섹슈얼리티, 여성, 마더후드-이태준의『성모』에 나타난 ‘성애’와 ‘모성애’에 대하여-

Abstract

Lee, Tae‑jun's “Great Mother” shows an existential struggle of a woman who succeeded in healing the fatal damage to her’s own life by modern patriarchal system. She finds a task of the age through the moral choice to convert maternity into motherhood, despite of feminine difficulties that accompanied a sexual desire of the times. And she finally gains feminine self‑esteem. There is no doubt that a moral choice and an existential struggle shown by the heroine of “Great Mother” is a product of a virtuous determination resulting from a very active motive. One might point out that the will is consequences of unwilling adaptation of the helpless woman who was subordinated to patriarchal ideology and myth of maternity(motherhood). However, it is an undeniable fact that a strong criticism on sexism based on essentialism is above all the existential status that she gained through implementation of socio‑cultural maternity as child education, rather than simple biological maternity of childbirth and parenting. A moral reality in relationship between men and women that we have noticed in Lee, Tae‑jun's novel reveals a part that was never recognized as a discourse of maternity(motherhood) myth solidified by a reductionist magic of feminism politics. According to “Great Mother”, maternity(motherhood) or motherly love is not just the basis for making it dependent on a general male including her husband. It is also a realm of possibility that women themselves can secure their social status stately. In Lee, Tae‑jun's “Great Mother”, maternity(motherhood) is both exploitative maternity of patriarchal project that represses women and healing motherhood as a strategic base that actively reconstructs women themselves. In the middle of factors that cause oppression and liberation to cross each other around maternity(motherhood), there is a ‘woman's work’ called ‘child education’.