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This study focuses on the formation of images and identities of "girl students" in 1920s. At that time, the girl students appeared as a social subject for the first time in the colonized Joseon and many discourses concerning "girl students" were also produced. I analyze the endowed images on the girl students through the magazine 『New Woman』which was a typical women's magazine in 1920s. The result was that the girl students were endowed with two contradictory images which are traditionally and habitually given to women. One is the image of "Maria" as a symbol of purity, and the other is that of "Eve" as a symbol of seduction. Those initial images
were fixed in the social identities of girl students through the interaction between the "wise mother and good wife" discourse and the school disciplines-especially dormitory rules- embodied in 1920s. That means that the relocation of gender had settled in early part of
the modern period in Korea.