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@article{ART001623072},
author={Ryu Jeong Wol},
title={Ideal Women and Men in Traditional Stories and Discourses on Marriage},
journal={The Research of the Korean Classic},
issn={1226-3850},
year={2011},
number={24},
pages={391-422}

TY - JOUR
AU - Ryu Jeong Wol
TI - Ideal Women and Men in Traditional Stories and Discourses on Marriage
JO - The Research of the Korean Classic
PY - 2011
VL - null
IS - 24
PB - The Research Of The Korean Classic
SP - 391
EP - 422
SN - 1226-3850
AB - This paper studies about ideal gender types which are expressed in traditional marriage. For the purpose I focus on marriage stories and discourses. In Korean old stories, people test to choose new family members(intentional test stories). Test for women is objective but for men subjective. In other stories, father or male relative meets a man or a woman, who becomes their new members later(accidental encounter stories). When he meets accidentally a young man or woman, he finds one good feature of him(her) and determine to marry him(her) with his daughter(son). At this moment, female's feature would be likely to be judged by one concrete behavior but male's feature to be judged by an abstract aspect. In the latter the subject of judgement has “Jinjigam[知人之鑑], good judgment of human nature” It is believed that one thing about a woman can say a lot about the rest of her. but one thing about a man can say nothing about the rest of him. In the discourses about marriage, a lot of standards to be applied for bride, phrenology for fecundity, writings to train daughters[Gnyeseo 戒女書]. But there are no phrenology or writings for groom. This imbalance of information to choose women and men means the difference of ideal gender types in traditional marriage. Aftter that, I read the imbalance with the code of substance and function and explain the reason why the information on ideal male feature is not enough in the discourse.
KW - ideal women;ideal men;test;feature;stories about marriage;discourses about marriage;substance;function;Jinjigam[知人之鑑].
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Ryu Jeong Wol. (2011). Ideal Women and Men in Traditional Stories and Discourses on Marriage. The Research of the Korean Classic, 24, 391-422.

Ryu Jeong Wol. 2011, "Ideal Women and Men in Traditional Stories and Discourses on Marriage", The Research of the Korean Classic, no.24, pp.391-422.

Ryu Jeong Wol "Ideal Women and Men in Traditional Stories and Discourses on Marriage" The Research of the Korean Classic 24 pp.391-422 (2011) : 391.

Ryu Jeong Wol. Ideal Women and Men in Traditional Stories and Discourses on Marriage. 2011; 24 : 391-422.

Ryu Jeong Wol. "Ideal Women and Men in Traditional Stories and Discourses on Marriage" The Research of the Korean Classic no.24(2011) : 391-422.

Ryu Jeong Wol. Ideal Women and Men in Traditional Stories and Discourses on Marriage. The Research of the Korean Classic, 24, 391-422.

Ryu Jeong Wol. Ideal Women and Men in Traditional Stories and Discourses on Marriage. The Research of the Korean Classic. 2011; 24 391-422.

Ryu Jeong Wol. Ideal Women and Men in Traditional Stories and Discourses on Marriage. 2011; 24 : 391-422.

Ryu Jeong Wol. "Ideal Women and Men in Traditional Stories and Discourses on Marriage" The Research of the Korean Classic no.24(2011) : 391-422.