be seen that “Wives over the World” reflected the intention of “Samcheonri” company in the early 1930s. This study corrects errors on the abolition of the “Wives over the World” and finds the cause of the failure of the magazine is not the financial difficulties announced by “Samcehnri” company, but in the context of not grasping the gender aspects of the time. It contemplates the views of “Gender Regime” under the shadow of ‘world oriented’ and ‘the pursuit of universal knowledge’ in the first issue of “Wives over the World” and in the “Samcheonri” magazine’s “Wives over the World” column. Also, this study examines the deformity of the female representation imaged in the cover and advertisements of the “Wives over the World”. In addition, considering the fact that “Wives over the World” planned by ‘Samcehonri’ company was not a ‘woman over the world’ but as ‘wives over the world’, it proves the traces of appropriating the signifier of ‘female’ and ‘wives’ as intended by the editorial staff of “Samcehonri”. Especially, this phenomenon is notable in Lee Gwangsoo’s 「Ten Commandments of modern women, the Ten commandments of Young Women」. Henceforth, Ko Youngsook’s 「Thoughtless words of Lee Gwangsoo」, which criticized it, has been submitted and draws attention. This manuscript discuss between Lee Gwangsoo and Ko Youngsook, and critically reviews the representation of the ‘modern women’ that the intellectual group of the time wanted to standardize and explains the reason tor the failure of “Wives over the World”.