여훈서에 나타난 여성의 몸- 후쿠자와 유키치의 『여대학평론』을 중심으로

Abstract

I'd like to review how the subjection of women is represented in <Onna Daigaku>, and how Hukuzawa Yukichi criticizes it through discourses on the body of women. Womanly virtue discussed in the past times, discipline of the body of women was important. Also, Hukuzawa Yukichi, who asserts Japanese modern civilization and enlightenment, through the criticism of confucianism, emphasizes women's new awakening of their bodies as independent ones to be civilized. Because the principle of three obediences in confucianism means that a woman cannot be a master of herself. But I think even in his portrait of an independent woman he still has a controlling way of the body of a woman from the viewpoint of a modern nation. Because his <Nihon Hujinron> said that the reason a woman should be independent is to improve the Japanese race. Therefore, in this paper, I examined standpoints of how the body of a woman has been represented in a period of transition from the traditional age to the modern one through Hukuzawa Yukichi's criticism of The Book of Women's Education.