근대소설에 나타난 여학생의 신체 연구

Abstract

In this study, how the bodies of girl students in the colonial mordernera were depicted as modern women is investigated through the aspects of their bodies appeared in novels and discourses. Especially the relationship between bodies regulated in discourses and physical bodies is investigated to look into a process of the girls' forming their identity. Girls appeared in novels of the 1920-30s were influenced by Christianity and developed psychology of asceticism, sexual morality and a-good -wife-and-wise-mother complex, and experienced a confusion of morality and value when free love went in fads. Girls who got knowledge and ability to control their bodies from books and physical exercise pursued free love. However, pathological discourse of the womb and menstruationmade girls become ashamed of their sexuality and the bodies of girls who lost their virginity were depictedas the body of Thanatos who died of disease. After the mid 1930s, bodies of female students were depictedas bodies of bourgeois which were adorned by makeup and retrained by pure blood and chastity complex. In novels, girls who kept their chastity achieved happy marriage and girls who didn't failed in theirmarriage, which tended to constrain their sexuality. In colonial mordernera, bodies of girls became stronger and westernized but their function was limited to looking after their families and raising children, and control and suppression were imposed on those who tried to go beyond the limit. Such stories created hierarchy of sex and sexuality and proved that a novel functioned as a discourse on a body, and showed that bodies of girl students became the essential object which constructed gender of modern women.