• 비교문화연구
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• 제30권
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• pp.53-71
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• 2013

The aim of this study is to compare and analyze the similarities and differences in traditional perspective about women between Algery and Korea. Through this study, we found out following common denominators: sexual discrimination and denigration of women. Under the patriarchal system in Korea and Algery in the past, women were considered to be inferior to men and treated as men's possessions. The noteworthy feature is the perspective of mother. In both countries, the image of woman as a mother is regarded as the source of life and a central axis leading our society. It is very remarkable that we could find a lot of common ground despite that there are a lot of social, cultural and geometrical differences. Therefore, through this study, it is proved that the proverbs tell us the universality among people in the world regardless of culture and region.

• 미국학
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.25-56
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• 2020

The essay examines two contemporary American plays that portray adult Korean American adoptees' return to South Korea: How to Be a Korean Woman (2012) by Sunmee Chomet and Middle Brother (2014) by Eric Sharp. While the existing scholarship on transnational adoption has discussed homecoming as a predominantly female experience of birth mothers and daughters, Chomet and Sharp suggest the differing ways in which the adoptee subjectivity is re-imagined in particularly gendered ways after homecoming. In these plays, adult adoptees' repeated, mundane bodily performances of Korean cultural norms illustrate how notions of femininity and masculinity are inscribed onto the body of adoptee individuals under the patriarchal system. Such performative construction of Korean-ness departs from the earlier theatrical representations of young, adolescent adoptees' homecoming that served as a symbolic rite of passage, a necessary process through which they would gain cultural hybridity and mature into cosmopolitan American-ness.

• 한국생활과학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.29-43
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• 1999

This study was carried out to investigate the view of the choice of spouse and marriage of unmarried women's college students. Most respondents in this study think that the optimum age for marriage is 27 and prefer a seniority in age of 3-4 years who feels in love as the future husband. Also, they wish that the job of future husband be a technical expert. Approximately 63% of respondents recognize the necessity of marriage but 38% of respondents do not show a positive opinion for marriage. They also expect the emotional stabilization or partnership from marriage. Majority of respondents show a negative response to the marriage as means to solve economic difficulties. However, only 25.9% of respondents strongly show the negative opinion. In the acquaintance of the opposite sex in the purpose for marriage, most respondent are negative. However, they are positive in keeping virginal purity prior to marriage. Also, it has revealed that respondents want a partnership through allotment in domestic duties including baby sitting rather than household management through patriarchal system. In household economy, they prefer sharing living expenses and having a job after marriage. In choosing an ideal husband, although the academic background is considered as an important factor, but the present occupation is more important than the academic background. Also, one of the priority to choosing a spouse is influenced by each household circumstance and economic balance. About half of respondents want their parents-in-law to be alive, however, few respondents want to live together with parents-in-law.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.67-75
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• 1980

Natural increase rate in population is reached to 1.7% in 1975 fron 2.5% in 1966 because of the effect of Govermental Family Planning Program. The average number of present children and ideal children is just the same, 2.4 people, in this investigation. So, I assume that the number of present and ideal children is approaching each other. The rate of unmarried female workers who don't know even one thing about the know ledge of contraception was 23.9%, and especially that of rural women was 31.5% and 41.3% of them has never experienced contraception. 'Boy-preference' presented 60.1% of unmarried female workers and 79.1% of married women. 'Connection of a family line' related to 'Transfer to next generation of a family line' presented 38.0% and 'Trustworthiness' related to 'Leadership of a family' presented 26.0% (total 64.0%). As this point, Ive can find that this rate reveals the traditional sense of patriarchal system in society and family. The rate of women of experienced artificial abortion has been 52.1% and that of women using it as birth control caused by 'Many children' and 'Short brith-interval' 46.6% of women of experienced pregnancy. So, we can see that artificial abortion is a main cause of Maternal Health destruction.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제35권
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• pp.59-78
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• 2014

