본 연구는 ‘제조업 생산직 여성들의 생존권 투쟁’을 주제로 1980년대 한국의 민중미술운동의 영향을 받으며 ‘노동자로서의 여성’이라는 측면을 여성의 시각에서 스스로 표현하고자 한 한국의 여성주의 미술운동의 시발점에 주목하였다. 같은 맥락에서 1990년대 이후 노동자로서의 여성의 노동활동을 다룬 영상작품들이 계속하여 한국여성영상작가에 의해 발표되고 있는데, 이는 1980년대 산업체의 여성 노동운동을 뿌리를 두고 전개되기 시작한 한국의 여성주의 문화운동의 한 특징이다. 이것은 제2차 세계대전 이후 독립 국가들이 겪었던 경제성장과 민주화의 정착이라는 근대화의 역사를 배경으로 한국 사회의 경제성장구조에서 자신의 ‘노동’의 가치를 인정받고자 한 여성들의 주체의식에서 비롯되며 서구권의 여성주의 문화운동과는 그 역사적 차이점을 갖는다.

This study is a theoretical research to investigate a methodological framework for analyzing the representation of women in fashion photography. For this study, this article attempts to develop a conceptual framework of the visual representation system through Lacan’s gaze theory, and analyze the representational aspects of women configured by gendered characteristics in the visual representation system. Structuralizing the visual representation system based on that theory, the gaze, the image/screen, and the subject of representation in the Lacan’s triangle diagram are replaced by the camera as the signifier of gaze, the representational image, and the seeing subject respectively. In the visual representation system, the camera creates a male-oriented visual field and structures a relationship of gendered power between male gaze as the seeing subject and female eye as an object to be seen. Looking into the representational aspects of women in this visual representation system structuralized by male gaze, women are represented in a way that reflects male desire through masquerade to comply with the patriarchal gaze, or differences that emphasizes the uniqueness and autonomy of women released from a patriarchal discourse. This study would be significant in that it provides theoretical basis for an analytic approach to the representation of women in fashion photography which we accept as a fixed one through the ideology of naturalization.

본 논문은 예이츠 시 속의 모드 곤, 마키에비치 백작 같은 여성민족주의자들의 모습을 다룬다. 영국의 지배에서 독립하기 위해 저항하는 민족주의자 모드곤은 예이츠가 사랑했고 수차 청혼하여 뜻을 이루지 못한 여인이다. 그녀는 예이츠의 시에서 중요한 인물이며, 본 논문은 아일랜드의 정치를 다른 시를 논한다. 또 한 명의 민족주의자 마키에비치 백작은 아일랜드 국회에 최초 여성 국회의원이 되었고, 그녀도 아일랜드 독립을 위해 투쟁했다. 예이츠는 그녀의 적극적인 정치 참여가 나타나는 시를 썼다.

This study explores gender images represented in the works of women artists from the Middle East, where male chauvinism is recognized to be more predominant than elsewhere. The artists included in this study such as Mona Hatoum, Shirin Neshat, Lida Abdul and Sigalit Landau are Post-Feminist generation of artists who were born in the Middle East but spent significant amount of time in the West. In addition, they were trained as artists under the influences of the Western Feminist Art. This particular group of female artists pays much attention to the ontological question of their identities rather than male/female inequality, and each artist represents men and women in the ways that can hardly be found in the works by women artists in the West. These artists not only connect gender identities to the socio-political geography of the Middle East but also deconstruct Western stereotypes of men and women from Arab world. The paper focuses on the way these women artists incorporate male/female vs. culture/nature dichotomies into their works to subvert the premises on which Western Feminism has been based and not only to cast light on women's freedom and their ontological conflicts but also to emphasize social suppression inflicted upon men. In such process, these artists resist stereotypical images of Middle Eastern men and women widely circulated in the mainstream media of the West.