FROM JEALOUSY TO VIOLENCE: MARRIAGE, FAMILY, AND CONFUCIAN PATRIARCHY IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY KOREA

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author={ Kim Jisoo M. },
title={FROM JEALOUSY TO VIOLENCE: MARRIAGE, FAMILY, AND CONFUCIAN PATRIARCHY IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY KOREA},
journal={Acta Koreana},
issn={1520-7412},
year={2017},
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pages={91-110},
doi={10.18399/acta.2017.20.1.005},
url={http://dx.doi.org/10.18399/acta.2017.20.1.005}

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AB - During the Koryŏ (918–1392) to Chosŏn (1392–1910) transition, constructing a patrilineal society was one of the state’s primary goals. From the early Chosŏn, the state implemented the Confucian style of marriage and allowed men to have one legitimate wife from the same social status and take lower status women as concubines. As women of different status came to live in the same household, the new marriage practice generated tensions between wives and concubines. The concubinage system was already an intrinsic part of the social fabric in Korean history, but the meaning of conjugal relations shifted during the Chosŏn period and the tension between women of different status became more visible. By using marriage as a site, the aim of this article is to examine how the state intervened in intimate domains such as emotions, sexuality, and familial virtue and how the state emphasized and regulated gendered emotions such as jealousy to embrace Confucian patriarchal values in the domestic space. By examining wives’ jealousy that often led to brutal violence against concubines, this article unveils the cultural meaning of jealousy between partners in the context of Confucian patriarchal and hierarchical society. Furthermore, it demonstrates the power dynamics in conjugal relations and the vulnerability of concubines and how the Confucian style of marriage manifested tensions among Confucian ideals, the law, and social practice.
KW - marriage, Confucian patriarchy, jealousy, wife, and concubine
DO - 10.18399/acta.2017.20.1.005
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.18399/acta.2017.20.1.005
ER -

Kim Jisoo M. (2017). FROM JEALOUSY TO VIOLENCE: MARRIAGE, FAMILY, AND CONFUCIAN PATRIARCHY IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY KOREA. Acta Koreana, 20( 1), 91- 110.

Kim Jisoo M. . 2017, “FROM JEALOUSY TO VIOLENCE: MARRIAGE, FAMILY, AND CONFUCIAN PATRIARCHY IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY KOREA”, Acta Koreana, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 91-110. Available from: doi:10.18399/acta.2017.20.1.005

Kim Jisoo M. “FROM JEALOUSY TO VIOLENCE: MARRIAGE, FAMILY, AND CONFUCIAN PATRIARCHY IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY KOREA” Acta Koreana 20.1 pp. 91-110 (2017): 91.

Kim Jisoo M. . FROM JEALOUSY TO VIOLENCE: MARRIAGE, FAMILY, AND CONFUCIAN PATRIARCHY IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY KOREA Acta Koreana [Internet]. 2017; 20( 1), : 91-110. Available from: doi:10.18399/acta.2017.20.1.005

Kim Jisoo M. . “FROM JEALOUSY TO VIOLENCE: MARRIAGE, FAMILY, AND CONFUCIAN PATRIARCHY IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY KOREA” Acta Koreana 20, no.1 (2017): 91-110. doi: 10.18399/acta.2017.20.1.005

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FROM JEALOUSY TO VIOLENCE: MARRIAGE, FAMILY, AND CONFUCIAN PATRIARCHY IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY KOREA

Acta Koreana

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2017, vol.20, no.1, pp.91 - 110

DOI : 10.18399/acta.2017.20.1.005

발행기관 : 계명대학교 한국학연구원

연구분야 : 기타인문학

Kim Jisoo M. ¹

¹George Washington University

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초록

During the Koryŏ (918–1392) to Chosŏn (1392–1910) transition, constructing a patrilineal society was one of the state’s primary goals. From the early Chosŏn, the state implemented the Confucian style of marriage and allowed men to have one legitimate wife from the same social status and take lower status women as concubines. As women of different status came to live in the same household, the new marriage practice generated tensions between wives and concubines. The concubinage system was already an intrinsic part of the social fabric in Korean history, but the meaning of conjugal relations shifted during the Chosŏn period and the tension between women of different status became more visible. By using marriage as a site, the aim of this article is to examine how the state intervened in intimate domains such as emotions, sexuality, and familial virtue and how the state emphasized and regulated gendered emotions such as jealousy to embrace Confucian patriarchal values in the domestic space. By examining wives’ jealousy that often led to brutal violence against concubines, this article unveils the cultural meaning of jealousy between partners in the context of Confucian patriarchal and hierarchical society. Furthermore, it demonstrates the power dynamics in conjugal relations and the vulnerability of concubines and how the Confucian style of marriage manifested tensions among Confucian ideals, the law, and social practice.

키워드

marriage, Confucian patriarchy, jealousy, wife, and concubine

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