케이트는 왜 길들여졌을까?: 『말괄량이 길들이기』에 반영된 여성육체의 통제를 위한 영국 초기현대의 성적 담론과 의학
Why Was Kate Tamed?: English Early Modern Sexual Discourse and Medical Science to Control Female Body
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The goal of this paper is to examine the English early modern sexual discourse and medical science which were used to rationalize taming Katherina through seemingly violent ways in The Taming of the Shrew. Beyond its conventional comic scheme, the play, as a cultural construct, tacitly supports the Renaissance patriarchal notions on women. Katherina represents either a disorderly woman or one of learned women who challenged restrictions on women’s economic, political, and social pursuits in the early modern era. The English Renaissance cultural notions on women seem not much different with those of the Medieval sexual discourses. During the English Renaissance, the Greek medical theories were introduced, but those theories were often used to reinforce the conventional patriarchism. Greek physiologists such as Aristotle and Galen argued that the female body was inferior to the male, and they tried to prove it through various anatomic theories and experiments. The medical theories were conveniently adopted to the patriarchic discourses. The taming contents, in which Petruchio wishes to recover the right supremacy in ruling his family by killing Katherina’s headstrong shrewish personality, seem to be related to the Renaissance medical theories which define women as an inferior sex. She tries to resist being tamed, but her efforts are often derided or trivialized. In the end, she accepts Petruchio’s patriarchal dominance, and her marriage seems to conclude peacefully and happily. However, the peace and happiness of the marriage are not for her, only for her husband Petruchio. She chooses to get tamed in order to survive the world of misogyny where disorderly women must be tamed.
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The goal of this paper is to examine the English early modern sexual discourse and medical science which were used to rationalize taming Katherina through seemingly violent ways in The Taming of the Shrew. Beyond its conventional comic scheme, the play, as a cultural construct, tacitly supports the Renaissance patriarchal notions on women. Katherina represents either a disorderly woman or one of learned women who challenged restrictions on women’s economic, political, and social pursuits in the early modern era. The English Renaissance cultural notions on women seem not much different with those of the Medieval sexual discourses. During the English Renaissance, the Greek medical theories were introduced, but those theories were often used to reinforce the conventional patriarchism. Greek physiologists such as Aristotle and Galen argued that the female body was inferior to the male, and they tried to prove it through various anatomic theories and experiments. The medical theories were conveniently adopted to the patriarchic discourses. The taming contents, in which Petruchio wishes to recover the right supremacy in ruling his family by killing Katherina’s headstrong shrewish personality, seem to be related to the Renaissance medical theories which define women as an inferior sex. She tries to resist being tamed, but her efforts are often derided or trivialized. In the end, she accepts Petruchio’s patriarchal dominance, and her marriage seems to conclude peacefully and happily. However, the peace and happiness of the marriage are not for her, only for her husband Petruchio. She chooses to get tamed in order to survive the world of misogyny where disorderly women must be tamed.
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