1980년대 여성 잡지의 도시빈민여성 형상화와 그 의미

Abstract

The 1980s saw rapid urban development while the popular movements and pro-democracy movements peaked. The military dictatorship took ambivalent attitude of inspection and liberalization toward the public which eventually generated diverse communities of academic activities while media that delivered their respective ideologies sprang up. Women’s studies and feminist movements grew along with the mainstream around 1985. Hence, this paper highlights how “the poor” or “movement”, another key words that indicate the period, were resonated with the directivity of the feminist liberation manifested in the publications by the academia of women’s studies and feminist movements. Accordingly, the newsletters issued by female activists and the academic journals published by academic groups, the majority of which was female intellectuals were collected. Among them, the articles that shedded lights on women’s fight for their right to live and issues in their daily life were analyzed. Based on the analysis, it contemplated the rediscovered and visualized daily life of women in poverty, the aspects and values of their protests in the 1980s. In addition, it aims to examine how the women in poverty were configured in Yeoseongdonga(Women’s Donga) and Yeoseongjungang(Women’s Jungang), commercial magazines that targeted general female public. This study pieces together the tendencies of coeval women’s magazines in different forms with divergent ideologies and social positions of the publishers and editors. Therefore, it attempts to construe the life of women in poverty and their transformational movements as a whole that were embodied in diverse texts of the 1980s and determine its significance.