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Women's lives of Sung Haeeung's family in 18th~19th Century

  • The Research of the Korean Classic
  • 2011, (24), pp.293-324
  • Publisher : The Research Of The Korean Classic
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature > Korean classic prose

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ABSTRACT

This paper is one of the tries to reconstruct women's daily lives in Chosun dynasty. In this paper, Sung Haeeung's view of womanhood and women's lives of his family are described in three items of education, marriage and death. He said that women should ordinarily read the Confucian classics and history. Women of the family were educated like the sons of the family. The average age of the women's marriage was around 20 and it seems that they didn't get married early. The men of his family lived in their in-law's home or they were economically helped from their in-law's home. So they were economically and emotionally intimate with their in-laws or relatives. The women remained faithful to her husband when he died but didn't follow him to the grave.

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