성인초기 여성의 몸 이야기 경험에 관한 내러티브 탐구

Abstract

Objectives This study aims to understand the process of recognizing identity as a woman and reconstructing the identity through young adult women's storytelling of bodies and to explore the meaning of storytelling experience about the body.
 Methods For this purpose, narrative inquiry suitable for understanding the life experience and the meaning within the experience was performed. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, experience reports, and e-mails from August 2020 to March 2021 for two women in their late 20s who participated in a group counseling program that talked about their bodies, and focused on the three-dimensional points of time, sociality, and place according to the narrative inquiry method.
 Results The results of this study are as follows. First, through the experience of telling stories of the body, the research participants became accepted themselves that did not match the ideal femininity that they were previously unconscious or ashamed of. Second, the participants' relationship with others expanded by re-thinking the relationship with important others through their storytelling of the body and accepting others. Third, All participants were able to experience a change in their self-identity by interpreting their own story anew within the safe and receptive group.
 Conclusions This study understands how young adult women's body storytelling experience of the body affect their perception of gender identity, and demonstrates how repressed identities can be reconstructed through telling stories of the women’s body. Through this result, we confirmed the meaning of the experience of telling stories of the body as an opportunity for young adult women to accept themselves and as a scaffolding for growth. In addition, by revealing the meaning and value of the storytelling of the woman's body, we expect to provide a momentum that the storytelling of the woman's body, which was oppressed in a male-dominated society, will be dealt with in the stage of public discourses.