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Corporeality of Female Workers Who Worked for Light Industry in the 1970’s

Kim joo hee 1

1성균관대학교

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The aim of this study is to consider body discourse’'s sociocultural ideology through corporeality of female workers who worked for light industry in the 1970s. Repeatability and deviance are characteristic movement of light industry female worker’'s bodies. Corporeality in repeatability movement is firstly disciplined bodies. When we read essays of women workers, we easily understand their disciplined bodies on working process, for example, exercising of their fingers, knees etc for running working machine. Second is competition bodies with other workers. To getting paid for competition with other female workers, from time to time, different color of clothes are reward of their working grade. In company women workers are compelled in one color uniforms. Third is neglected bodies. Industrialized women workers’'s working place need disappeared sexuality of female workers’'s bodies for working efficiency. Nevertheless women workers expanded autonomy and solidarity in their company’'s dormitory and shared consciousness through excluding their bodies sexuality. Women worker’'s corporeality, deviance movement has been expressed in factory’'s picnic bus. In small picnic bus they showed their disaggregated bodies thorough acting of dancing, singing, drinking are only escape road to themselves. Sometimes women workers’'s body movement turned into political bodies. For example, occasionally when female workers went on a hunger strike for better treatment, they undressed their clothes in front of police line.

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