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Comparison of Socio-cultural Meaning on the Power Suit Expressed in American and Korean Feminism Films

미국과 한국 페미니즘 영화에 나타난 파워 수트의 사회문화적 의미 비교

  • Yoon, Jin-Young (Dept. of Clothing & Textiles, Graduate School, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Yim, Eun-Hyuk (Dept. of Clothing & Textiles, Sungkyunkwan University)
  • 윤진영 (성균관대학교 대학원 의상학과) ;
  • 임은혁 (성균관대학교 의상학과)
  • Received : 2012.04.12
  • Accepted : 2012.05.17
  • Published : 2012.09.30
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Abstract

In the $21^{st}$ century, woman leaders are able to influence society through improved social status and economic power. From 1980-1990 there was a rapid global social development of feminism and improved media perceptions. The progression of this process is reflected by female characters in feminism films that included a new dress style. The power suit emerged in the U.S.A of the 1980s, as a dress code that showed the workplace uniform of a professional woman and spread to Korea as an influential style. This study defines the different and similar aspects in the development of women's position and the role involved in a structural background through a comparison of the socio-cultural meaning of the power suit expressed in American and Korean feminism films. For analysis, this study chose American films in the 1980s and Korean films in 1990s that fulfilled elements about feminism films. Subsequently in American feminism films, the power suit expressed an equal authority with men, strategic use of femininity according to task type, and a dissipation of symbolic effects like a rich look. In Korean feminism films, the power suit expressed an end of femininity like female transvestite, independent female images with the masculinization of appearance, and a mix of new and traditional styles.

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