코르셋이 주는 여성 인체변화와 상징성에 관한 연구 = A Study on the Females Appearance Transformation and the Symbolism for the Corset

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Corset has been used as a tool to tighten the waist of females for long, and it was used as a symbol of incantational meaning and social position indication from Crete period to Roman period. As medieval period started, corsage started to express the curve of human body of females. And, since the beginning of the 15th century and the 16th century, as full-scale corset was used, basquine and corps-pique on which baleen, wood and iron were put as basque were worn. After that, in the 17th century and the 18th century, wearing corps-baleine that the baleen of curve and straight line was used enabled chest to seem to be rich all the more, and corset was designed into the form to be comfortable for human body through endless progress. In the period of Crinoline and Bustle, corset to fit human body well and to be comfortable for acting appeared and the modernization of corset came to be made gradually through more rational composition method of corset.
This corset emphasized feminity than humaneness as a tool which has oppressed the body of women from ancient period. Women have been recognized as an obedient and weak existence from the bondage of this corset. While powerful centralized reign treated the right of men favorably and regared women as sexual existence, the relation between men and women was recognized as the relation between up and down which is the relation between command and obedience, and women wore corset, submitting to bodily pain for fitting body to the standard of beauty which originated from the taste of supreme authority of ruling class. On the contray, in the period to recognize the right of women socially, it menas that the coercion for slim waist
was small. At the end of the 18th century when illuminism was predominant and in the early stage of the 20th century which was the period of reform to resist royal authority, the interest for ant waist was small. As women started to play the important role for society after World War I, new recognition for the position of women appeared, and corset was not the bond to oppress women but it came to be converted to a selective tool.