여성과 힘 사화의 극복, 여성의 숨은 힘 = Overcoming the calamity of Literati, the hidden power of the woman

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this paper is to clarity the woman`s power to overcome the disaster that wipes out a whole family . The woman`s family met the calamity of literati in 1721(Sinim sahwa-신임사화) and there were many persons involved the calamity. So many members of the family were punished, too. The key figures of the calamity of literati were Lee Yimyeong, Lee Keonmyeong, Kim Changjib, Cho Taechae. They were called the four great ministers of Noron(노론). The woman of the great ministers of Noron did their important role as a daughter, a wife, a daughter- in- law and a mother. Some woman let the successor of the family escape and hold fake funeral. Some woman wrote a letter of plea to the king to save her father who was involved the calamity. Some woman labored for the dispossessed family to barely manage to feed themselves. Some woman took the body and had the funeral alone. The other woman cursed her husband`s family who had differing political opinions and was banished. Though they used different methods, they took their roles to overcome the crisis of the home. The royal man who wrote these women approved their potential by defining their source of the power as a learning. The royal man thought that these women could amend the situation because they had intellectual qualities. They empowered social and political meaning to the woman. They didn`t limit the woman`s power and doing as a private level. Even though the woman exerted their hidden power to conquer hardships, they didn`t get credit for their contributions. So, their services and power had to be hidden during a long time. I tried to add a new meaning to the neglected woman who took the important role to conquer the hardship. The woman who I concerned about in this study stood up to the external hardship by using every possible means and expedients. The woman sometimes committed immoral and illegal doing. However, the narrative wrote and praised their doing without doubt because they had political bias. I couldn`t catch between the narrative`s view and the woman`s situation in the field of the political positions.