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This study is aimed to figure out the way Yoon Hee-sun perceived the real situations of the society under the Japanese ruling and responded to overcome difficulties in the process of anti-Japanese independence movement. Yoon Hee-sun played an important role as a female activist of the righteous army movement in Kangweon-do and Manchuria. She was a daughter-in-law of Yu Hong-seok, wife of Yu Jae-won, and mother of Yu Don-sang. Three generations of her family had taken the lead in anti-Japanese independence movement. The Yus belonged to a school of ‘Hwaseo’ and devoted their lives to the independent movement based on the thought of 'wijung chuksa sasang', which means 'defending orthodoxy and rejecting heterodoxy'. They desired to go back to the past and recover as it was rather than building a new society. Therefore, their fights against Japan's invasion were not for establishing a modern nation-state but for recovering the royal authority of the existing order. Both her maiden home and her in-laws belonged to a school of ‘Hwaseo’ and Yoon Hee-sun couldn't go out of the boundary of her family background. Also, the motivation of her participation in the righteous army movement was based on the confucian values such as loyalty to the king, filial piety and fidelity. In particular, she possessed a high level of self-awareness not only as a wife but also as a woman. On the basis of this, she faced up to reality. For the more effective way of revolt against Japan’s invasion, she determined to change the perception of women identified only as a wife of somebody. She thought her duty was to enlighten women through 'education'. As a result, manifestoes and songs supporting the righteous army movement were used as a powerful method.

한국어

본 논문은 강원도와 만주 일대에서 활동한 여성독립운동가 윤희순이, 항일투쟁 과정에서 현실을 어떻게 인식했으며, 그에 따른 대응은 어떠했는지 살피는 데에 목적이 있다. 윤희순은 시아버지 유홍석과 남편 유제원, 그리고 아들 유돈상까지 3대가 독립운동에 앞장선 집안의 며느리이자 아내이자 어머니였다. 화서학파였던 고흥 유씨 일가는 ‘衛正斥邪’ 사상을 바탕으로 독립운동에 투신했다. 이들은 새로운 세계의 건설보다는 아름다운 과거로의 복귀와 복원을 염원했고, 의병을 일으킨 것 또한 근대적 국민국가 건설을 위해서가 아니라 왕을 중심으로 구축된 기존의 질서를 회복하기 위해서였다. 친정과 시가 모두 화서학파였던 윤희순 역시 그들과 동일한 눈으로 현실을 바라보았고, 적극적으로 의병활동에 참여하게 된 동인 역시 충·효·열과 같은 중세적 가치였다. 특히 집안의 안사람이자 여성으로서의 명확한 자의식을 갖고 있었고, 그것을 바탕으로 현실의 문제에 대응했다. 그녀는 보다 효과적인 독립투쟁을 위해서는 안사람으로 대변되는 여성들의 인식을 변화시키는 것이 중요하다고 판단했다. 이러한 판단 하에 그녀는 ‘교육’을 통한 ‘계몽’을 자신의 과제로 인식했고, 이 과정에서 의병가와 포고문 등은 효과적인 수단으로 활용되었다.