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Features of Korean Feminist Design Studies: 1970~2018 (국내 페미니스트 디자인 연구의 특징: 1970~2018)

  • Kim, Lynn;Park, Soo-Jin
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.10 no.10
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    • pp.91-97
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    • 2019
  • In recent years, as feminism has emerged as a main value in Korean society, related design studies are also increasing. This research archived domestic feminist design studies to provide researchers with a genealogy of feminist design research. The research defines 'feminist design' prior to the collection of domestic feminist design studies, and examine the British-American history of the feminist design studies as an origin of the term. As a feature of the period, the number of feminist design studies surged in 1999, and since the 2000s, an average of 5.1 studies have been published annually. As a feature of each field, there were a lot of studies in fashion, visual, architecture, design science, product order in the whole studies. Feminist design researchers accumulate discourse on a clear line of studies and hope that this research will be renewed in the not too distant future.

A Study on the Relationship Between Feminist Art and Fashion in Modern Chinese Art Era

  • Xing, Zhang;Kan, Hosup
    • Journal of Fashion Business
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.18-45
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    • 2020
  • Feminist artists are special in Chinese modern art. Sticking to their own artistic ideas, they constantly emphasize women's psychological characteristics and aesthetic values in their works under the background of modern society. Since feminism was introduced into China from western arts in the 1970s, it has greatly inspired Chinese female artists. This study used comparative analysis and correlation analysis to establish the connection between the works of local Chinese female artists and modern women's wear design, this connection is the common language form of Chinese female artists and modern fashion designers when expressing female psychology and aesthetics. This is a way for Chinese female artists to seek dialogue with Western and global female art, and the development characteristics of the localization of feminism in Chinese art and design. The significance of the research is to improve the international artistic atmosphere of Chinese feminist art and instill a new understanding of Chinese feminist art in the world.

Analysis on Visual Grammar of Female Images in Cover of Feminist Magazine Covers (페미니스트 잡지 표지 사진의 여성 이미지에 대한 시각 문법 분석)

  • Joo, Hae-Rin;Park, Soo-Jin
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.12 no.11
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    • pp.275-284
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    • 2021
  • This study analyzes the characteristics regarding the image of women in feminist magazine covers. Along with fundamental analysis of the female image that appeared on the covers of feminist magazines and the grammar of visual design by Kress and van Leeuwen, a methodology of socio semiotic research, this study explores the structure and driving principles of symbols that have organized female images. The subject of analysis is set to 200 covers of magazines published from the 1960s to the 2010s. Through analysis, first, female images represented in the covers of feminist magazines showed women of various races, age groups, appearances, and occupations, and the degree od emphasis on the physique was fewer and natural-looking. Second, the study confirms that feminist magazines actively utilize representational and interactive metafunctions to deliver symbolic information such as messages of confidence, strength, and courage. Third, the organized symbols affected the recipient's understanding and interpretation of images. I hope this study helps to contemplate ways to express female images and the dynamic and diverse aspects of women.

The ambivalence of corset: Post-feminism perspectives (코르셋의 양면성에 관한 고찰 - 포스트페미니즘 시각을 중심으로 -)

  • Yim, Eun-Hyuk
    • Journal of the Korea Fashion and Costume Design Association
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.17-30
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    • 2018
  • This study discusses the ambivalence and ambiguity in the relationship between the women's body and fashion drawings in respect to post-feminism perspectives. Deconstructivist post-feminists, perceiving the body as a passive subject, asserted that women internalize the male gaze by becoming the object of male desire, then manipulate the body to conform to that ideal. In this perspective, corsets assumed the role of the tool for forcing women's body to be obedient, restraining and suppressing the body. On the other hand, in the essentialist post-feminist perspective, which regards the women's body as an active object, insists that fashion, in its essence, is not necessarily about sex, nor is it devised to attract the male gaze. In such a viewpoint, the women's body functions as a vehicle for empowerment; by wearing corset women gain power and embraces the cultural norms of dominant beauty. As investigated in this study, the corset is both a tool for oppressing the women's body, as well as a vehicle for the voluntary expression of femininity. This ambivalence in the perception of the corset in the post-feminist theory represents the double-sided perspective in fashion as being both a subordinate construction and a powerful tool for self-expression.

A Study on the deconstructionist feminist architecture of Zaha Hadid (자하 하디드의 탈구조주의적 페미니즘 건축에 관한 연구)

  • Lee Ran-Pyo
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.14 no.5 s.52
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    • pp.133-140
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    • 2005
  • Jacques Derrida, a leading theorist of the post-structuralism, has explicated how the material reality is subordinated to the ideality of form, by noticing the platonic concept, 'chora', which implicates the spatiality as the matrix and also by actualizing its essential meaning as the femininity. On the basis of the idea of the platonic 'chora', the Derridian deconstructive spatiality and its feminist oriented enlargement of Grosz this study is purposed to elucidate the architectural idea of Zaha Hadid that is located in the similar horizon with the deconstructionism. On the one hand it is focused on the explication of the new concept of space, which is dealt with the deconstruction of the traditional concept of space, on the other on the inference of the feminity of the originally understood spatiality. With this inference it is finally intended to reexamine the foundation of the discussion for the architectural space that must be ahead of the discussion for the difference between the masculine and the feminine space. If it is fundamentally and manifoldly executed, not only the architectural paradigm will enter into an renewed phase, but also the various ways toward the new direction of the architecture be explored.

