딸들의 한국전쟁- 결혼과 섹슈얼리티를 중심으로 본 미혼여성들의 한국전쟁경험 -

Abstract

No individual life is free from social and historical change. War is one of the strongest factors which occur changes in society in a great scale. The effects of war on individual lives seem to be various according to such conditions as gender, age, social backgrounds and so forth. This paper examines the effects of Korean war on women’s lives based on oral histories of seven women who experienced the Korean War as unmarried and nineteen to twenty-five year old girls. Especially, this study focuses on the ways in which the Korean War affected marriages and sexualities of these unmarried women. The oral history interviews conducted on these seven women show the ways in which women experience love and marriage, and also the process and characteristics that they select spouses and decide their marriage by the war in terms of timing and motives of marriage, and occupations of spouses. Besides, this study looks into the ways in which their family and parents consider their daughter’s marriage as a family strategy in the social dislocation of wartime. Moreover, it examines how these women remembers their marriage life in relation to war and give meanings to their lives. Exploring these matters through women’s oral history, this paper attempts to explore the characteristics of marriage and sexuality during the Korean war and the effects of the war made to women who experienced the war in their marriageable age compared to other generation of women.