여성의 이혼경험을 통해 본 가부장적 결혼 연구 = (A) Study on Patriarchal Marriage Through Women's Divorce Experiences

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Even though the rate of divorce has increased in these days, most of the attitudes and points of view on the divorce are owed to the routine functionalism camp. That is, they regard divorce as a deviance or a sociopathologic phenominon. They adhere to the dichotomy such that marriage is normal and divorce abnormal. They are interested in the divorce as a phenominon, not the experiences of the divorced.
This thesis is stirred by the serious critique of the methods and the views which have dominated the existing studies on divorce. In this thesis, I focus on the experiences of the divorced. I approach the divorce as varying process. The basic point of view is that the divorce is not an independent accident seperated with marrige but consists of some point of matrimonial continuum. It is a social construction which results from the situation that the marriage as institution and various dimensions of social structures are complicated with. Divorce should be regarded as the significant thing to not only the divorced themselves but also the married people, especially the most of women who evaluate the marriage in the central place of their lives.
This thesis aims at the reveal of their experiences on their standpoints, the destruction of the meanings in the relations of their lives and the social structure,leading to the reconstruction of the alternatives. I want to suggest a guideline or a map to help them to analyze their lives for themselves so that they can begin their life anew. Further what is found through their divorce experiences should be in turn the motives for the most married women to insight their lives in patriarchal marriage.
The targets of this study are those in mid-late 30s who had lived in marriage more than 5 years and also have child(ren). I use in-depth interviews as method to contact their lives deeply.
The contents are as followed;
Their lives who were passed through the divorce hold these characters. 1) The troubles and conflicts in marriage of the divorced are left to be unsolved, 2) The most women seem not to have proper interactions with their husbands, 3) To avoid the divorce, they pass through essentially passive process such as denial and avoidance, extreme patience and renunciation. They also do their best to continue desparate relations. 4) The more they want not to accept the divorce as their immediate question, the more they suffer and fall in desperate situation. 5) After divorce, they meet economic difficulties and the overt prejudice. Even though they achive the indepentence financially, their self-confidences are not followed in order. They unchangeblely want to make a normal family.
These characters are revealed to be inevitable residue resulted from the current institutions when the experiences are analyzed concerning with the social structure. 1) In the standardized patriarchal monogamy family, 2) the distorted gender roles based on the power relations 3) bear the female passiveness and dependence. 4 ) The mother who cannot leave the house of her husband is patient with unhappy marriage "because of her child(ren)". 5) Uniform normal /abnormal dichotomy dominates this abnormal marriage.
What makes the divorced unhappy turns out (to be) the dominant ideology which survives by reproducing current marriage institution through controlling divorce. But the divorced are not simply the victims of the institution but the survivals who discern the contradiction of patriarcal structure through their experiences. They can grow autogenious power. These women's lives can be subsistent potentiality to improve the current marriage institution. It means that they provide us with 1) the clue to challenge the false dichotomy which divide the relation of marriage and divorce into normal and abnormal, 2) to review marriage through divorce, and 3) to remake healthy marriage with confident divorce. At the end, this should be shared by each individual and the society.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 목차 = 1
• 논문개요 = 3
• Ⅰ. 들어가는 글 = 1
• Ⅱ. 연구의 시각 = 9
• 1. 연구 시각 = 9
• 1-1. 선행연구의 비판적 고찰 = 9
• 1-2. 여성해방적 연구 시각 = 17
• 2. 연구과정과 방법 = 29
• 2-1. 연구과정과 연구대상 = 29
• 2-2. 연구 방법 = 36
• Ⅲ. 과정으로서의 이혼 = 38
• 1. 이혼의 부인 = 42
• 1-1. 부정과 회피 = 42
• 1-2. 역할에 집착 = 46
• 1-3. 순교자적 연출 = 55
• 1-4. 체념과 포기 = 57
• 1-5. 합리화와 왜곡 = 59
• 2. 이혼, 경험의 의미 = 65
• 2-1. '죽음'으로서의 이혼 = 65
• 2-2. '당하기'와 '하기' = 68
• Ⅳ. 이혼 그 이후 = 79
• 1. '먹고 살 길'의 막힘과 트임 = 80
• 2. 지지집단의 부재 = 88
• 3. 강력한 통념의 벽 = 92
• 4. 외로움과 소외, 피해의식 = 98
• 5. 자기부정 = 99
• 6. 보이지 않는 미래 = 103
• 7. 잃은 것과 얻은 것 = 107
• Ⅴ. 이혼을 통해서 본 가부장적 결혼 = 119
• 1. 가부장적 결혼, 선택의 부재 = 120
• 2. 가부장적 결혼 속의 여성 = 123
• 2-1. 왜곡된 존재조건 = 125
• 2-2. 왜곡된 태도 = 128
• 3. 제도화된 모성 = 133
• 4. 가부장적 결혼의 유지기제 = 139
• 4-1. 정상/비정상의 획일적 이분법 = 139
• 4-2. 억압된 자들 사이의 가학성 = 141
• Ⅵ. 변화를 위한 제언 = 146
• 1. 이혼을 통해 결혼 다시보기-정상/비정상 논리에의 도전 = 146
• 2. 여성의 자기경험 읽기 = 151
• 3. 변화를 공식화 시키기 = 157
• 논문후기 = 161
• 참고문헌 = 163
• ABSTRACT = 169