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초록

The study explores a new approach to women’s political participation from the point of literary public sphere. It argues that the existing approaches to women’s political participation need to be enlarged and diversified because they tend to focus only on public and official realm in the participation. Women often take part in politics through a variety of individual and private forms of activities. In the modern Korean society where women’s participation in public life was strongly restricted, women’s activities in everyday life have complex meaning. This study looks into women’s reading and writing activities in the colonized period by Japan from the perspective of literary public sphere and points out that their activities are a type of cultural resistance against the existing social order and norm. Women raised their voices, overtly and/or covertly, against the patriarchal system by reading and writing, which in turn formed their own circle in the literary area. It suggests that these activities can be considered as participation in politics and should be included in the arena of women’s political participation.

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