근대 일본 미디어에 나타난 신여성 논의의 지형

Abstract

The interest of this passage is based on the discussion of New Women produced and distributed by the modern Japanese papers,magazines, and medias. It is focused on who catagorized and essentialized it with what intention, furthermore, where did the cause originate if the discussion of New Women didn’t appear homogenized, and also, what implication it had when compared to Chosun Colony at the same period, then what the unique situation was of Japanese gender. It seems densely that the argument of New Women, unfolded in modern Japan, was planned and measured within the boundary of civil nation. Of course, ‘the good wife and wise mother’ and ‘maternal instinct’was applied as resource for that good idea. First, the discussion surrounding New Women, planned and distributed by the major medias like 「Taiyo」, 「Shincho」, pointed out that it may seem like the discussion was divided into pros and cons, but it actually connoted the common aspects on maintaining or enhancing the existing social norm centered on men and the order of gender solidly whether they are pros or cons. We can see here the point, that the producer of this argument was masculine,was greatly active. However, form the floor where women present themselves on their main thoughts appeared without an exception. In other word, the argument that New Women produced were not fully free from patriarchical ideology mentioned above even if New Women themselves tried enthusiastically expressed the argument, such as chastity, abortion, contraception, or prostitution, to gain their independence left huge legacy in liberation of women in Japan. It is a bigger problem when this aspect, the unique situation of Japanese gender, is contrasted to the Chosun Colony of same period. For instance, let’s say the New Women of Chosun Colony claimed explicitly that woman should be limited to role of ‘the good wife and good mother’as the instrument for the independence of people by ratifying the category, ‘remaking the people’, which was a trend, as it was, and resolve the reality of colony, but in Japan,though their attitude looked irrelevant to the ‘nation’, by enhancing the idea of ‘the good wife and good mother’into fabricated ideas such as ‘People’s Mother’ or ‘Nationally Maternal Instinct’, they firmly supported the ideology of ruling by androcentrist and imperialism. It is to say that it exposed more complex aspects than the gender rank, that cannot be explained by the New Women argument.