이 연구는 드라마 <산후조리원>에 나타난 과학적 모성의 재현을 통해 현재 한국사회 모성 이데올로기를 읽어내고자 하는 시도다. 드라마 <산후조리원>은 산후조리원을 과학적 모성을 극대화하는 공간으로 설정하여 어떤 엄마가 ‘좋은’ 엄마인지 보여준다. 과학적인 우수성을 강조한 모유수유와 같은 전문적인 육아법은 ‘과학’이라는 이름 아래 주어진 모성의 기본이다. 누가 더 과학적인 모성을 가지고 있으며, 이를 바탕으로 얼마나 아이를 위해 희생할 수 있는지가 조리원 내 계급 구분의 기준이 된다. 이 드라마는 최고급 산후조리원이라는 배경 설정을 통해 과학적 모성을 극적으로 재현했지만, 현실의 산후조리원 문화가 차용됐다는 점에서 한국사회 속 과학적 모성의 위상을 확인할 수 있었다. 과도하게 전문화되고 상품화된 모성 속에서 여성은 지속적인 자기개발을 통해 ‘완벽한 엄마’가 되어야 한다. 이러한 압박은 여성을 통제와 관리의 대상으로 만들며 모성 이데올로기를 강화한다.
This study tries to grasp a woman’s place in the discourse of scientific motherhood in Korea through the TV drama Birth care Center. The drama sets the birth care center as a place that maximizes scientific motherhood and forces women to become “perfect” mothers. The scientific superiority of breastfeeding, various professional methods of child-rearing, and supplementary products supporting rearing are regarded as the mother’s basic responsibilities in the birth care center, forced on mothers under the name of ‘Scientific Motherhood’. The basis for classifying the rank of mothers in the center is based on who has more 'Scientific Motherhood' and how much they can sacrifice for their child. This drama maximized the representation of scientific motherhood through setting of background, the finest birth care center. The real birth care center culture, child-rearing, and products used in this drama can show the status of scientific motherhood in Korea. Women should become ‘perfect mothers’ through continuous self-capacity-building in society where motherhood is excessively commercialized and standardized. This pressure puts women under control and makes them management objects. In this situation, it is necessary to think about where the identity of women as 'mother' exists.
This study tries to grasp a woman’s place in the discourse of scientific motherhood in Korea through the TV drama Birth care Center. The drama sets the birth care center as a place that maximizes scientific motherhood and forces women to become “perfect” mothers. The scientific superiority of breastfeeding, various professional methods of child-rearing, and supplementary products supporting rearing are regarded as the mother’s basic responsibilities in the birth care center, forced on mothers under the name of ‘Scientific Motherhood’. The basis for classifying the rank of mothers in the center is based on who has more 'Scientific Motherhood' and how much they can sacrifice for their child. This drama maximized the representation of scientific motherhood through setting of background, the finest birth care center. The real birth care center culture, child-rearing, and products used in this drama can show the status of scientific motherhood in Korea. Women should become ‘perfect mothers’ through continuous self-capacity-building in society where motherhood is excessively commercialized and standardized. This pressure puts women under control and makes them management objects. In this situation, it is necessary to think about where the identity of women as 'mother' exists.
