Abstract

During the Lee dynasty, because of fact that leaving written forms of literal works to the public is considered as a negative conception among men as well as women, it is quite rare to find a collection of women writers' works so that there is one or two existing. Through analyzing literal works done by Kang, Jung-il-dang, this study aims to closely examine possible reasons how some collections of women writers' works were able to be published during the second period of Lee dynasty where the theory of Sung-Confucianism was in critical rigidity. Ironically, it is obtained by women as they regularly start studying Sung-Confucianism in accordance with the strong perception on the equal rights for both sexes. What the woman writer Kang, Jung-il-dang felt negatively against elements of gender discrimination in Lee Dynasty was discrimination on education. Therefore, she pointed out the unreasonableness of the fact that women had to be excluded from being educated and she then, demanded its adjustment while studying Sung-Confucianism. Some remarkable literal characteristics of the study of Jae Do Ron in her works elicited positive reputation about women literature from men, and they led the wider flow of publishment of a series of work-collections done by women writers. Consequently, although it is not always correspondent the process of women's self-consciousness to the process of de-Confucianism, through these facts, senses of self-conscious and rights of Yang-Ban women should possibly be taken into consideration as part of inherent motivation for the women-modernization movement based on the conception of equality for both sexes.