19세기 여성관련 범죄에 나타난 갈등양상과 사회적 특성 ―秋曹決獄錄을 중심으로―

Abstract

This study is conducted to examine conflicts among Joseon people and social characteristics through crimes in the 19th century of Joseon Dynasty. This study examined situations of female-related crimes and conflicts by focusing on female-related crimes during the 19th century in the criminal data Chujogyeoloklon . Female-related crimes were concealed only because the subjects were women. Therefore, discussions on the seriousness, prevention strategies, and certain discussions and institutions about handling methods were not shown in the 19th century. According to the criminal data Chujogyeoloklon ,women were absolutely a minority group preventing violence. Families and neighbors were the background and the target of female-related crimes. The conflicts shown in female-related crimes were divided into two types. First, conflicts and tension between usual family lives were expressed. In the family of Joseon Dynasty, women’s gender role was to raise and educate children, support a husband, take care of and protect parents in law, and hand down family culture. Conflicts in the family occurred when the women’s gender role was broken. Regarding the problem from conflicts between a married couple’s gender roles or when a wife failed to fulfill the role, a husband who is male expressed the conflict through violence. Second, women’s behaviors in female-related crimes were thoroughly monitored in the private area such as home, family, and labor space. Women’s activities were always supervised, and they got violently punished by the family and the husband according to the types of supervision. In particular, Confusion idea of Joseon Dynasty fixed women’s gender model as passivity, obedience, and chastity and regarded it as opposite category of ‘vice and virtue’ according to women’s behaviors through their gender activities. Women’s sexuality was often overlapped with crimes, and women’s perception of sexuality served as disadvantages or advantages sometimes at that time.