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A study on the way of gender discourse of the Korean novels in postwar period - focused on the gender ideology of modern subjects -

  • 인문논총
  • 2013, 31(), pp.255-280
  • Publisher : Institute for Human studies, Kyungnam University
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Published : June 30, 2013

Eunjung Kim 1

1경남대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study considered the way of gender discourse of the Korean novels in postwar period, dividing those of male writers and female writers. I studied how the ‘sex’ of the female characters are treated in those novels, that is, the way of the gender ideology's operating on the female characters in postwar period. The way of gender discourse can be stereotyped, so the main female characters are classified into prostituted women and the women who express sexual desires of themselves. I considered the hierarchy and dualization of gender ideology from the attitudes of male writers and female writers treating these characters. I found out that even the female character being treated as 'woman of redemption' is completely ruled out by the modern male subjects, if she is a prostituted woman. And I confirmed the gender ideology of modern subjects through the fact that the novel of which the female character being evaluated as a subjective figure by female writers also ended tragically.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.