조선시대 사대부들의 여성문학 인식

Abstract

The Choseon Dynasty was a country founded on Sung Confucianism, and could not help being regulated from trivial routine to a matter of national importance. Especially regulations on women's life were made to the smallest detail. Women were little more than beings that were responsible for food and clothes of their family, served their parents-in-law, received a guest, performed an ancestral sacrifice, bore a son and inherited the family. It had more losses than gains that women acquired anything besides hand-weaving and managing their family affairs. Especially it was recognized very negative to the gentry that women pursued their studies and composed a poem. There are very few articles on women's poetry in a collection of illustrated poems written by the gentry, and through these, it is considered recognition of women's literature. The gentry did not appreciate women's literature equally to men's. First, unlike men's literature propagating teachings through literature, they recognized women's literature as an simple exhibition of talent. Second, they considered it admirable for uneducated women to compose a poem, but did not appreciate the value. Third, they considered it a pity for little work of women to remain, but had a strong tendency to recognize women's writing itself negative.