Korean Philosophy in Women’s Life

Kim Hye Sook, etc

Domestic and Foreign University Students and General Persons

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Humanities

Beginner

This lecture broadly defines "Korean philosophy" as various ways and forms of thinking that people have made while living in Korea. Women are indispensable in understanding Korean philosophy. Like men, women have lived as individuals with a Korean mindset throughout their lives. The goal of this course is to examine the aspects of Korean philosophy through the various ways of thinking and forms revealed in the lives of Korean women.

1. Students can understand the aspects of Korean philosophy revealed through various aspects of Korean women.

2. Students can understand the aspects of Korean philosophy revealed in Korean women's studies and artworks.

3. Students can understand the philosophical ideas of Korean women that have been revealed differently depending on the times and topics.

Week 1

Women’s Studies Methodology

1. Necessity of methodological thinking

2. Feminism and Perspective Issues

3. The Life of Women and the Problems of Korean Philosophy

Week 2

Women Teaching Women

1. Neo-Confucian gender norms and 'becoming a woman'

2. Women's knowledge of Confucianism

3. Women's experience and women's knowledge in life

Week 3

A Woman Becomes a Saint

1. Kang Jeong Il-dang, a female Confucian scholar

2. How did Jeong Il-dang become a female Confucian scholar?

3. The philosophical background of the birth of a female Confucian scholar

Week 4

A Woman Domes to Be Free

1. Heo Nan-seol-heon's literary talent and family environment

2. Living as a woman in Joseon

3. The Poetry World of Henan Seol-heon

Week 5

Women Standing at the Center of Power

1. Royal Women's Power

2. Powerful Gender Power and Dialectic of Family Feelings

3. The abolition of incomplete gender power and family sentiment

Week 6

Women Singing

1. The relationship between Chinese characters and women as defined by the Confucian patriarchy

2. Women's poetry: A counterargument to Confucian sexual discourse

3. Women's poetry: Differences in Confucian family system and ethics

Week 7

Women Painting, Women Drawing

1. An object woman

2. Women who worked as subjects

3. The intelligence of women in modern and contemporary times

Week 8

Women Producing Knowledge

1. Do you know Yibing Huh Gak?

2. Composition and research method of "Gyuhap General Book"

3. The Knowledge World of the "Gyuhap General Book"

Week 9

Living as a Woman

1. Confucian Ceremony: The Life of a Confucian Woman

2. Women's right to volunteer and becoming a son and mother

3. Women as the subject of moral rites

Week 10

In the New Era, Becoming a New Woman

1. The Emergence of New Women in the Colonial Period

2. The development of new women's discourse and social stigma against new women

3. The consumption culture of new women and new women as consumers