야만의 표상으로서의 여성 소수자들 - 『제국신문』에 나타난 첩, 무녀, 기생 담론을 중심으로

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to inquire the discourses on the women minority groups including the concubine, female shaman and prostitute shown in "Cheguk Sinmun (The Journal of Empire)" to analyze the aspects of how the women have been placed and differentiated within the discourses of enlightenment. Through dealing with the theme, we could examine the status and role of the women who were alienated from the discourses of enlightenment in the early modern period and confirm the fact that the discourses of enlightenment were activated differently within the diverse women groups. The women minority groups were treated as the vulgar object who ran counter to the civilizing project by the enlightenment intellectuals. This kind of tone was shared among the enlightenment journals of that period such as "Dokrip Sinmun", "Hwangsung Sinmun" or "Daehan Maeilsinbo" which was published afterward. Basically the view toward the women minority groups was the product of 'being nation project' and 'civilizing project' cause the enlightenment intellectuals who leaded the journalism made the sexuality and customs into the object of regulation and reformation. This paper tried to observe the differences within the discourses on the enlightenment which were classified by the gender, class and media and the gap between the old and new intelligences. The discourses on the women minority groups illustrate the proper case to inquire the interactions within the discourses of enlightenment judging from the process by which the traditional minority groups were transformed into the savage object as well as the disclosure of differences among diverse women groups. Furthermore, the discourses on the women minority groups will provide with the opportunities to look into the differences among diverse women groups to those who have regarded the women as same one subject.