최화성의『조선여성독본』(1949) : 해방기 어떤 여성이 되어야하는가

Abstract

This article examines the contents and significance of Choi Hwa-sung (1923-?)'s The Reader of Joseon Women(1949). She was a young writer who published his thoughts and theories in newspapers and magazines as a socialist feminist until he defected to North Korea. The Reader of Joseon Women(1949) deserves attention in that it was published by Baekwoosa, the publishing company of avant-garde poet Kim Sang-hoon, with an epigraph by Kim Ki-rim. However, this book was more of a self-declaration that revealed what women we should become after the liberation period as elite women, rather than a general reading book for the public women. This was a socialist feminist theory that could only be proposed in the short moment of liberation when it was impossible to express it in the colonial and Cold War systems. However, Choi Hwa-sung was a newcomer who had not appeared before, and until now, exactly who she was still shrouded in mystery. It was recently revealed that she is the first daughter of Park Seung-ho, the chairman of the Independence Promotion Patriotic Women’s Association, which sparked the researcher's imagination. During the liberation period, the left-right ideological divergence occurred between mother and daughter, who are the young socialist feminist writer and the leader of the right-wing women's movement. This is also an unspoken part of the grand narratives that often appropriated the ideological struggle between fathers and sons or brothers as a national tragedy. Therefore, this article attempted to assess how women belonging to different generations reconstructed themselves ideologically during the historical transition period.