장선희의 독립 운동과 교육 활동

Abstract

During the colonial period, Korean women experienced a womanhood significantly different from the traditional ‘good wife and wise mother’ ideal of women under the patriarchy. Their experience was a constant trial and er- ror that emerged from alternating conflicts and alignments between, in one hand, the question of how to construct the self-identification as a woman that can overcome the patriarchy, and on the other, the question of con- structing the self as an active political citizen while being of the colonial Chosun. For Jang, the world of embroidery laid a bridge between her problems of ethnicity and femininity and allowed for her to solve both in sublimation. Through embroidery, she not only transcended her pain but also the pain of our people into an art, while beautifully living this cruel period. Jang’s life brings much encouragement and insight to Korean women of today who still experiments with entangled identities of nationality, gender, and status.