一般論文] 가정잡지 『신계』(1921)와 강경 지역의 여성 담론

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The family magazine Shingye(1921) was created in the Ganggyeong area, a modern commercial city during the Japanese colonial period. It is significant in that it is not a women’s discourse centered on Gyeongseong, but a women’s magazine where local voices can be heard. Namsunmunhwasa, which published Shingye, was the local publisher by teachers including the principal of Mandong School, a local Christian private school. It had an agenda that attention should be paid to the modernization and education of women for the development of the country. Shingye argues that women must develop themselves based on the theory of modernization for good mothers, good families, and good countries. From this point of view, women are not imagined as subjects, but as mothers and wives. In the articles or novels in Shingye, there are only Gisaeng outside the family. Although new women began to appear as school teachers, reporters, and writers in 1921, the women of Shingye became Gisaeng, falling into luxury and pleasure, or shedding tears of lamenting themselves as Gisaeng. This shows that the education and the modernization of women in Shingye are thoroughly imagined only in the family and home as in the early modern period. Although there is a time difference of about 20 years, Shingye has not escaped from the instrumental discourse on women’s education. In Shingye, modernity appears rarely on the pages. This supports the fact that the values demanded by Shingye for women are traditional women’s virtues. Only as long as it is a wise mother and wife, the modernization of women is possible.