Reality of Housing for Multi-Cultural Families from the Perspectives of Social Constructionism and Critical Social Constructionism (사회구성주의와 비판적 사회구성주의 관점으로 본 다문화가정 주거의 실재)

  • Hong, Hyung Ock
    • Human Ecology Research
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    • v.52 no.6
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    • pp.573-586
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study was to review the conceptual framework of social constructionism and critical social constructionism in the research area of multi-cultural family homes, using a literature review. Fopp argued that social constructionism had an objectivation problem that only considered the actor side as a policy object; therefore he suggested a weaker social constructionist perspective with moderate relativism and the application of feminist epistemology to marginal life for maximizing objectivity. This article explores a conceptual framework for studying the reality of housing of multi-cultural families in Korea in the light of constructionist ideas and presents a review of empirical positivist data to support the framework. Based on results, using the social constructionist framework, five contexts (structural, institutional, organizational, operational, and intersubjective) were reviewed and ideas were suggested to develop an appropriate future situation for multi-cultural family homes. For a weaker social constructionist framework, three National Survey of Multi-Cultural Family Homes data sets were reviewed to determine the real condition of multi-cultural family homes. Further, from a feminist perspective, the empirical data of marginalized multi-cultural family homes were reviewed from the perspectives of gender inequality of decision making, cultural adaptation, and differentiation in housing related areas. In conclusion, two perspectives were useful for understanding multi-cultural family housing in Korea but must be compensated with substantial empirical data for a holistic approach.

Approaches to and Issues in Research on Multi-Cultural Family Homes (다문화가정 주거의 연구를 위한 접근방법과 쟁점)

  • Hong, Hyung Ock
    • Human Ecology Research
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    • v.51 no.6
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    • pp.649-663
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    • 2013
  • As cultural diversity has gained a great deal of attention and the social fabric of Korean society is redefined, the number of studies on multi-cultural family homes has been growing in the area of human ecology, but relevant research is rarely found on the subject of housing. While the emphasis of housing research is on multidisciplinary approaches and empirical research is highly valued, a theoretical and methodological platform for discussing the new rising agenda of multi-cultural family homes is lacking. The purpose of this study was to explore approaches to and to discuss the issues in research for multi-cultural family homes in terms of housing theories and multidisciplinary approaches. To understand the housing related needs of multi-cultural families, this study highlights social constructionism, the ecological perspective, and feminist epistemology. These three multidisciplinary approaches were useful for generating an ontological analysis of multi-cultural family homes. Further, this study highlights two housing related theories, the microsociological and housing pathways approaches, for dealing with multi-cultural family homes. In conclusion, the five approaches were useful for exploring issues in housing research on multi-cultural family homes with appropriate research methods like hermeneutics, quantitative, and qualitative methods, and field research. Insights into using perspectives and holistic approaches might be useful for solving the problems of multi-cultural family homes in Korea.

Feminist Expression Analysis of Modern Commercial Movies (Focusing on "Micro-habitat(2017)") (현대 상업영화의 페미니즘 표현분석연구 (영화 "소공녀(2017)"을 중심으로))

  • Lee, Tae-Hoon
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.17 no.10
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    • pp.439-446
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    • 2019
  • Feminism on the theme of gender equality is emerging as an important issue in the overall Korean culture. Feminism is not only a level of claiming or advocating women's rights, but an essential subject of gaze and thought, not a distorted, artificially portrayed image of women distorted or typified in a story created by men in the past It is a film that explores the problem of the individual's life in society fundamentally. Jun Koeun's movie' 'micro-habitat'(2018) 'expresses a feminist theme that shows a strong self - selection and transcendental thinking in male - oriented stereotypes and inequal social structure. The film, which focuses on the public insight into society and the enhancement of the ideal human being from the viewpoint that the public film should lead the educated enlightenment character that raises the broad insight into the world and lead the mature social culture, I think it will play a big role.

The aspects of women's play and Eomeoni(Mother) of Geugyesuryeonguho(극예술연구회) (극예술연구회 <어머니>와 여성 연극의 양상)

  • Kim, Nam-seok
    • (The) Research of the performance art and culture
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    • no.41
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    • pp.39-67
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    • 2020
  • So far, research on the 10th performance of the Geukye Suryeonguhoe has been rarely conducted. In particular, Lee Seo-hyang's Eomeoni was rarely studied, and it was only recorded that at most it was one of the 10th performances. Although the script of Eomeoni remains, and the 10th performance was an important regular performance, it should be said that the status of this research is very poor. It seems to be the result of failing to accurately examine the historical value and meaning of the single act drama Eomeoni. In order to solve these problems, it is necessary to look at the performance situation of Eomeoni and to investigate the situation at the time of Geugyesuryeonguhoe. In addition, the reason for selecting Eomeoni, the stage performance situation, theatrical elements, stage design, and related evaluations should be analyzed throughout. This study focused on examining the status of Eomeoni's performance and examining its significance, and intends to examine the flow of feminist play as a context of the Geeugyesuryeonguhoe through the conclusion.