This article is written on the ground that one of the major characteristics of Chinese New Period women's novels is about family dissolution and calling and it is examined based on analysis of "The Bathing Woman" by Tie Ning. In "The Bathing Woman", the family seems 'Regular' externally but it is actually fragmented internally. The author offers patriarchal perspective on 'Family' from the eyes of daughter of the family. The problems are classified into three categories. First, it is the problem of exclusiveness embedded in the essential characteristic of family represented by blood relation. Second, it is the research on the reason for family dissolution. Tie Ning finds the reason at 'Unmotherly mother, that is the lack of maternal instinct. Third, it is the expectation of the restoration of dissolved family. Tie Ning's indication of 'Family' is equal to 'Mother' and 'Mother' is the source and power that can heal and restore the dissolved family in her novel. It is expansion of maternal instinct represented by protection and caring into 'Practical action' and it is meaningful in a way that it expands the principle of maternal instinct and sublimates it into universal morality. However, it should not be overlooked that it could be another moral system that could suppress the females in other ways.

• 동남아시아연구
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.171-199
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• 2012

Saman, a novel written by Ayu Utami, has been recognized as the symbol of the politico-social changes, which began to occur since the collapse of Suharto' New Order regime in 1998. In the novel, Ayu Utami showed the spirits of resistance against various absurd socio-political circumstances during the New Order era such as pressure on discussion, abuse of power, politics-business collusion, patriarchism, and suppression of gender. In representing those spirits, Ayu Utami used unconventional structure-making, fresh feedback and multilayered descriptions of the figures, which brought her a fame as the pioneer of the Fragrant Literature (Angkatan Wangi or chick-lit). Ayu Utami particularly criticized that, under the name of sustaining the national integrity and identity, the New Order regime enhanced patriarchal system, which consequently infringed gender equality and women's rights to self-determination. In addition, Ayu Utami argued that the abuse of power and politics-business collusion, which were prevalent during the New Order period, destroyed lives of the masses and the Indonesian society.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.181-186
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• 2022

지금까지 한국 사회에서 성차별적인 문화는 아주 보편적인 문화현상으로 자연스럽게 받아들여져 왔다. 남성의 우월성은 인정하면서, 여성의 보조적인 역할은 마치 상호보완적인 측면에서 반드시 필요한 것으로 합리화하였다. 21세기 주역이 되는 현재 세대들이 성 고정관념과 편견의 악순환적인 고리를 끊을 것으로 기대해보며, 그들이 성차별적인 편견을 해소할 수 있을 때 비로소 인간성의 회복을 맞게 될 것이다. 성차별적 고정관념의 타파는 결코 여성만을 위한 것이 아니라, 여성과 함께 살아가는 남성도 포함된다. 그리하여 진정한 의미의 남성과 여성의 결합과 조화가 가능할 것이라 생각한다.

• 분석과 대안
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.201-227
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• 2023

The purpose of this study is to examine how France became a representative country for far-right European populism, despite its tradition of tolerance. To achieve this goal, we examine, first, how the concept of tolerance developed in France after the 16th century. Through this process, we find that within the political system, the tolerance of the liberal tradition met with universalism, a republican value, and developed into an 'institutional tolerance' that allowed 'differences' from an authoritarian perspective rather than on an equal level. This 'assimilation' policy, reflecting a 'patriarchal' and 'oppressive' institutional tolerance, formed the keynote of the immigration policy of the 20th century, which continued until the 1980s, and shows that the French government did not take practical steps for the social integration of immigrant groups under the republican universal value that does not allow 'differences.' The government came up with an 'integration' immigration policy that embraces cultural 'differences' only after encountering problems with immigrant groups. However, this was not enough to calm the antipathy towards immigrants in French society and the discontent of immigrants in French society. Also, universalism, a republican value with deep roots in France, prevented the French immigration policy from escaping its assimilationist nature even in the 21st century. In the midst of this, far-right parties have gained power by promoting xenophobic sentiments centered on immigration problems. Finally, this study also looks at how far-right populism is currently changing the French political environment.

