대한제국 시기 가부장제와 여성생활

The Study of the Patriarchy and the Women's Lives in Daehan Empire Period

While the Daehan Empire enacted some social reforms to eliminate the accumulated feudal contradictions, the imperialist invasion of world powers were accelerated, especially Japan seeking to colonize the Daehan Empire. Under these circumstances modernization in official and private sectors proceeded to such extent that women's lives changed dramatically for the first time in Korean history. I researched the historical relation between society and women by studying the patriarchy in the Daehan Empire from the viewpoint of ideology and establishments and by scrutinizing corpus related women's real lives. At that time there were various women's problems: women's education, the relationship between marriage and family, and family life. I tried to grasp and explain the relating aspects between women's social activities and traditional patiarchy. Though the traditional feudal patriarchy was collasping, the transition to modern society was not easy. Feudal conventionalities still dominated moral values and social practices. At the same time efforts to overcome these practices were made. The foremost demand of that period was the development of national power and children's education for future. So, women's problems were not taken into consideration from the feminist point of view. Women's education was focused on producing good wives and wise mothers(賢母良妻) in a modern sense. It was recognized that women's position in the feudal patriarchy was the worst obstacle to the progress of history and the creation of new society. As a concequence, all of society became aware of women's role in society-women can, and should take part in the social activities as a citizen. That was the greatest of all social changes and the highest in the development of consciousness during the Daehan Empire. That also influenced social change and development. Owing to the limitation of awareness of women's problems, Korean feudal patriarchy was transformed, not destroyed. Women's movement had these difficulties, and yet for one reason or another, women were individually devoted to social movement. Women's involvement in the social movement in that period founded the succeeding women's movement-it has historical significance in women's movement. But they were not watched the especial women's rather than in the point of growing the national power for the nation's future. Of course the new consciousness of the women, that was the women were the lawful citizens and they performed their rules as possible as they could, broke out violently. The contemporary opinion and recognition was for it generally.