조선 및 근대 여권사상에 나타나는 진취성과 자기유폐 - 남성중심 이데올로기와 여성의 주체성 확보 사이의 갈등과 타협을 중심으로

Abstract

Noblemen in Choseon Dynasty considered Yang(Movements) represent men and Ying(Standstill) represent women. Following this dichotomy, women were forced to being obedient to men. In The Private instructions(內訓), however, it was argued that men representing Yang and women representing Ying are equal and they have just different role according to different identity. While this argument secured the women’s independent identity, it also confined women to the passive nature. New women in the Modern era denied an obedient life to men and tried to find out independent and initiative life based on the thought of sexual equality. Some radical liberal new women denied the concept of sexual fidelity which was only imposed to women and favored a free love. But they didn't overthrow the concept of sexual fidelity which supported by male-centered conventional marriage system and just became an concubine of men. On the other hand, some socialist new women asserted that women have been slaves of capitalism and androcentrism and by the law of historical development, capitalism and androcentrism would be destroyed. In this context, the role of women were just to support the historical development. The thought of women’s right in Choseon Dynasty and Modern Korea were results of resistance or backlash against the traditional system. But the thinkers didn’t make an issue on the whole system and they just tried to secure some slight space in the system leading to confine themselves in the narrow crack.