• 영어영문학
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• 제56권6호
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• pp.1281-1294
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• 2010

In Written on the Body, by creating the narrator's ungendered and unsexed identity, Winterson makes her text open to the reader's assumption of the narrator's sexual and gender identity. Thus, this novel has been read, on the one hand, as a lesbian text by those who assume that the narrator is a female and, on the other hand, as a suspicious text colluding with patriarchal and heterosexual values by those who define the narrator as a male. Those readings of the narrator as one of either sex/gender, however, demonstrate how (academic as well as general) readers have been accustomed to the gender-based reading habits in which textual meanings are dichotomously arranged along the lines of sex and gender of characters. Challenging those dualistic "gendered" readings, this paper reads Winterson's Written on the Body as a queer text which interrogates, troubles, and subverts the heterosexual concepts of narrative, desire, and body without reducing the narrator's identity to the essentialist sex and gender system. More specifically, this paper examines how the narrator's 'un-/over-' determined sexual and gender identity queers the narrative structure of author-character-reader; how the narrator's queer (fluid) desire is passing and traveling across categorical contours of (homo-/hetero-) sexual desires; how Winterson challenges the concept of a coherent body and queers the concept of body as a hermeneutic text with myriad textual grids which are not coherently mapped by power but randomly inscribed by nomadic desires.

• 대중서사연구
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.349-383
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• 2019

본 논문은 제니스 래드웨이의 『로맨스 읽기: 여성, 가부장제와 대중문학』(1984)을 중심으로 로맨스 연구의 의미와 과제에 대해 고찰했다. 이 책은 문화연구와 문학연구를 조합하여 여성독자들의 로맨스 독서의 의미를 고찰하고 로맨스 텍스트를 분석한 점에서 지금까지 대표적인 로맨스 연구서로 손꼽히고 있다. 제니스 래드웨이는 여성독자공동체를 대상으로 로맨스 독서 행위의 의미를 실증적으로 고찰했다. 즉, 설문조사와 심층면담을 토대로 여성들의 로맨스 독서가 부담스러운 가부장적 일상으로부터 벗어나 탈출의 해방감을 추구하며 정서적 구원을 안겨주는 '보상문학'이라는 점을 밝혀냈다. 여성들이 선호하는 로맨스는 '만남 → 시련 → 회복 → 해피엔딩'이라는 4단계와 13개의 서사단위로 구성되어 있다. 또한 항상 미성숙한 여주인공의 정체성 불안에서 출발하여 여성의 능력으로 배려 깊은 남자로 변모한 남자주인공에 의해 여성의 본래적 가치를 인정받는 행복한 결합으로 끝을 맺는 공식을 유지한다. 따라서 로맨스는 '여성 유토피아적 판타지'를 추구하며 여성을 가부장제와 화해시키는 역할을 담당한다는 것이다. 당대 페미니스트 비평가들은 이런 주장에 대해 신랄하게 비판했다. 그러나 로맨스독서는 '여성적 읽기'이며, 로맨스는 여성의 삶과 가부장제의 함수관계를 그린 문학이라는 점을 공유한다. 다만 누구의 관점으로 볼 것인가, 여성적 유토피아의 판타지가 무엇인가에 관한 관점의 차이를 보일 뿐이다. 최근 들어 여성들의 삶의 조건과 여성독자들의 의식과 상상력이 빠르게 변화하고 있다. 이에 따라 여성 유토피아적 판타지도 이전과 현격하게 달라지고 있다. 그럼에도 가부장적 체제 내 여성의 삶은 여전히 모순적이며, 여성들의 모험적 상상력은 서브컬쳐와 같은 대안공간에서 펼쳐지고 있다. 이런 점에서 로맨스란 무엇인가, 아울러 로맨스 연구의 의미와 과제는 무엇인가라는 질문은 여전히 우리에게 남겨진 숙제이다.