일제강점기 초등 ‘修身書’와 ‘唱歌書’에 서사된 性像

Abstract

This thesis aims at finding out how men and women were represented and what gender roles they took on, based on various gender images represented both in elementary school ‘moral’ books and ‘music’ books in time of Japanese colonial rule. Various images of people were represented in moral books while only a few people were sung in music books, and that most of them were men. Those men were patriots and soldiers known even to the foreign countries. To be more concrete, the ratio of men to women was 83: 17(%) in moral books and 63: 36(%) in music books respectively, though there were a slight difference according to book-publishing years. We can see that some women were described as an individual in moral books while they were described as minor, supplementary roles supporting male heroes. Even in case of little children, boys were sung in an image of future colonial personnel while girls were limited within the boundary of homes. Homes, a combination of men and women, were described as a harmonious unity. But they were also limited to a society under the rule of the Emperor, though each family are assembled into a community and further into a nation.